Originally published 2016 | ||
The Left's Jewish Problem: Jeremy Corbyn, Israel and Anti‑Semitism is a 2016 book by Dave Rich. The book explores the origin of the new antisemitism that is "masked as "anti-Zionism" in left-wing politics.
Contents
Writing in The Guardian, Nick Cohen describes the book as, "authoritative history of left antisemitism."
Beginning of New Left antisemitism
Rich traces the origin of contemporary left-wing anti-Semitic anti-Israel rhetoric to the early 1960s, when Peter Hain and Louis Eakes of the Young Liberals wing of the British Liberal Party reconceptualized the national liberation movement of the Jewish people as an imperialist project imposing apartheid on an indigenous people. Philip Spencer, Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Kingston University, accuses the Young Liberals of, "the victims of the most murderous racism, were now the real racists, inverting the Holocaust."