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Colin Shindler

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Colin Shindler is an Emeritus Professor at SOAS, University of London and founding chairman of the European Association of Israel Studies. He is the editor of Israel and the World Powers: Diplomatic Alliances and International Relations beyond the Middle East (I. B. Tauris/ 2014).

Colin Shindler's articles

Book Review | The Decline of the Left Wing in Israel: Yossi Beilin and the Politics of the Peace Process

By Colin Shindler
 In an epoch of reaction, racism and populism, many ask how did Israel lose its way? Why did... Read more > March 2020

IsraelVotes2019 | The Far Right in Israeli Politics

By Colin Shindler
 Professor Colin Shindler argues that pragmatism by a Right wing government has often led to an ideological schism... Read more > March 2019

Book Review | In Search of Israel: The history of an idea

By Colin Shindler
 The renowned sociologist, Zygmunt Bauman, a refugee from the anti-Semitic campaign in Communist Poland during the 1960s and... Read more > June 2018

Book Review | Jews and Leftist Politics: Judaism, Israel, Anti-Semitism and Gender

By Colin Shindler
 This important book is based on an international conference on Jews and the Left held in New York... Read more > February 2018

Book Review | The Left in Disarray

By Colin Shindler
 Most of the time, the key terms of the anti-capitalist Left have no clear meaning, they express and... Read more > Autumn 2017

Book Review | The Resistible Rise of Benjamin Netanyahu

By Colin Shindler
 Admiration and respect are not words usually attached to the persona of Benjamin Netanyahu by either friend or... Read more > Spring 2017

Book Review | Ben-Gurion: His Later Years in the Political Wilderness

By Colin Shindler
 This latest work from Avi Shilon describes in detail Ben-Gurion’s last decade – from stepping down as prime... Read more > Autumn 2016

Book Review│Socialism of Fools: Capitalism and Modern Anti-Semitism

By Colin Shindler
 The Italian academic, Michele Battini examines the gradual transformation of the traditional Christian anti-Semitic charge of usury into... Read more > Article Summer 2016

Book Review | Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel

By Colin Shindler
 Berl Katznelson, one of Labour Zionism’s ideological founders described David Ben-Gurion as ‘history’s gift to the Jewish people.’... Read more > Winter 2015

Book Review: Theodor Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State

By Colin Shindler
 In his autobiography, Chaim Weizmann commented that Theodor Herzl was ‘not of the people’ despite being an inspiring... Read more > Winter 2014

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