I am an American Israeli and live in Israel and I hope I can find the book here. I would love to read Penslar's book, Zionism: An Emotional State, but I cannot use a credit card or similar types to buy the book. Hope I will find it in the English section of the bookstores here someday or I hope to order it through a bookstore. I have only seen interviews of Derek Penslar in videos so far and I have shared quotes with friends and on Facebook.
Quotes after the war broke include the following: “On the one hand, American Jews feel betrayed by the State of Israel because of the judicial overhaul that Netanyahu has led. There is a second type of betrayal – that of Jews on the American left, who feel betrayed by the progressive American left that has not been willing to condemn Hamas. This division could lead many Jews who before the war were within the progressive camp, to leave and to find themselves a new home in more moderate left circles.”
"One of the reasons for the current mobilization of American Jewish support is that American Jews are well aware of the dysfunctionality of the current government. In the Diaspora as much as in Israel there is a sense of a war being waged without a government. "
Derek Penslar