Nowhere Left to Go

A history of one of the most controversial and consequential geopolitical developments of the last fifty years: how Jews became allied with the global Right

Nowhere Left to Go is a book about the upending of Western political life. It tells the story of how Jews, once the icons of liberal and progressive causes, emerged as avatars for illiberal political parties across the world over the last half-century. At one time identified with the Left, Jews became associated with the Right. Drawing from previously unexamined archives, dozens of new interviews with leading economists, politicians, and religious figures, and his own vast knowledge of Jewish history, Eliyahu Stern offers an unprecedented account of how and why this shift happened. For the first time, he reveals the pivotal role Jewish encounters with American Christian nationalists, European identitarians, and Russian Eurasians have played in the Middle East, the United States, and Europe from the 1970s through October 7, 2023.

Urging a return to a realist politics and a more diverse set of alliances, Stern confronts the failures of right-wing Jewish alliances to ultimately answer the Jewish question. What political wilderness will Jews find themselves in, he asks, if both the Right and Left turn on them? And what steps might Jews take to ensure their well-being and security? Impeccably researched and judiciously observed, this book is an eye-opening account of Jewish life in an increasingly polarized political landscape.