Haaretz’s ideological mission: Dismantling the Jewish state
Less than three weeks before the Oct. 7 massacre, the Israeli daily Haaretz announced its break with the Zionist creed. Its editor-in-chief, Aluf Benn, penned a piece just before Yom Kippur eve, entitled “Jewish and…
Assessment
The piece argues that Haaretz newspaper has moved beyond standard left-wing critique to embrace an explicitly anti-Zionist editorial stance, citing the editor's pre-October 7 call to remove the word Jewish from Israel's definition. This frames the attack as a consequence of ideological erosion rather than intelligence failure. The key question is whether this perspective reflects an actual shift in Israeli media discourse or a polemical reading of a single editorial.