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March 22, 2017

The Six-Day War and the West German Left’s Turn to Anti-Semitism

On both sides of the Iron Curtain, anti-Zionism never strayed far from hatred of Jews.

Up until the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, the New Left in Western Europe and America maintained an ambivalent attitude toward Zionism; thereafter, it embraced the anti-Zionism of the Soviet Union and other Communist governments. Jeffrey Herf explains East Germany’s continuous record of hostility to Israel, the adoption of the same attitude by the radical Left in West Germany following the Six-Day War, and the anti-Semitism that persisted just below the surface in both countries:

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