Daniel Klein

Daniel Klein was born in Jerusalem and raised in a West Bank settlement within the religious-Zionist movement. He served as a tank commander in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) before undergoing a spiritual and political transformation that led him to renounce Zionism and traditional Judaism.Klein’s dissent is significant due to his insider perspective on the settler-colonial structures of the West Bank. His work, including his testimony My Freedom From Zionism, fits into broader patterns of decolonial Jewish dissent by highlighting the internal contradictions of religious nationalism and the realities of the occupation from a first-hand military and civilian perspective.