ZIONISM IN THE AGE OF THE DICTATORS

BRENNER : ZIONISM IN THE AGE OF THE DICTATORS
support given them by progressive Jews, whether religious—as with Mrs Ruth Blau,
Elmer Berger, Moshe Menuhin, or Israel Shahak—or atheist—as with Felicia Langer
and Lea Tsemel and others on the left. Neither nationality nor theology nor social
theory can, in any way, be allowed to become a stumbling block before the feet of
those Jews, in Israel or elsewhere, who are determined to walk with the Palestinian
people against injustice and racism. It can be said, with scientific certainty, that,
without the unbreakable unity of Arab and Jewish progressives, victory over
Zionism is not merely difficult, it is impossible.
Unless this book were to become an encyclopaedia, the material had
necessarily to be selected, with all due care, so that a rounded picture might come
forth. It is inevitable that the scholars of the several subjects dealt with will
complain that not enough attention had been devoted to their particular specialties.
And they will be correct, to be sure; whole books have been written on particular
facets of the broader problems dealt with herein, and the reader is invited to delve
further into the sources cited in the footnotes. An additional difficulty arises out of
the fact that so much of the original material is in a host of languages that few
readers are likely to know. Therefore, wherever possible, English sources and
translations are cited, thus giving sceptical readers a genuine opportunity to verify
the research apparatus relied upon.
As readers are committed to discovering by reading this book, the
consequences of Zionist ideology deserve study and exposure. That is what is
attempted here. As an unabashed anti-Zionist, I clearly conclude that Zionism is
wholly incorrect; but that is my conclusion drawn from the evidence. The
conclusions are, in short, my own. As for the persuasiveness of the arguments used
in arriving at them, readers are invited to judge for themselves.
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