Zionist Masquerade: The Birth of the Anglo-Zionist Alliance, 1914-18 Book

Illustrations     ix
Acknowledgements     x
Introduction     1
Perceptions of Jewry and Ethnicity in the Official Mind     11
Race, nationalism and identity     13
'The Jew' as an outsider     18
Mythologies of the Jewish nation in British culture     19
Jews, Ethnicity and the Propaganda War in the USA     23
'Jewish power' in the context of total war     24
British propaganda and ethnicity     26
British policies towards ethnic groups in the USA     29
Turning Perceptions into Policy: The Role of Jewish Activists, 1914-1917     43
Sowing the seeds for the Balfour Declaration     44
Sir Mark Sykes and Moses Gaster     54
The Making of the Balfour Declaration     58
Establishing the motives for a pro-Zionist policy     58
Securing the Balfour Declaration     64
The Anglo-Zionist Propaganda Machine     73
The Jewish Section of the Department of Information     73
The historicisation of the Balfour Declaration     81
National Space and the Narrative of a New Epoch in Palestine     90
The capture of Jerusalem     91
Different visions of Palestine     97
Palestine as the site of Jewish national transformation     99
The Zionist landscape and the narrative of British liberation     104
Performing the Rebirth of the Jewish Nation     109
A visible symbol of the Anglo-Zionist entente     110
Exhibiting the American Zionist Medical Unit     111
Performing the myth of national liberation in Palestine     112
The Jewish Legion: 'a political performing company'     122
Perception vs. Reality: American Jewish Identities and the Impact of the Balfour Declaration     130
Zionism and American Jewry before the Balfour Declaration     131
Patriotism and Jewish identities in wartime America     134
The impact of the Balfour Declaration     138
The response of immigrant Jewry     144
Conclusion: The Consequences for Palestine     149
Notes     156
Bibliography     206
Index     223