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Fathom Highlight: Mitchell Cohen on Perry Anderson's House of Zion / 13 April / 2016

Perry Anderson’s long essay ‘The House of Zion’ was published in the November-December 2016 issue of New Left Review, the ‘flagship journal of the Western Left’. Fathom invited Mitchell Cohen, Michael Walzer, Shany Mor, Cary Nelson, John Strawson, Einat Wilf and Cary Nelson to respond to Anderson. In this Fathom Highlight Mitchell Cohen, a US social democrat and long-time co-editor of Dissent Magazine, reads Anderson’s essay symptomatically, as an example of long-standing intellectual maladies on the far-left. Anderson has reduced the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to no more than a facet of a battle between the House of Imperialism and the House of Anti-Imperialism. Politically, he wants war against Israel. A credible left, argues Cohen, can do better than that. We include the other contributions to the Symposium below.

Perry Anderson’s House of Zion: A Symposium | Mitchell Cohen

by Mitchell Cohen

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Perry Anderson and the House of Anti-Imperialism Editorial introduction to the Symposium: Perry Anderson’s long essay, ‘The House of Zion’, was published in the November-December 2015 issue of New Left Review, the ‘flagship journal of the Western Left’. Fathom invited Mitchell Cohen, Shany Mor, Cary Nelson, John Strawson, Michael Walzer and Einat Wilf to respond to Anderson’s essay.  Available online, and given the status of an NLR ‘Editorial’, it was the Marxist equivalent of a Papal edict. Anderson was the journal’s long-time...
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Perry Anderson’s House of Zion: A Symposium | Cary Nelson
by Cary Nelson

Perry Anderson’s Reactionary Fantasy Editorial introduction to the Symposium: Perry Anderson’s long essay, ‘The House of Zion’, was published in the November-December 2015 issue of...
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Perry Anderson’s House of Zion: A Symposium | Einat Wilf
by Einat Wilf

Anderson’s One-State Solution ignores the certain fate of the Jews Editorial introduction to the Symposium: Perry Anderson’s long essay, ‘The House of Zion’, was published...
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Perry Anderson’s House of Zion: A Symposium | John Strawson
by John Strawson

One-State is a Trap for Two Peoples in Palestine and Israel Editorial introduction to the Symposium: Perry Anderson’s long essay, ‘The House of Zion’, was...
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Perry Anderson’s House of Zion: A Symposium | Michael Walzer
by Michael Walzer

Perry Anderson’s War Editorial introduction to the Symposium: Perry Anderson’s long essay, ‘The House of Zion’, was published in the November-December 2015 issue of New...
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Perry Anderson’s House of Zion: A Symposium | Shany Mor
by Shany Mor

Perry Anderson’s Theological Anti-Zionism Editorial introduction to the Symposium: Perry Anderson’s long essay, ‘The House of Zion’, was published in the November-December 2015 issue of...
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