Durban Antizionism: Its Sources, Its Impact, and Its Relation to Older Anti-Jewish Ideologies, David Hirsh and Hilary Miller, Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism, Vol 5., No. 1, Spring 2022, Open Source Media, available at https://londonantisemitism.com/news/durban-antizionism-its-sources-its-impact-and-its-relation-to-older-anti-jewish-ideologies/. Hirsch and Miller’s article on “Durban antizionism,” is essential reading for anyone interested in the fate of Israel or diaspora Jews. It explains how the 2001 UN “Conference against Racism” synthesized older forms of anti-Semitism, together with anti-colonialism into “anti-Zionism,” which then became a potent and still underestimated force that has infiltrated government, academic and civil society institutions around the world. As the authors put it, the Conference “portrayed racism, and in the end, oppression itself, with an Israeli face…making Durban anti-Zionism, into the radical common sense of the twenty-first century.” Anti-Zionism has become a creed to which all “good people” subscribe, a “unity built around opposition to a universal Jewish threat.” Hirsch and Miller’s detailed explanation of how this pernicious process developed stands as an ominous warning about the future. Miller is a former intern at the Brandeis Center. Israel’s Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945-1949, Jeffrey Herf, Cambridge University Press (2022). This authoritative but eminently readable account of the creation of the state of Israel might well be subtitled, “much of the conventional wisdom about about the founding of the Jewish state is wrong.” As Herf shows, it was the support of the Soviet Union, as much or even more than the United States, that was responsible for Israel’s creation. The most prominent American supporters of a Jewish state were liberals and those today who would be labeled progressives, such as Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Nation’s preeminent correspondent I.F. Stone. To be against Israel’s establishment was seen not only as conservative and reactionary but a rebuff to the newly formed United Nations. A fascinating chapter deals with the forgotten attempt by a minority of allied officials to bring Haj-Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, and an ardent Nazi who spent the war years as a guest of Adolf Hitler in Berlin, to trial for war crimes.