Jews face discrimination in the American publishing industry and litmus tests about whether they support “Zionism,” according to a report Monday in theZionism is the belief that Israel has the right to exist and that Jews have the right to self-determination in their historic and spiritual homeland. It is a belief shared by the overwhelming majority of Jews around the world.
Whereas antisemitism in the literary world used to lurk in the shadows, according to the Jewish Book Council’s chief executive, Naomi Firestone-Teeter, since Oct. 7, it has become increasingly overt. “The fact that people have felt so proud and open about it is a different beast entirely,” she said. One of the most disturbing developments in this regard has been the frequency and contempt with which the word “Zionist” is now spit from people’s mouths in the United States.