Rooted Truth dismantles the modern libels hurled at Israel — “apartheid,” “colonialism,” “genocide” — and traces their lineage to the source. The slogans of Western elites did not arrive organically. They metastasized from Soviet propaganda, refined over decades, translated through academia, and laundered into the language of mainstream discourse.
The book restores the record. Israel is the return of an indigenous people to its homeland, documented in archaeology, law, and continuous presence. Zehavi works through the libels one by one — the legal definitions they abuse, the historical claims they distort, the present-day realities they invert. The register is forensic. The libel is what demands explanation. The historical reality does not.
Rooted Truth is for readers who are done arguing with people who have already decided. It functions as a reference work as much as an argument: the facts, the sources, and the counter-framings, compressed and citable.