Mike Marqusee spoke to meetings in Edinburgh and E. Renfrewshire on his new book – May 2008

May 6th, 2008
Mike Marqusee spoke to lively SPSC meetings, one large, one modest, on his new book: “If I am not for Myself – Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew”.

The meeting in Edinburgh was hosted by Edinburgh University Palestine Solidarity Society, held in EU Old College and was chaired by a Palestinian student, Mohammed A.

Mike discussed how, through Zionism, the Jews, who were long the internal victims of the dominant Christian ‘civilisation’, have come to be the Zionist hit-men in the van of the long-established aggression of European and North American powers against the ‘inferior’ dark-skinned majority peoples of the world.

He laid bare the historical processes whereby Zionism came to defeat the opposing forces within the Jewish community who for long kept it as a minority current, and looked at recent developments that might reverse this defeat . Working to win Jews from Zionism is a vital part of solidarity with the Palestinian people, weakens support for Israel across the whole society and can accelerate the campaign for boycott against Israel.

At the SPSC-organised meetings in both East Renfrewshire and Edinburgh, there was genuine dialogue with alternative views of the relationship of Jews to Zionism and the US empire.

Video of Mike Marqusee talk in Edinburgh:

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