A critique of the US university, a refusal to let stand an equivalence between Zionism and apartheid, a call for ethical solidarity, "Anti-Zionist" stands against the repressive mechanisms of the moment by explicating why it is that the Palestinian cause should be a universal project. Wide-ranging in its reflections, "Anti-Zionist" draws on a range of thinkers, from Edward Said to Judith Butler, from Hannah Arendt to Raja Shehadeh and Jacques Derrida, takes issue with a thinker such as Emmanuel Levinas, invokes the poetry of WB Yeats, turns in moments to personal reflection, and offers the concept ethical solidarity as a way of being in relation to the other that extends well beyond the current conflict in Gaza. Unstinting in its criticism of Zionism, this essay nonetheless cautions against the embrace of Hamas.