The essay discusses the book of "The Returns of Zionism: Myths, Politics, and Scholarship in Israel" by Gabriel Piterberg, noting that the book is blatantly anti-Zionist, and criticizes it from a Zionist point of view. It notes the scholarship involved in researching the book, and addresses it point by point. Topics include charges of ethnic cleansing on the part of Israel, contrasts of the thinkers Theodor Herzl and Barnard Lazare, and the thought of writer Hannah Arendt.