With Friends Like These: The Jewish Critics of Israel

Jews who criticize Israel have become the darlings of the media, the State Department, and, of course, the Arabs. One can hardly open a newspaper or tune in to a television talk show without encountering these detractors. Now Edward Alexander offers analysis and includes controversial essays by leading writers on this hot topic.

Contents:
Anti-semitism, Israeli-style ; Michael Lerner : the would-be king of American Jewry / Edward Alexander —
Thomas Friedman’s Israel : the myth of unrequited love / Jerold S. Auerbach —
Milton Viorst : master of the double standard / David Bar-Illan —
Anthony Lewis : savior of Israel’s soul / Yitzhak Ben-Zvi —
The hidden alliances of Noam Chomsky / Werner Cohn —
Israelis against themselves / Rael Jean and Erich Isaac —
New Jewish agenda : the Jewish wing of the Anti-Israel lobby / Rael Jean Isaac —
The normalization of the Jews : Jerome Segal and the Stockholm five / Jacob Neusner —
Israel : a lamentation from the future / Norman Podhoretz —
The new Israel fund : financing Palestinian nationalism / Joseph Puder —
“Phony Israel” : an exercise in nastiness / Marie Syrkin —
Epilogue / Edward Alexander.

Edward Alexander, editor ; preamble by Cynthia Ozick.