The Left's Jewish Problem - Jeremy Corbyn, Israel and Anti-Semitism, Updated Edition - Softcover

Dave Rich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785904272 ISBN 13: 9781785904271

Publisher: Biteback Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

New, updated edition of an important and timely critique of Anti-Jewish sentiment on the left.

There is a sickness at the heart of left-wing British politics, and in recent years it has silently spread, becoming ever more malignant.

Today, it seems hard to believe that until the 1980s, the British left was broadly pro-Israel. And while Jeremy Corbyn's leadership may have thrown a harsher spotlight on the crisis, it is by no means a recent phenomenon. The widening gulf between British Jews and the anti-Israel left, now allying itself with Islamist extremists who demand Israel's destruction, did not happen overnight or by chance: political activists made it happen. This book reveals who they were, why they chose Palestine and how they sold their cause to the left.

Based on new academic research, Dave Rich's nuanced and thoughtful guide brings fresh insight to an increasingly fraught debate. As the question becomes more urgent than ever, this new, fully updated edition, taking in events since 2016, provides an essential guide to the left's increasingly controversial Jewish problem.

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Review:

Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand modern British politics. --Stephen Pollard, Daily Express

An authoritative history of left antisemitism which is all the more powerful for its moral and intellectual scrupulousness. --Nick Cohen, The Observer

Invaluable. --Dominic Lawson, The Sunday Times

About the Author:

Dave Rich is an Associate Research Fellow at the Pears Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism, Birkbeck College, University of London, where he was awarded his PhD in 2015. He works at the Community Security Trust (CST), for whom he briefs ministers, MPs, civil servants and police officers about antisemitism.

About this edition

• Publisher: Biteback Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1785904272
• ISBN 13: 9781785904271
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448