1st Edition
The Meaning of Israel Anti-Zionism and Philo-Zionism in the Postwar Left
Chapter 1. Introduction
- From Marx to Corbyn and Omar
- Politics of historical explanation
- Norway as a case study
- Civilisation and the Jewish Imperial Turn
- Outline of the book
Chapter 2. Anti-Zionism and the Pro-Zionist Turn, 1933—47
- The absence of pro-Zionism
- The first pro-Zionist
- A fragile and threatened civilisation
- Pro-Zionism and threatened civilisation
- Conclusion
Chapter 3. Learning to Accept Jews and Fear Arabs, 1946—49
- Barbarian Arabs
- Solving the ‘Jewish Problem’
- Victory and doubt
- Conclusion
Chapter 4. The Philo-Zionist Turn, 1949—1955
- An accident and its aftermath
- Martin Tranmæl in Israel
- Less socialism, more civilisation
- Better civilisation through Israel
- Overcoming Jewish difference
- Conclusion
Chapter 5. No Conspiracy: From Suez to the Eichmann Trial, 1956—61
- Suez
- The conspiracy theory
- Why idealization continued
- Eichmann
- Conclusion
Chapter 6. The Emergence of Scepticism: Orientering, Decolonization, and the Six-Day War, 1959—67
- Scepticism in Orientering
- Two generations in Orientering
- Scepticism in Arbeiderbladet
- The Six-Day War
- Conclusion
Chapter 7. The Emergence of Anti-Zionism in the New Left, 1965—68
- Before the Six-Day War
- Immediate responses to the Six-Day War
- Implicit anti-Zionism
- Explicit anti-Zionism
- The essence of Israel
- Conclusion
Chapter 8. New Left Anti-Zionism in Context: ‘1968’ and Civilisation
- Fanon in Bryn-Hellerud
- Georg Johannesen and the Porsgrunn Maoists
- The ‘populist’ revolt in SF
- The Vietnam movement
- Maoism
- Conclusion
Chapter 9. Beyond National Peculiarities
- European pro-Zionism and philo-Zionism
- American pro-Zionism and philo-Zionism
- European anti-Zionism
- American and North African anti-Zionism
Biography
Åsmund Borgen Gjerde is a postdoc at the University of Bergen. This is his second monograph, and he is currently working on the third, about radicalism and sexual identity in the aftermath of the Second World War, in Europe and the United States. He has published numerous journal articles and anthology chapters.
