You wouldn’t know it now by observing the Israeli government and hearing the genocidal comments by high-ranking officials and politicians, but the Zionist project had a wing that advocated for peaceful coexistence with the Palestinian people and their Arab neighbors. Unfortunately, as Jeremy Kuzmarov writes in Covert Action Magazine, they were pushed aside and blacklisted by the militaristic wing of Zionism, inevitably leading to the very situation the peace advocates warned about.

Kuzmarov also writes about Martin Buber, a philosopher who advocated that Israel’s main objective should be peaceful coexistence with its neighbors, Albert Einstein, and Hannah Arendt as three other prominent “humanist Zionists” that have no living heirs with the possible exception of Noam Chomsky.