If I Am Not For Myself: Journey of an Anti-Zionist JewIf I Am Not For Myself is a passionate, thought-provoking exploration of what it means to be Jewish in the twenty-first century. It traces the author’s upbringing in 1960s Jewish-American suburbia, his anti-war and pro-Palestinian activism on the British left, and life as a Jew among Muslims in Pakistan, Morocco, and Britain. Interwoven with this are the experiences of his grandfather’s life in Jewish New York of the 1930s and 40s, his struggles with anti-Semitism and the twists and turns that led him from anti-fascism to militant Zionism. In the course of this deeply personal story, Marqusee refutes the claims of Israel and Zionism on Jewish loyalty and laments their impact on the Jewish diaspora. Rather, he argues for a richer, more multi-dimensional understanding of Jewish history and identity, and reclaims vital political and personal space for those castigated as “self-haters” by the Jewish establishment. |
Contents
Names and Faces 3322 | 3 |
The War Against Analogy | 23 |
An Intimate Accusation | 42 |
The Emancipation of the Jews | 62 |
The Prophet Armed | 87 |
A Militant Jew | 119 |
In Ancient Palestine | 140 |
The War in the Bronx | 157 |
Nakba | 179 |
Diasporic Dimensions | 211 |
Confessions of a SelfHating Jew | 251 |
Acknowledgments | 297 |
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