A Critic at LargeIs Zionism’s Moral Crisis About Roads Not Taken—or Original Sin?Where Benjamin Moser replaces one story of Jewish exceptionalism with another, Omer Bartov shows what’s lost when polemic takes the place of history.By Isaac ChotinerSeptember 13, 2026A ship named for the founder of political Zionism brings Jewish immigrants to the Port of Haifa, in 1948. According to Moser, Zionism and Nazism were ideologically congenial, but his argument relies on distortions and elementary factual errors.Photograph by Robert Capa / ICP / MagnumSave this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyThe greatest cognitive dissonance in the debate over Gaza concerned...