I'm giving a talk at this year's NAVSA conference on a panel called "Victorian Palestine and the Emergence of Zionism." I'm using it as an opportunity to reopen some ideas I talked about in chapter 2 of my first book, Literary Secularism, while updating the work with some more recent scholarship and especially in light of Judith Butler's 2012 book, Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism
For convenience, I posted my earlier chapter online here.
"Just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else." --Toni Morrison