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November 2, 2022

Understanding the Brief Moment When the Soviet Bloc Sided with Israel, and the U.S. Government against It

The first Western diplomat to equate Zionism with racism.

Just as his anti-Semitism was reaching its post-World War II peak, Joseph Stalin decided to throw his weight behind the UN plan to create a Jewish state in Mandatory Palestine. Meanwhile, the entire American foreign-policy establishment was against the idea—and had to be dragged along against its will by a firmly committed Harry Truman. These events are the subject of Jeffrey Herf’s new book Israel’s Moment. Robert Satloff writes in his review:

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