This book is part memoir, part historical documentation about the author’s experience with Israel advocacy, part educational essays and part reflections.

 

In the first part of the book, Rosenberg shares his experience trying to warn the deans of the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Medicine about the dangers of the anti-Zionist antisemitism that was unleashed by students and faculty. This ends with his public resignation after UBC failed to acknowledge these issues or even that antisemitism existed there. He later met with public figures, including the premier of his province and his Member of Parliament, and he testified in Ottawa, before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice, warning about the dangers that delegitimization, demonization and use of double standards against Israel and diaspora Jewry pose to Jews and to society as a whole.

 

The second part of the book includes educational essays that try to fill gaps in people’s knowledge and understanding of Zionism, the Arab-Israeli conflict, Palestinian nationalism and the ideologies that continue to fuel the conflict. He also answers questions about who the Jews are, what they believe and he addresses the problem of anti-Zionist Jews.

 

The third part of the book, “The Seven-Front Diaspora War,” answers the question: “Can the whole world be wrong?” It outlines the systemic anti-Israel and often antisemitic biases in the academy, the UN, NGOs, healthcare, the clergy, mainstream media and publishing.

 

In the final part of the book, he shares his experiences from a medical mission to Israel in March 2024, months after the massacre, as well as reflections about being Jewish and about the future.