In recent years the social and political Left’s preoccupation with denouncing Israel and its increasing support of the Boycott, Divest, Sanction (BDS) movement has proven particularly infelicitous, for the Left often predicates itself on ideals such as indigenous rights. Instead of seeing Zionism and Israel as the living embodiment of this hallowed leftist principle, many on the Left actively pillory Zionism and its successful culmination, Israel, variously with the following epithets: “colonial-settler state,” “apartheid state,” “ethnic cleansing “genocidal,” among others. The paradox in this is that Zionism should be a model movement and Israel should be a model state to all…