David Held is Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics and co-director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance. His recent writings have been concerned to understand the dynamics of globalisation and to …
In his substantial and far-reaching review of The Question of Zion, Shalom Lappin aims to discredit the book on grounds of argument and scholarship, arguing that my objective in the book is ‘to characterise Zionism as a collective mental disorder.’ …
‘What is this?’ The horrified young border police officer at Ben-Gurion Airport seems not to believe her eyes. She stares at the visas – from Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia and Turkey – in my entirely stamped passport. But after …
Tel Aviv, 1933: Members of Betar, the Revisionist Zionist youth movement, march through the streets of Tel Aviv in clean, pressed, brown uniforms, performing militaristic drills to the jeers of socialists. In the minds of the Labour Zionists the uniforms, …
With the recent Israel-Lebanon war now apparently over, it is time to take stock of what happened. The separate attacks on the Israeli military by Palestinian and Lebanese militants, both of which included the abduction of Israeli troops, appear to …
In 2003, Nir Regev – a university student, whom Ami Pedahzur had taught – was killed when Hanadi Jaradat, a 29-year-old lawyer from Jenin, blew herself up in a Haifa restaurant. Against this backdrop of personal loss, this book sets …
Notes on the Participants Alan Johnson is the editor of Democratiya. He is also a founder member of Labour Friends of Iraq and co-author of the Euston Manifesto. Since 2003 he has supported the work of Iraqi democrats. With Abdullah …
In his latest book, The New Transnational Activism, Sidney Tarrow seeks to understand the character of those forms of contentious politics which exceed the boundaries of the contemporary nation state. In a rapidly globalizing world, how is the nature of …
Since 1974, the absolute number of democracies in the world has almost tripled. Only in the Muslim countries of the Middle East and North Africa did this ‘third wave of democracy’ have little impact; these countries still include not one …
In The Question of Zion, Jacqueline Rose seeks to characterise Zionism as a collective mental disorder induced by centuries of Jewish suffering. [1] She proposes to subject it to psychoanalysis in order to reveal the manner in which the trauma …
Editor’s Note: Max Shachtman (1904-72) [1] was one of the great platform orators. Irving Kristol recalled he could ‘argue at a high pitch of moral and intellectual and rhetorical intensity for two, three, even four hours.’ [2] Irving Howe, in …
How do you build peace in a society emerging from civil war? This is a question preoccupying many statesmen and academics, not least due to the implosion of Iraq, the continuing instability in Afghanistan, the intractability of the conflict(s) in …
Shalom Lappin offers a meticulous review essay of Jacqueline Rose’s The Question of Zion – which characterises Zionism as a collective mental disorder induced by centuries of Jewish suffering. In what is possibly the most serious critical treatment that the …
As Jon Stewart, star of the US satirical comedy programme, The Daily Show, observed of the persistent use of ‘the war on terror’ by US politicians, ‘it’s a catchy phrase, it has a good beat and you can detain people …
Editors: The Euston Manifesto has caused a stir beyond its modest origins and list of signatories, because for once the options for the left seem to transcend the choice between bankrupt Blairism, its prospective Brownite reincarnation and the predictable certitudes …
