The State of Israel vs. the JewsBy: Sylvain Cypel PopMatters: Best Book of the Year From an award winning journalist, a perceptive study of how Israels actions, which run counter to the traditional historical values of Judaism, are putting Jewish people worldwide in an increasingly untenable position. More than a decade ago, the historian Tony Judt considered whether the behavior of Israel was becoming not only bad for Israel itself but also, on a wider scale, bad for the Jews.