11/3 see Madrid bombings
7/7 see London bombings
9/11 xi, 12, 130, 140, 146, 155
‘Atta’s Document’ 149–51
Cunningham and 192–4
Abraham, Karl 82
Abu-Nasser, Mohammed 133–4
Adorno, Theodor 173
African National Congress (ANC) 170
Aisha, Darine Abu 133
Akiba, Rabbi 226
Al-Ahram and Al-Hayat 193, 195
al-Hams, Iman 216
Al-Nejar, Fatima 132
Al-Qaeda 130
al-Rantisi, Abdul Aziz 133
Algeria 206
Ali, Tariq 27
Amichai, Yehuda 124
Amir, Yigal 94
Amnesty International 40–41, 57
ANC see African National Congress
anti-Zionism and 195
in France 40
racism and 40–41
Antwerp 58
Appelfeld, Aharon 217
Aqeel, Kamal 128
Arabs 104–5
see also Iraq; Iran; Palestine; Shi’ites
Arendt, Hannah 3, 46, 140, 198, 205
on Eichmann 86–7, 142, 145–8, 150–51, 202
Armenia 46
Aronoff, Myron 95
Ascherman, Arik 83
Ascherson, Neil 22
Ashatiya, Rula 117
Ashrawi, Hanan 131
Assad, Hany Abu 129
Assman, Jan 80–81
Assyria 46
asylum seekers 41
Atta, Mohammed 149–52
Auschwitz 55, 204, 214, 221, 223–4, 227
Azi, Mahmed 94
Balfour declaration (1917) 206
Barak, Ehud 11–2
Barghouti, Maroud 39
Beauvoir, Simone de 209–12
Beer, Gillian 144
Belgium 200–205
Bell, Mary 160
Ben-Gurion, David 49, 95, 119, 135, 218–9
Ben-Zvi, Yitzhak 26
Bernays, Martha 63
Bernays, Minna 165
Bersani, Leo 27–8
Bialik, Chaim Nachman 106
attack on Iraq 23–4, 155, 166–7
Bollas, Christopher 20, 152, 164, 189, 215
bombings
in London see London bombings
in Madrid see Madrid bombings
suicide see suicide bombings
Bowen, Elizabeth 56
Bulger, James 160
‘axis of evil’ speech 146
Blair and 166–7
Butler, Judith 6, 214–5, 219, 222
Butler-Sloss, Elizabeth 160
Callil, Carmen 11
Cameron, Edwin 177
Carr, Maxine 160
Carroll, Rory 173
Chikane, Moss 170
children 117
Churchill, Winston 22
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) 160, 164
Clark, David 23–4
Clinton, Bill 184
clones 188
see also doubling
Coetzee, J.M. 9, 141, 142–6, 152–5
Cohen, Ya’acov 94
collaborators 52
colonialism 206
Comité de Defense des Juifs 204
Cunningham, Michael 182–9
Darwish, Mahmoud 127
Dayan, Moshe 220
demolitions 83
on secret Jews 17–18
Dickey, Christopher 131–2
Dor, Daniel 219
Druckman, Haim 41
Eder, David 85
Eichmann, Adolf 142
Arendt on 3, 142, 145–8, 150–51
Eitington, Max 7
El-Sarraj, Eyad 12, 128, 129, 134, 135
Ellis, Ruth 142
England, Lynndie 160
Eshkol, Levi 95
Esposito, John 151
ethics 227–8
ethnic cleansing 22
evil 139–55
exile (Galut) 48
Ezrahi, Sidra 219
Fackenheim, Emil 223
Fadlallah, Sheikh 130
Fahy, Sandra 198
see also Nazism
FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) 149
fear 151–2
Feinstein, Dianne 160
Finkelstein, Norman 53
Fitzgerald, Frances 140
Flem, Lydia 77
Folsom, Ed 184
football 94
fortresses 57–8
Frear, Stephen 188
Freud, Anna 7
on anti-Semitism 63–4, 81–2, 87–8
Bollas on 189
Brecht and 72
Cunningham and 186–7
on evil 166
on fear 151–2
on Israel 7
on Judaism 74–88
on mass psychology 62–8, 70–71, 75, 159, 161, 165–7
on Moses 75–88
on narcissism 161
politics of 23
on the uncanny 165
on Zionism 17–18, 22, 48–9, 74, 76
Zweig and 18–25, 28–9, 31–36, 76
writings: ‘Analysis Terminable and Interminable’ 31, 33; Civilization and its Discontents 151–2; ‘A Difficulty in the Path of Psychoanalysis’ 23; ‘The Disillusionment of the War’ 79; The Ego and the Id 32; The Future of an Illusion 27, 65, 70–75, 166; Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety 31; ‘The Mystic Writing Pad’ 33; ‘A Religious Experience’ 74–5
Friedlander, Saul 219
Fruman, Rabbi 221
Galileo 72
Galoot (Exile) 134
Galut (exile) 48
Gauss, Christian 198
Geisel, Eike 8
Geistigkeit (intellectuality/spirituality) 85
Geneva accord 118
Gilchrist, Anne 189
Godard, Jean-Luc 196
Goldstein, Baruch 131
Goldstein, Bluma 82
Gordimer, Nadine 12, 13, 168–80
Greenberg, Uri Zvi 220
Grossman, David 10, 13, 40, 111–24, 196, 217
Grubrich–Simitis, Ilse 215
Ha’aretz 10, 13, 17, 40, 83, 116, 117, 129, 131, 132
Haam, Ahad 198
Haganah 94
Halkin, Hillel 110
Halutz, Dan 216
Hamemdeh, Mahmoud 117
Hareven, Shulamith 6, 41, 45, 214, 219, 221
on Palestinian resistance 133–4
on Zionism 50–56
Hausner, Gideon 53
Herald (Karachi) see Karachi Herald
Herzl, Theodor 44, 47, 93–4, 106, 113
Higgs, Marietta 142
Hill, Geoffrey 223
Hitler, Adolf 46, 143, 148, 214
HIV/Aids 176–9
Hizbollah 127–8
Grossman on 121
Israel and 5–6, 52–5, 214–22, 223–4
see also anti-Semitism; Eichmann; Hitler; Nazism
Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Law (Yad Vashem) 52, 217
homosexuality 27
Hoon, Geoff 160
Huntley, Ian 160
IDF see Israel Defense Force
Idris, Wada 133
intifada
attack on (2003) 23, 80, 125, 155, 166–7
Ishiguro 188
Islam see Shi’ites
Ismaeel, Donia ElAmal 129
Israel
criticised by Gillian Rose 227
deaths 116
founding of 43
Grossman on 111–5
Holocaust and 5–6, 52–5, 214–22, 223–4
imperialism and 47
invasion of Lebanon (1982) 127
Six-Day War (1967) 200
treatment of survivors 217–9
Israel Defense Force (IDF) 54, 116, 134, 216
Itzhaki, Arie 135
Jabotinsky, Ze’ev (Vladimir) 13–14, 26, 93–107, 126, 220
Jaffa Military Court 112–3, 116
Jaffe, L. 50
Jafri, Hasan M. 196
Jaradat, Hanadi 132
Jews
apartheid and 175
Derrida on 17–18
‘non-Jewish’ 120
in Russia 101–2
see also Holocaust; Israel; Judaism
Jones, Ernest 72
Josef, Franz 62
Jospa, Gert 204
Joyce, James 123
Judaism
in Gordimer 171
versus postmodernism 224–7
Kabbalah 81
Kadima 93
Kafka, Franz 120
Kaniuk, Yoram 215–6
Karachi Herald 196
Katz, Michael 97
Keren Ha-Yesod 50
Khoumeini, Ayatollah 129–30
Kimmerling, Baruch 115
Kishinev pogrom 106
Kohn, Hans 198
Krog, Antje 173
Lacan, Jacques 56
Lazare, Bernard 113
Le Bon, Gustave 64
leaders 67–8
Leclaire, Serge 187
Leibowitz, Yeshayahu 44
Lekota, Mosiuoa 170
Lenin, Vladimir Ilych 196–7, 200, 205
Levi, Primo 214
Levin, Harry 179
Levinas, Emmanuel 226
Levy, Rachel 134
Lewinsky, Monica 184
Liebman, Marcel 3, 4, 8, 200–207, 221–2
Likud 93
Lincoln, Bruce 150–51
London bombings (7/7; 7 July 2005) 182
love 66–8
Low, Barbara 85
Lueger, Karl 62
MacNamara, Robert 127
Madrid train bombings (11 March 2004) 182
Makiya, Kanan 149–50
Malines 204–5
Mandela, Nelson 177
Mandelson, Peter 182
Marcuse, Herbert 72
Margalit, Avishai 129
Marxism 200
see also socialism; Stalinism
Masalqa, Shalfic 129
McCarthy, Rory 133
McDougall, W. 68
Mda, Zakes 172
Meir, Golda 51
Meitlis, Jacob 87
Menninger, Karl 125
messianism 219
Meyer, Eduard 78
Midrash 226
Mneimneh, Hassan 149–50
Molefe, Pop 170
morality 227–8
Moses 75–88
Murray, Braham 223
Musa, Imad 150
Muslims see Shi’ites
Mussolini, Benito 211
Nakhimovsky, Alice 97
narcissism 63
biology and 44–5
Freud on 74–6
see also Eichmann; Hitler; Holocaust
Némirovsky, Irène 1–2
Netanyahu, Benjamin 114
Nkoli, Simon 177
Norman, Edward A. 105
Northern Ireland 160
nuclear weapons 168
Obeidi, Yasser 132
Overy, Richard 167
Palestine
Liebman on 207
the occupation 12–13, 34, 115, 118
Zionism and 193–9
Paole Zion (Socialist Zionist Party) 6–7, 30
Parekh, Bhikhu 44
Peace Now 50
Perry, Yaakov 196
Peru 18
Poe, Edgar Allan 97
postmodernism 225–6
Poussin, Nicolas 225
see also Holocaust; ethnic cleansing
Rath, Matthias 177
Rawls, John 45
Reich, Wilhelm 72
repression 55
Derrida on 35
Reuter, Christopher 127, 129–31, 133
revolution see Russian Revolution
Rivière, Joan 20
Robert, Marthe 82
Rolnik, Eran 7
Rose, Alison 224
Rose, Gillian 223–8
Roth, Malki 134
Rousseau, Jean–Jacques 148
Rushdie, Salman 194
Russia 101–2
Russian Revolution (1917) 101, 200, 205
Ryce, Rosalind 20
Sachs, Wulf 85
Sadat, Anwar 200
Safouan, Moustapha 167
Said, Edward 10–11, 30, 58, 80, 85, 115
posthumous letter to 193–9
Samuels, Herbert 106
Sarraj see El-Sarraj, Eyad
Schatz, Adam 25
Schmidt, Anton 5
Scholem, Gershom 86–7, 147, 219
Segal, Elitzur 131
Seligman, Adam 219
Sellin, Emat 77
Shahak, Israel 194
Shakespeare, William 30–31, 196, 223
Sharon, Ariel 39, 93, 139, 214
Grossman on 115–7
Sharrett, Moshe 5
Shehadeh, Saleh 216
Shepherd, John 131
Shiffer, Varda 40–41
shifters 139–40
Shklovsky, Viktor 77
Shlaim, Avi 93
Shoah see Holocaust
Shragai, Nadav 131
Sicarii 126
Silvers, Bob 170
Sisulu, Walter 169
Six-Day War (1967) 200
Slovo, Joe 41
Smith, Jane 151
Soueif, Ahdaf 164
South Africa 141–2, 146–7, 154, 169–80
Spanish Inquisition 17
Stanislawski, Michael 97, 102, 106
Stone, Diana 224
Strauss, Leo 226
suicide 125–6
suicide bombings 11, 41, 55, 115, 117, 126–35, 147, 182
Suresh Roberts, Ronald 170, 172
Svi, Shabtai 81
Tabenkin, Moshe 218
Tamari, Salim 118
see also 9/11; London bombings; Madrid bombings; suicide bombings; War against Terror
The Times 175
Thompson, Robert 160
Tlalim, Asher 134
Toit, Bettie du 175–6
Tolstoy, Leo 125
Tomachevsky, Boris 140
Toolis, Kevin 132
torture 164
trauma 215
Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) 176–7
Tutu, Desmond 141
uncanny (unheimlich) 74, 78, 165
Venables, Jon 160
Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet 148
capitalism and 205
Freud on 79–80
see also refuseniks
War against Terror 12
Warsaw Uprising 3, 5, 204, 217, 220
Warschawski, Michael 35
Weizmann, Chaim 43, 48, 95, 104, 107
Wertzberger, Naftali 131
West, Rebecca 166
Winnicott, D.W. 163–4
Woolf, Virginia 120, 174, 184, 211
Wulff, Moshe 7
Yad Vashem see Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Law
Yediot Ahronot 58
Yerushalmi, Yosef 76, 79, 83, 85
Yizhar, S. 47
Zangwill, Israel 49
Zealots 126
Zertal, Idith 3, 6, 52, 217, 222
anti-Semitism and 195
as flawed 13–14
Freud on 17–18, 22, 48–9, 74, 76
Hareven on 50–56
Jacob de Haan and 6–7
Labor 95
Liebman on 200–202, 204, 206–7
London Zionist Conference (1945) 5
Palestine and 193–9
socialists and 204
Zangwill on 49
see also Israel; Jabotinsky; Judaism; Moses
Žižek, Slavoj 32
Zuckerman, Anton 4–5
Zuckerman, Yitzhak 3
Zuckerman, Zivia Lubetkin 3
on de Haan 25–6