Discussing his first visit to Israel, again in The Jewish Chronicle,
Jacobson said, "when I first went to Israel, I saw soldiers pushing
Palestinians around and thought, ‘I can’t stand this’. Then I’d
meet somebody in a bar saying what wonderful people the Palestinians are."
In the same interview, Jacobson stated his belief that the language
anti-Zionist Jews use is "pathological — I don’t need to know anything
about Israel to know that there is something wrong with the way they are
talking, something false about it. No place could be as vile as they
describe it. No people so lost to humanity. Not even the Nazis were as bad
as the Jews are accused of being. Which Zionism are they anti?"
Jacobson rejected the notion that 'Zionism equals colonialism', saying
"when I hear a Jew saying Zionism was always colonialism, I say, no it
wasn’t." Dismissing Chomsky's scholarship on the Israel/Palestine debate
as "drivel", Jacobson has stated, "what are some of them for? I am very
sympathetic to somebody worrying about the Palestinians. But not spouting
the Chomsky drivel."
Jacobson has tackled Jewish anti-Zionists and those Jews that reject
Israel in his novel "The Finkler Question." According to Professor Edward
Alexander, amongst those he parodies and criticizes is musician Gilad
Atzmon. Reviewing the book for the Scholars for Peace in the Middle East
web site in 2010, Alexander writes, "the novel’s Holocaust-denying
Israeli yored (expatriate) drummer is in fact based upon one Gilad Atzmon,
who is better known in England for endorsing the ideology of the Protocols
of the Elders of Zion and describing the burning of British synagogues as a
“rational act” in retaliation for Israeli actions.

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