Anarchist hero Murray Bookchin was a Zionist who whitewashed Israeli colonialism and war crimes

Anarchist hero Murray Bookchin was a Zionist who whitewashed Israeli colonialism and war crimes

Benjamin Norton
12 min readJun 14, 2019

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Murray Bookchin is something of a saint in the anarchist community. His ideas on social ecology and what he termed “libertarian municipalism” and “communalism” have influenced generations of self-declared leftists, and he was frequently cited as an ideological force behind the anti-globalization and Occupy Wall Street movements.

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Benjamin Norton

Benjamin Norton is an independent journalist reporting on geopolitics. // Benjamín Norton es un periodista independiente informando sobre la geopolítica.