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Anti-Zionism
Historians have frequently struggled to produce satisfactory historical accounts of anti-Zionism. The term itself is often characterized as largely...
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Zionism
This chapter analyzes six Jewish thinkers and scholars whose thinking exemplifies the recurrent, strange, and, at times, befuddling dialectic of...
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The Jewish Left, Zionism, and the Diaspora
In an April 1950 article for The Zionist, prominent Zionist leader, Aaron Patkin laid out a critique of the Jewish antifascist left. In his...
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The Emancipation of Slaves and the Auto-Emancipation of the Jews: The Impact of the American Civil War and the Abolition of Slavery on the Precursors of Zionism
Research on the Jews, the issue of slavery in the southern states, and the American Civil War has naturally focused on the Jews of the United States,...
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Our Small World: Hebrew Children’s Letters and Modern Upbringing in Czarist Russia
The historiography of modern Hebrew culture views early twentieth-century Russia largely through the lens of canonical literature. However, Hebrew...
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Concluding Reflections
From Zionism’s beginning, the legitimacy of establishing the Jewish national homeland in Palestine was understood to be challenging and provocative....
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Possession and Dispossession Through Labor and Purchase
Zionism and its supporters assumed that purchasing land and improving it through labor were unquestionably legitimate long before Arabs complained...
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Jewish Left-Wing Intellectuals in Postwar Germany: The Case of Micha Brumlik and the Israeli Palestinian Conflict Between Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism
When talking about anti-Zionism or antisemitism in the New Left the discourse in the past five decades has often dealt with their animus against...
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Introduction
The British labour movement’s public support for Zionism did not begin with the Balfour Declaration. It began three months earlier in September 1917...
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The French Radical Left and the Jews: The Influence of the Arab-Israeli Conflict on Anti-Zionism Within the French Radical Left Between 1967 and the Early 1980s
The paper analyses the anti-Zionist activism of the French radical Left through the demonstrations and violence that were perpetrated by the extreme...
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The Rifle that Stands Between Us: Arab Intellectuals and the Jewish Question, 1839–2020
This chapter examines the ways in which Arab writers in the Levant and Egypt addressed the question of modern Antisemitism. It focuses on Arab...
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From Theological to Secular Claims
The legitimacy of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine has been disputed since at least the Balfour Declaration in November 1917, when the...
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Wither Philosemitic Europe? Antisemitism after the “Golden Era”
The defeat of the Labour Party in the 2019 general election in Britain has put to rest the tumultuous “Corbyn Affair” (2015–2019). Whether Labour...
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Defining Antisemitism: What Is the Point?
In May 2016, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) adopted a Working Definition of Antisemitism. The definition has, on the one...
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Islam: Encountering a Contemporary Challenge
Islam’s encounter with the Jewish state has been the most intense and actively hostile. The Muslim Middle East has mounted armies to wage war,...
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The Italian Communist Party and the “Israel Question” During the First Years of the Cold War. Towards a Historical Semantics of Communist Anti-Zionism
Reflecting on the relationship between Jews and the Left during her time, French scholar of communism Annie Kriegel emphasized the need to discern...
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“A Nostalgia for Totality”: Cesare Cases Between Antisemitism, the Jewish Question and Israel
Reminiscing about the post-war atmosphere, Cesare Cases—who was born in Milan in 1920 and died in Florence in 2005—wrote: “For those who felt uneasy...
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Zionism and the British Labour Party
Historian of the British empire, Archibald Thornton, asserted in 1959 that ‘the Labour Party was always a strong supporter of Zionism.’ His remark...
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The Move to Outright Criticism of Israel
This chapter which covers the period 1973–1983 examines the change in the Labour movements’ attitude to Israel, the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the Helsinki...
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Zionism, Assimilationism and Antifascism: Divergent International Jewish Pathways in Three Post-War Australian Jewish Magazines
In the immediate post-war period, Jewish communities worldwide sought to draw political lessons from the events of the Holocaust, the rise of fascism...