Dr Philip Mendes is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy & Community Development in the Department of Social Work, Faculty of Medicine, Monash University. He has been a social work and social policy practitioner and educator for 20 years, with particular experience in the fields of child abuse and child protection, income security, and illicit drugs. He has numerous publications in local and international journals, and is the author or co-author of five books including Australia’s Welfare Wars (2003), *Harm Minimisation, Zero Tolerance and Beyond: The Politics of Illicit Drugs in Australia* (2004), and *Inside the Welfare Lobby: A history of the Australian Council of Social Service* (2006).

It combines the force of a rigorously argued polemic with the authority of a properly footnoted academic paper, and in just 205 pages manages to provide a historic overview of the changing relationship between Zionism, Israel and the Western left; useful case studies of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) in Australia, the UK and the US; and a progressive dissection of the motives, ideology and methodology of the boycotters."- Fathom