Archive | Intellectual Incitement: The Anti-Zionist Ideology and the ... - Fathom Journal

Alan Johnson is the editor of Fathom. He published this chapter in 2015 in The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel, edited by Cary Nelson and Gabriel Noah Brahm (Wayne State University Press). We republish the chapter, with permission, because we think it can help to explain some of the disturbing reactions here in the West to the 7 October Hamas Pogrom. A long read, its central focus is how, over an extended period, and with great determination and organisational zeal, systematic intellectual incitement has cultivated an anti-Zionist ideology that is now hegemonic in the west, especially but not solely on ‘the left’, and which is able to construct the anti-Zionist subject – i.e.

fathomjournal.org     Oct 30, 2023