Israelophobia
Praise for Israelophobia, Telegraph book of the year
“This is an important and necessary book by a superb and subtle writer… It fascinatingly analyses the dark sides of our world today – political, national, cultural and digital – and exposes uncomfortable truths” –SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE
“Buy copies to distribute to your kindergarten groups and universities, and then buy another copy for yourself. It does the heart good to see one of the greatest expressions of collective animus exposed for the sanctimonious posturing it is. Israelophobia is a book we all need” –HOWARD JACOBSON
“Israelophobia is as important, trenchant and original as Jews Don’t Count. And as necessary to read” –DANIEL FINKELSTEIN
“There never was a more timely publication than Israelophobia by Jake Wallis Simons” –ROD LIDDLE
“A profoundly powerful polemic” –ROB RINDER
“A powerful analysis of how obsessive hatred of Israel can be a cover for hatred of the Jews... An exhaustive and damning study” –TELEGRAPH
“This book is particularly timely… Makes a convincing exposé of the convenient line that attacks Israel” –EVENING STANDARD
“Fascinating” –SPECTATOR
About the book
In the Middle Ages, Jews were hated for their religion. In the twentieth century, they were hated because of their race. Today, Jews are hated for something else entirely, their nation-state of Israel. Antisemitism has morphed into something both ancient and modern: Israelophobia. But how did this transformation occur? And why?
Award-winning journalist Jake Wallis Simons answers these questions, clarifying the line between criticism and hatred, exploring game-changing facts and exposing dangerous discourse.
Urgent, incisive and deeply necessary, Israelophobia reveals why the Middle East's only democracy, which uniquely respects the rights of women and sexual and religious minorities, attracts such disproportionate levels of slander. Rather than defending Israel against all criticism, it argues for reasonable disagreement based on reality instead of bigotry.
Through charting the history of Israelophobia – starting in Nazi Germany, travelling via the Kremlin to Tehran and along fibre optic cables to billions of screens – and using it to understand contemporary prejudice, this timely book will restore much-needed sanity to the debate, creating the space for mutual understanding, tolerance and peace.
JWS novels, including bestselling The English German Girl
Jake Wallis Simons has written four works of fiction, including Jam, set entirely in traffic; The Pure, a thriller about the Mossad and the Iranian nuclear programme; his first novel, The Exiled Times Of A Tibetan Jew; and the award-winning The English German Girl, which is about the Kindertransport. All are available on Amazon.