The unprecedented crimes of Oct. 7, when Muslim and Palestinian men butchered, gang raped, tortured, burned alive, shot 1200 Jewish women, men, children, babies and Holocaust survivors and other nationals and abducted 251 Jews and others to Gaza, were the worst crimes against the Jewish people since the Shoah.

Today we see an equally unprecedented wave of antisemitism and Jew hatred around the globe. Calls for killing Zionists appear on posters, stickers and are slogans like in Berlin, Naples, Paris, Madrid, London or New York City, to name but big European and American cities.

This books wants to give left-of center, left-wing and woke Zionists a public voice: Fighting antisemitism, including Islamism and secular anti-Zionism, while pursuing peace in the Middle East, against Jewish supremacism, racism, the occupation, war crimes during the War in Gaza and ultra-nationalism.

Zionism is not a given. We have to fight for its future in a democratic and Jewish state of Israel, alongside a future Palestinian state, as Resolution 181 from November 29, 1947 stated.