Philip Roth dramatized the critique that Israel deforms Jewish culture through militarism

Evidence

In Shylock, a character who turns out to be a Mossad agent describes Israel as “a Jewish country without a Jewish soul.” Fake Roth accuses Israel of, “in many, many terrible ways, deforming and disfiguring Jews as only our anti-Semitic enemies once had the power to do.” Yet another character, this one an old Palestinian friend of Roth’s (who some critics presumed to be based on the Palestinian American scholar Edward Said), describes diasporic Jewish culture as “all human, elastic, adaptable, humorous, creative” but declares that, in Israel, “all this they have replaced here with a stick!” — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 1004

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Mirror World thesis well — the diasporic vs. fortressed-tribal Jewish identity split mirrors the doubling between caring, elastic liberalism and fortress nationalism that Klein traces in the book.