Table of 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 and the Anti-Stalinists
15. The Changing Face of the British Left
16. The Campaign Against Normalization

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A historical overview and analysis of the changing attitudes of the International Left towards Zionism and Israel.

About the Author

Colin Shindler is Emeritus Professor and Pears Senior Research Fellow at SOAS, University of London, UK. He is also the founding chairman of the European Association of Israel Studies. The first professor of Israel Studies in the UK, he has written 7 books on Israeli history and Jewish affairs. His History of Modern Israel was published in 2008 to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of Israel.

Reviews

"This is a timely book of really great importance which convincingly situates the roots of the antagonism of the Left towards Israel and Zionism in a distaste for ideas such as Zionism which did not easily slide into conventional theoretical frameworks as well as confusion between colonialism and colonisation. Indispensable reading for anyone who wishes to fully comprehend Israel's place in the world of today." - Professor Tudor Parfitt,  University of London, UK.

Author article in The Jewish Chronicle.

Author article on OpenDemocracy.net. http://www.opendemocracy.net/colin-shindler/left-and-israel-tortured-path

Shindler has written a fascinating book. http://www.thejc.com/arts/books/63740/review-israel-and-european-left
*Jewish Chronicle*

Author article in The Jewish Telegraph.

... Shindler's book is superb: a well-written and meticulously researched history of the horrors and ironies of the last 100 years.
*Standpoint*

This book is a useful introduction to a complex problem and can serve as a starting point for discourse about the relations between Israel and the left.
*Journal of Israeli History*