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Tariq Ali and Rashid Khalidi sat down in the Verso office in New York to discuss the state of the crisis in Palestine and their new book on the subject,  The Neck and the Sword  – available now as part of Verso's  Palestine Pamphlets  series.

The reviewer does not mention the formation of nation states in Europe. Did that have no effect on Zionists? Does the author himself incorporate the nation state in The Foundations of Zionism ?

A good article by Ussama M aqdisi, the author of  Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World “Philo-Zionism relies on two pillars. These include a generalised western view that Israel’s creation is a just and moral recompense for the history of  European antisemitism  that culminated with the Holocaust; and the consistent racist demonisation of Israel’s opponents as non-western barbarians of a peculiar antisemitic type.  The entire ethical edifice of an inward-looking, Eurocentric, post-war western humanism - its museums of remembrance, its discourse of tolerance and reflection, and its obsessive grappling with its own antisemitic past - is ultimately built on the backs of native Palestinians, who were chased out of their homes and  also out of history .  Palestinian resistance - including “terrorism” - has consistently been decontextualised, and depicted as irrational and immoral by western powers and mainstream m...