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Few countries provoke as much passion and controversy as Israel.
What is Modern Israel? convincingly demonstrates that its founding
ideology - Zionism - is anything but a simple reaction to
antisemitism. Dispelling the notion that every Jew is a Zionist and
therefore a natural advocate for the state of Israel, Yakov Rabkin
points to the Protestant roots of Zionism, in order to explain the
particular support Israel musters in the United States. Drawing on
many overlooked pages of history, including English, French,
Hebrew, Yiddish and Russian sources, Yakov Rabkin shows that
Zionism was conceived as a sharp break with Judaism and Jewish
continuity. Israel's past and present must be seen in the context
of European ethnic nationalism, colonial expansion and geopolitical
interests, rather than as an incarnation of Biblical prophecies or
a culmination of Jewish history.
A Threat from Within presents a history of Jewish opposition to
Zionism, and challenges the myths that lie at the very root of
contemporary or 'new' anti-Semitism. A principled and enduring
opposition to Zionism has come from spiritual leaders of Judaism
and has not died away despite the State of Israel existence as an
imposing military power. The violence in Israel/Palestine acquires
a different meaning when seen in the context of internal opposition
to Zionism. Dire warnings voiced at the birth of Zionism now sound
prophetic. The anti-Zionists have claimed all along that far from
'solving the Jewish question' and offering Jews a safe haven,
Zionism would only fan hatred of the Jews. A Threat from Within and
its seemingly paradoxical theme - Jews opposing Zionism in the name
of Judaism - will fascinate a wide range of readers from different
political and religious orientations. Yakov Rabkin's book has been
translated into several languages and has been nominated for the
2006 Governor General's Literary Awards, Canada's most prestigious
literary prize.
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