MARQUSEE, MIKE. IF I AM NOT FOR MYSELF

If I am not for myself Zionism will speak for me. This is a political autobiography of an anti-Zionist Jew who subjects the ideology of Zionism to rational scrutiny. He takes an internationalist, humanitarian stance which will not accept discrimination, injustice and ethnic supremacy no matter where it shows itself. And it shows itself in Zionism. He analyses the writings of a journalist grandfather, a Jew on the American Left. He illustrates but fails to explain how this earnest left-winger was completely blind when it came to the establishment and behaviour of Israel. His father, also a Jewish leftist, involved in civil rights, was the first person to call him a self-hating Jew. The shortcomings of political activity for the realm of consciousness are evident. The author then goes on to become active in the British Labour Party. Does not his own political activity now lead him to have an over-tolerant view of the current Jewish diasporic attitude toward Zionism and Israel? An attitude of being Israel's willing helpers? Rating: Very good.