This book is a lot of mental masturbation that never really gets at the heart of what the title of his book indicates the author might explore. While there may be some interesting moments of philosophizing about what it means to be Jewish - is it a religion? a nation? - there is no political point to those questions. Given that he claims to be motivated by the then most recent Israeli massacre on Gaza, it seems quite odd that he doesn't engage with the repercussions of Jewish statehood.