THERE WAS a time when a book about Zionist collaboration with anti-semites, Nazis included, would have been dismissed as a sick joke by a self-hater (as anti-Zionist Jews are invariably denounced).
But last year's invasion of Lebanon so tarnished Israel's image that there is growing scepticism about une unimpeachable authority that Zionists have alwavs taise v assum. ed on the 'Jewish Question' reviewed by Pam Singer With the massacres at Sabra and Chatila refugee camps, even the trump card of the Holocaust losing effectiveness as pathy silencing opposition.
In this context, Brenner's book should get the serious deserves as a thoughtful, wei-researcaca valuable book.
Brenner' s starting point is that Zionism as an ideology leads logically co-existence colwith anti. semites. He does not try to by making glib equations between Zionism Nazism. Rather, he shows Zionists sought the aid achieve their goal and accommodated to them Zionism has always DUSLUICU the sole defender of the Jews anti-semitism.
However the Zionist movement and indeed the state of Israel were founded and maintained not out of intransigent struggles Israeli soldiers on patrol nternational overseas surface, against anti-semitism, but OULI ot an acceptance of anti-semitism as endemic 'natural' to gentile society.
The Holocaust was an extreme example 'fact'. The acteristics, perpetual • 5 Jewish anti-semitism futile gesture.
antisemitism, has aways central strategy the Zionist his cvnicism as he Jews in century Europe, WaN at pe of the '30s.
on 8Insemitism, slogan was "Jew. go back to Palestine'. It is not surthen, that the Zionist movement would have collaborated with anti-semites to achieve the common goal of a Jewish ghetto in Palestine. The early Zionists however were not fussy about location.
Zionists, left and right alike, subordinated everyNew issue out now!
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Much has already been published about Zionist cooperation with Germany during World War 2. Brenner gives us a more rounded picture by cluding lesser known material about the Jewish communities and Zionists IN Cold.
Hungary. He goes through the records of all Zionist political currents up to the pro-fascist •Stern gang, considered the lunatic fringe of the lunatic fringe, operations commander Shamir _ПОй Israel's foreign minister.
SLICHOLICIS his convincing case by letting Zionists from all factions speak for themselves damer sage unen and social context. within wider Brenner's conclusion is that Zionism is totally incorrect. That it is not, and never has been, identical peoples. He insists that progressives must unite to defeat Zionism.
Read the book and see who the real 'selfhaters'.
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