Three myths about Zionism
The historical record shows that Zionism started as and remains a movement for national self-determination
Reviews
54 postsReviews of books, exhibitions, films, television programmes and any other medium on the subject of anti-Semitism.
An insider’s take on Gaza
The latest edition of the Jewish Quarterly provides a valuable glimpse of what the world looks like to the people of Gaza
An outrage to common sense
How anti-Semites come to see Jews as symbolising the evils of the modern world
GUEST POST: A tale of two colonialisms
Patrick Wolfe is typical of a new generation of thinkers whose hostility to Israel’s alleged settler-colonialism reflects a broader self-loathing in the West
Anti-populism vs Israel
The rise of an anti-populist narrative among western elites helps explain the growing animosity to Israel and divisions within the Jewish state
Omer Bartov is whitewashing Israel’s enemies
Israel: What Went Wrong downplays the threats of Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran to serve a familiar anti-Israel narrative.
The fallacies of anti-Zionism
On the fundamentally flawed autobiography of a leading Israeli politician turned anti-Zionist
GUEST POST: Spain’s history of anti-Semitism
Anti-Semitism was central to the rise of Spanish fascism in the 20th century despite there being few Jews in the country
Explaining the Holocaust paradox
America’s awareness of the Holocaust only started to come to the fore in the 1970s with the emergence of a broader victim culture
Anti-Semitism in its broader context
A new book by one of Israel’s most high profile British supporters is a worthy but ultimately flawed attempt to put the rise of anti-Semitism into a broader political context.
GUEST POST: The blueprint for anti-Semitism
A long read on the single most influential anti-Semitic text shaping animosity to Jews in Tsarist Russia, Nazi Germany, the Arab world and beyond
GUEST POST: Mendelssohn is on the Roof
A review of a little-known but darkly satirical novel on Prague under Nazi occupation written by a Jewish survivor of the ordeal
GUEST POST: Arendt’s judgements on Israel
The great German-Jewish political thinker was fiercely critical of mainstream Zionism but unequivocally supported Israel’s right to defend itself
Jews cast as the devil
A look at the historical origins of the enduring idea that Jews represent a diabolical force
France’s anti-Semitism conundrum
A new biography of Alfred Dreyfus helps explain how anti-Semitism emerged in French society despite the country’s professed attachment to equality and rights