Book review:The Anti-Israel Agenda

The Anti-Israel Agenda is a terrific summary of how the the world has adopted the irrational  hate of the Jewish state as a legitimate political idea.

Edited by Alex Ryvchin, the Director of Public Affairs at the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, the book has chapters written by the top experts in each field it covers.

NGO Monitor's Gerald Steinberg writes a brief but excellent history of how NGOs adopted the anti-Israel agenda, concentrating on the infamous Durban conference.

UN Watch's Hillel Neuer contributes a chapter on the UN's anti-Israel bias.

Michael Dickson and Max Samarov, of StandWithUs, discuss the hate of Israel on American campuses.

Seth Frantzman, op-ed editor at the Jerusalem Post, discusses media bias against Israel.

Colonel Richard Kemp discusses the libelous claims of war crimes against Israel, and Arsen Ostrovsky discusses attacks on Israel in social media.

There are also chapters on attacks on Israel in British trade unions, a great summary of the attitudes towards Israel from various Christian denominations with lots of material on Palestinian Christian supercessionism, and Professor Alan Dershowitz writes a conclusion on why the anti-Israel movement is wrong.

That's a formidable line-up, yet the book is less than 200 pages.

This is an essential introduction to the topic and taken as a whole it shows the scope of anti-Israel activities worldwide, from the micro to the macro levels. When seen as a whole, one can only conclude that the anti-Israel agenda is a pathology of hate that has little to do with Israel's own actions or supposed crimes.

While the book does not take the path to describe this is just a modern manifestation of antisemitism, it is difficult to come up with any other conclusion.

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