@hughnaylor

This is the greatest book ever written about Israel’s relationship with the Holocaust. It’s long forgotten that Holocaust survivors were spat upon in Israel as lambs to the slaughter before the Eichmann trial. Also, the book adds to Avi Shlaim’s work on Zionism and how the ideology took on many incarnations before the Likud/Kahanist strands ultimately took control. Zionism, in short, was a diverse ideology with many differing interpretations. Not all were extremely nationalist. Not at all. This must be remembered and factored into discussions, especially given the origins of persecution in Europe. Just to add, before the 1940s, Muslim-majority polities were far more tolerant of Jews when compared to Europe

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