Reviews for Zionism in the Age of Dictators : A Reappraisal

The average rating for Zionism in the Age of Dictators : A Reappraisal based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-08-29 00:00:00 Charles Palmer Brenner's historical analysis highlights how the Zionist movement sought to emulate other European white-supremacist and nationalist colonial movements and even sought to collaborate with anti-Semitic regimes (including Nazi Germany) if such collaboration would advance their colonialist ambitions. As Brenner shows, this collusion represented a betrayal of the masses of rank-and-file Jews, who were primarily concerned with maintaining an organized fight against European fascism. The Zionist movement actively sought to undermine the Jewish boycott against Nazi Germany. Zionists also tried to discourage anti-fascist rank-and-file Jews from traveling to Spain to fight against Franco during the Spanish Revolution. These accounts, and other information presented in this book, help the reader to understand that the Zionist movement and the colonial settler-state of Israel have no legitimate claim to anti-fascism or anti-racism, despite their continually frequent claims to the contrary.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-12-22 00:00:00 Joseph Gans The book relates the history of Zionism with the second world war, the age of dictators, and the holocaust. IT tried to show the interaction between Herzl's movement and the rise of Fascism and Nazism in Europe. Author claims to show evidence that Zionist sought the patronage and benevolence of the avowed anti semites and, ultimately , the collaboration of the Fascist and Nazis. The author does state that Zionism is an ideology and it is not now , nor was it ever , co extensive with either Judaism or the jewish people. I thought the book was poorly organized with to many numbers and dates, too much data. I had to fight to finish it.I only gave it a 3 star because it gave me a better understanding of ZIONISM.