Article by Sylvaine Bulle

Did you know that Israel was responsible for the climate crisis, and Hamas an inspiration for environmental activism? In this article, sociologist Sylvaine Bulle describes the strange juxtaposition of anti-Zionism and political ecology by Andreas Malm, the charming intellectual of radical ecological criticism.

Ecology, as well as anti-capitalist and communalist alternatives, are increasingly popular with activists and researchers committed to social criticism. These audiences sometimes refer to Gustave Landauer (1870-1919), Emma Goldman (1869-1940), Murray Bookchin (1921-2006), or even Martin Buber (1878-1965), Jewish thinkers who can be described as anarchists or libertarian socialists. Their utopian visions prefigured an agrarian socialism or an everyday communism, of which certain initiatives in France – such as the zones to be defended or the alternative and ecological collectives – are reactivations. Sylvaine Bulle returns to the Jewish origins of these reference authors; origins that remain silent by those who analyse and defend their thought.