Former Knesset Speaker and far-left figure Avrum Burg is set to publish a new book through Tucker Carlson Books, with a foreword written by American media personality and anti-Israel activist Tucker Carlson.
The book’s title, “Peace Is the Only Final Solution for Jews,” echoes the Nazi plan to exterminate European Jews during World War II. Burg is the book’s author; Carlson wrote the foreword and is not listed as co-author.
According to the publisher’s summary, Burg combines personal memoir, Jewish thought, and political experience in the book. He argues that institutions meant to ensure Jewish survival—including the military and the state—have become obstacles. The summary also presents the book as an attempt to examine the impact of Holocaust memory, the occupation, and the events of October 2023, and to propose a rights-based framework.
Burg on Israel: A Warning and Collaboration with Carlson
In an interview promoting the book, published on Carlson’s website, Burg described present-day Israel as a distortion of the Judaism he believes in. He later called it an illiberal democracy, citing among other things its treatment of Arabs under its control and non-Orthodox Jews.
The former Knesset Speaker and Jewish Agency chairman warned that if Israel continues on its current path, it risks losing the Jewish and moral justification for its existence—and added that this may have already happened. At the same time, he said the battle for Israel’s future is not lost, and presented his book as an attempt to offer an alternative path.
Burg addressed his collaboration with Carlson, saying he is proud of the joint project precisely because the two disagree on many issues.