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Alan Johnson

Alan Johnson is the editor of Fathom Magazine and senior research fellow at BICOM. He was, for many years, a professor of political theory at Edge Hill University.

The Anti-Imperialism of Idiots

The Anti-Imperialism of Idiots

Alan Johnson

While it is customary to trace the Left’s bitter divorce from Israel to the Six-Day War of 1967, Susie Linfield shows that in some cases the relationship breakdown began earlier, in the late 1950s, when the New Left, having given up faith in the Soviet Union, decided anticolonialism is socialism,