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the Hello and welcome to another episode of Politics Theory Other.

My name is Alex Doherty and my guest today is Hill Arkhead.

In today's interview, we talked about Hill's new book,

Friends of Israel, the backlash against Palestine Solidarity, the first book-length treatment of the

pro-Israel lobby in Britain. We talked about the strategies that Israel and pro-Israel organizations

in Britain have adopted to deflect criticism of the ongoing occupation and the dispossession

of the Palestinian people and their efforts to undermine the boycott divestment and sanctions

campaign. Hill explained why they characterise contemporary Zionism as a social movement from above

and how apartheid era South Africa was a for some of the public relations techniques

adopted by Israel

and its outriders. We also talked about John Meersheimer and Stephen Waltz's 2007 book,

The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, and where Hill's analysis differs from theirs.

We also discussed the pitfalls of writing on this topic at a time of increasing anti-Semitism

around the world, and finally we talked about why parliamentary support for Israel was once

stronger within the Labour Party than the Conservatives, and what the role of the Labour

and Conservative Friends of Israel groups is today.

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