Israel’s Descent
Adam Shatz, 20 June 2024
The State of Israel v. the Jews
by Sylvain Cypel, translated by William Rodarmor.
Other Press, 352 pp., £24, October 2022,978 1 63542 097 5 Show More
by Sylvain Cypel, translated by William Rodarmor.
Other Press, 352 pp., £24, October 2022,
Deux peuples pour un état?: Relire l’histoire du sionisme
by Shlomo Sand.
Seuil, 256 pp., £20, January,978 2 02 154166 3 Show More
by Shlomo Sand.
Seuil, 256 pp., £20, January,
Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-78
by Geoffrey Levin.
Yale, 304 pp., £25, February,978 0 300 26785 3 Show More
by Geoffrey Levin.
Yale, 304 pp., £25, February,
Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life
by Joshua Leifer.
Dutton, 398 pp., £28.99, August,978 0 593 18718 0 Show More
by Joshua Leifer.
Dutton, 398 pp., £28.99, August,
The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance
by Shaul Magid.
Ayin, 309 pp., £16.99, December 2023,979 8 9867803 1 3 Show More
by Shaul Magid.
Ayin, 309 pp., £16.99, December 2023,
Deluge: Gaza and Israel from Crisis to Cataclysm
edited by Jamie Stern-Weiner.
OR Books, 336 pp., £17.99, April,978 1 68219 619 9 Show More
edited by Jamie Stern-Weiner.
OR Books, 336 pp., £17.99, April,
“... the Forests’, it was with anguish and guilt-laden rationalisation. But, as the French journalist Sylvain Cypel points out in The State of Israel v. the Jews, the ‘secret shame underlying the denial’ has evaporated. Today the catastrophe of 1948 is brazenly defended in Israel as a necessity – and viewed as an uncompleted, even ... ”
