Meaning of Israel

Åsmund Borgen Gjerde is a postdoc at the University of Bergen. This is his second monograph, and he is currently working on the third, about radicalism and sexual identity in the aftermath of the Second World War, in Europe and the United States. He has published numerous journal articles and anthology chapters.

• Chapter 1. Introduction- From Marx to Corbyn and Omar- Politics of historical explanation- Norway as a case study- Civilisation and the Jewish Imperial Turn- Outline of the bookChapter 2. Anti-Zionism and the Pro-Zionist Turn, 1933—47- The absence of pro-Zionism- The first pro-Zionist- A fragile and threatened civilisation- Pro-Zionism and threatened civilisation- ConclusionChapter 3. Learning to Accept Jews and Fear Arabs, 1946—49- Barbarian Arabs- Solving the ‘Jewish Problem’- Victory and doubt- ConclusionChapter 4. The Philo-Zionist Turn, 1949—1955- An accident and its aftermath- Martin Tranmæl in Israel- Less socialism, more civilisation- Better civilisation through Israel- Overcoming Jewish difference- ConclusionChapter 5. No Conspiracy: From Suez to the Eichmann Trial, 1956—61- Suez- The conspiracy theory- Why idealization continued- Eichmann- ConclusionChapter 6. The Emergence of Scepticism: Orientering, Decolonization, and the Six-Day War, 1959—67- Scepticism in Orientering- Two generations in Orientering- Scepticism in Arbeiderbladet- The Six-Day War- ConclusionChapter 7. The Emergence of Anti-Zionism in the New Left, 1965—68- Before the Six-Day War- Immediate responses to the Six-Day War- Implicit anti-Zionism- Explicit anti-Zionism- The essence of Israel- ConclusionChapter 8. New Left Anti-Zionism in Context: ‘1968’ and Civilisation- Fanon in Bryn-Hellerud- Georg Johannesen and the Porsgrunn Maoists- The ‘populist’ revolt in SF- The Vietnam movement- Maoism- ConclusionChapter 9. Beyond National Peculiarities- European pro-Zionism and philo-Zionism- American pro-Zionism and philo-Zionism- European anti-Zionism- American and North African anti-Zionism