Daniel Randall’s book is a socialist analysis of left antisemitism, which asks: ‘How did the political left, a movement apparently committed to equality, become a site of antisemitism, and how can antisemitism on the left be overcome?

Randall traces left antisemitism’s origins to primitive critiques of capitalism that conflated Jews with capital; Stalinism’s “anti-cosmopolitan” and “anti-Zionist” campaigns of the 1950s onwards; and a form of “anti-imperialism” which designates any opposition to western imperialism, including Israel, as necessarily progressive.

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