Introduction : A double grief, and a hope

Part one. Europeans. Hannah Arendt : left, right, or wrong?

Arthur Koestler : the Zionist as anti-semite

Part two. Socialists. Maxime Rodinson : Marxism, Zionism, and the Arab world

Isaac Deutscher : a very Jewish Jew

Albert Memmi : Zionism as national liberation

Fred Halliday : the journey of a '68er

Part three. Americans. I.F. Stone : the limits of Isaiah

Noam Chomsky : the responsibility of intellectuals

Conclusion : The genius for failure.