Oct. 1—“How is it possible that a state founded in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust stands today credibly accused of perpetrating large-scale war crimes, forcible displacement of civilian populations, and crimes against humanity?… And how do we come to terms with the fact that Israel’s war of destruction was conducted with the wide support, laced with denial and indifference, of most of its own Jewish citizens?”

Omer Bartov, eminent genocide and Holocaust scholar, and citizen of Israel, has published a book, Israel: What Went Wrong?¹ which opens with those questions. With a national election October 27, it is more urgent than ever that these questions be posed to the voters of Israel, especially since the incumbent Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, whose regime is responsible for what most of the world sees as a genocide, is up for re-election. The “opposition” candidates are campaigning to remove him but are supporting the same Greater Israel colonial policies—including ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population of Gaza and the West Bank and annexing parts of southern Lebanon—making a mockery of their claims to be an alternative to the extremist apartheid regime currently in power.