The Myths of Liberal Zionism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781784786281)

One of Israel's most controversial writers demystifies the "peace camp" liberals

Yitzhak Laor is one of Israel's most prominent dissidents and poets, a latter-day Spinoza who helps keep alive the critical tradition within Jewish culture. In this work he fearlessly dissects the complex attitudes of Western European liberal Left intellectuals toward Israel, Zionism and the "Israeli peace camp."

He argues that through a prism of famous writers like Amos Oz, David Grossman and A.B. Yehoshua, the peace camp has now adopted the European vision of "new Zionism," promoting the fierce Israeli desire to be accepted as part of the West and taking advantage of growing Islamophobia across Europe.

The backdrop to this uneasy relationship is the ever-present shadow of the Holocaust. Laor is merciless as he strips bare the hypocrisies and unarticulated fantasies that lie beneath the love affair between "liberal Zionists" and their European supporters.

Author: Yitzhak Laor
ISBN-10: 1784786284
ISBN-13: 9781784786281
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 01/31/2017
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.70d