Undeclared Wars with Israel

Jeffrey Herf is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. His publications on modern German history include Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich (Cambridge, 1984); Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys (1997), winner of the American Historical Association's George Lewis Beer Prize; The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust (2006), winner of the National Jewish Book Award; Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World (2009), winner of the bi-annual Sybil Halpern Milton Prize of the German Studies Association in 2011 for work on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. He has also published essays and reviews on history and politics in Partisan Review, The New Republic, The Times of Israel, and The American Interest.

• 1. Introduction; 2. East Germany and the Six-Day War of June 1967; 3. An anti-Israel left emerges in West Germany: the conjuncture of June 1967; 4. Diplomatic breakthrough to military alliance: East Germany, the Arab states, and the PLO 1969–73; 5. Palestinian terrorism in 1972: Lod airport, the Munich Olympics, and responses; 6. Formalizing the East German alliance with the PLO and the Arab states: 1973; 7. Political warfare at the United Nations during the Yom Kippur War of 1973; 8. 1974: Palestinian terrorist attacks on Kiryat Shmona and Maalot and responses in East Germany, West Germany, Israel, the United States, and the United Nations; 9. The UN 'Zionism is racism' revolution of November 10, 1975; 10. The Entebbe hijacking and 'selection' and the West German 'revolutionary cells'; 11. An alliance deepens: East Germany, the Arab states, and the PLO: 1978–82; 12. Terrorism from Lebanon to Israel's 'operation peace for Galilee': 1977–82; 13. Loyal friends in defeat: 1983–9 and after; 14. Conclusion.

'An excellent review of the growing hostility of the German left towards Israel during the last fifty years.' Walter Laqueur