Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
Text: Zionism, as Daniel Boyarin observed, did not counter antisemitic ideas about Jews, but rather "absorbed" them and offered a solution on their terms: a "normalizing" nation-state that would adopt the racial and gendered hierarchies of the European state.59 Rather than adopting the Zionist framework of Jewish dispersion, Magid offers an embrace of galut, suggesting that according to Jewish religious and ethical tradition, "home" is not a condition one can experience short of the return of the mashiach, the messiah. In other words, Magid replaces the question of a place with a question of time: to be a diasporist Jew is to yearn for not a homeland in the Levant, but rather a homeland in the world to come. Whether that be a secular socialist utopia or the religiously perfected world brought by the redeemed, Magid leaves for the reader.