Dimensions
153 x 231 x 21mm
In this passionate and dramatic book, Phyllis Chesler shows how Jews today are suffering the worst outbreak of anti-semitism since the terrible years of the 1930s and 40s. She documents the evolution and development of anti-semitism to this most pervasive level since WWII by telling the story of her own experience as a child growing up in NYC during the holocaust, as a pioneering Zionist in the new state of Israel, as the wife of an Afghanistan muslim living for many years in the middle east, as an activist in the 60s, then one of the first feminist thinkers and leaders the 70s, and as a practicing Jew today, struggling at the red hot centre of attacks on Jews from the left and right.
Chesler urges us to ignore the strategic propoganda of Osama Bin Laden against Jews and to separate the policies of the current Israeli state from the character and fate of all Jews everywhere. It's essential, she says, to recognize that the conspiracy theories, the blaming and hatred of all Jews in this age of terrorism is without rational basis. This is a book certain to provoke major controversy and discussion.
