Description
Book SynopsisThe changes and divisions on the British left over the Israel-Palestine conflict forms the central theme of this archive based study.
Trade Review"Paul Keleman provides many answers in this revelatory and investigative book."
"the book provides a historically accurate, informed overview of how the British Left shifted from support to criticism of Zionism in opposition to Israel’s ‘blood and soil’ nationalism and the expansion of Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories."
(Ekaterina Kolpinskaya, Political Studies Review Volume 12, Issue 3, September 2014)
Kelemen's book... is meticulously well researched and well written.
‘It is not often that a book can be classed as indispensable to an understanding of Zionism - the ideology of the movement that established the Israeli state - and its relationship to the left and the labour movement. But The British left and Zionism is one.’
Tony Greenstein, Weekly Worker, 24th March 2019
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Table of Contents1. The Labour Party and the Zionist Project
2. Zionism and Anglo-Jewry
3. British Communists and Palestine
4. Post-war Social Democracy and Israel
5. The New Left and the Palestinians
6. A new antisemitism?
Conclusion
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