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Jewish Opposition: Israel and Book

jewish opposition: Given all of the books that have been published over the years regarding Israel, what compelled you to write What Is Modern Israel My Tokyo publisher, according to Huffington Post Canada. Impressed by the success of the Japanese version of my earlier book, A Threat from Within: A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism, in his country , he asked me to write about modern Israel. Professor Rabkin earlier book on the subject of Israel, entitled A Threat from Within: A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism, was nominated for the Governor General Literary Award and for the Hecht Prize for Studies of Zionism. It was to be a shorter and more accessible book, aimed at young readers. In the present book I had to go further. In A Threat from Within, I had examined the reasons why Zionism was initially rejected not only by rabbis but also by the vast majority of Jews. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.