Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; 1 The revolution and the Jewish question; 2 Lenin's Jewish problem; 3 Zionists and Communists in Palestine; 4 Cultivating Arab nationalism; 5 The new dawn; 6 British Communism between the wars; 7 True believers and the revolutionary imperative; 8 After the Shoah; 9 The icy streets of Prague; 10 The resurrection of the outcast; 11 Leon, Mandel and Cliff; 12 The non-aligned; 13 The watershed of 1956; 14 The post-Stalinists andthe anti-Stalinists; 15 The changing face of the British Left. 16 The campaign against normalizationSelected Bibliography; Index
Summary
Why has the European Left become so antagonistic towards Israel? To answer this question, Colin Shindler looks at the struggle between Marxism-Leninism and Zionism from the October Revolution to today. Is such antagonism in opposition to the policies of successive Israeli governments? Or, is it due to a resurgence of anti-Semitism? The answer is far more complex. Shindler argues that the new generation of the European Left was more influenced by the decolonization movement than by wartime experiences, which led it to favor the Palestinian cause in the post 1967 period. -- Provided by publisher
