David Horowitz is better known among a younger generation for his various campaigns on college campuses around the country. In the last few years he has galvanized racist students by funding ads in college newspapers against African-American reparations and the Palestinian movement. More recently he has pushed forward a campaign for an “Academic Bill of Rights” with the help of his student front group “Students for Academic Freedom,” which would empower the state to police teachers and students in what they can and cannot discuss. For those with longer memories Horowitz is another example of a former authoritarian leftist turned conservative.

For those of you not familiar with the intellect and personality of Andrea Dworkin, you will be introduced to her by reading this book. This radical western feminist, whose works include Women Hating, Pornography: Men Possessing Women, and Intercourse, are all filled with descriptions of what she considers the inherently violent nature of male sexual relations towards women. This trend continues in Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women’s Liberation where she compares the oppression of Jews historically (with particular attention to the Jewish holocaust) with violence against women internationally, with specific emphasis on Jewish and Palestinian women in Israel and the Occupied Territories. Chapters include: Jew-Hate/Women Hate, Pogrom/Rape, and Palestinians/Prostituted Women. As her book title suggests, Jews were racially scapegoated for societal ills in the pogroms of Russia and Nazi Germany just as women are subordinated through their gender in patriarchal societies, particularly in the Middle East.

With the recent emergence of the Israeli-Palestinian “peace process,” there has been much talk in U.S. and Israeli government and media circles of what is called “the demographic problem.” While the meaning of this term is often mystified by its development and humanitarian connotations, it essentially functions as Zionist code for the following question: “What are we going to do about the increasing number of brown people who are not pleased to live in our ‘democratic’ white, white Israel?”