Opinion An Israeli ‘Apartheid Wall’ at Duke University in 2019. Photo: Amy Rosenthal. With a title like “ The State of Israel vs The Jews review: fierce indictment of a rightward lurch ,” it is reasonable to think that The Guardian ’s December 19th review of Sylvain Cypel’s new book was written with the aim of shedding light on the development of Israeli political thought. However, this is how the piece opens: Sylvain Cypel’s new book is a violent indictment of the Jewish homeland, its growing embrace of apartheid and its closeness to some of the worst autocratic and similarly...