of the house in question, the Grand Mufti, Hajj Ammin al- Husseini, had in stirring things up. He didn't just convene international conferences, as Judis notes. Throughout the 1920s, he distributed The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and regularly taught hatred of the Jews. In 1929, as Efraim Karsh h

blame for lending his nation's support to a movement that was most unworthy of it. Genesis isn't a rant, but it is a profoundly anti-Zionist book. Judis bitterly denounces Zionism as a "settler-colonialist" movement, employing an all- too-familiar term derived from what his colleague at The New Repub

o see clearly the morass into which his misguided Middle Eastern policy would ultimately lead the United States. But Truman is guilty, according to Judis, not only of a failure of perception. He deserves blame for lending his nation's support to a movement that was most unworthy of it. Genesis isn't

requently at The Ne= Republic. Instead of moralizing about the cast of characters involved in =his complicated history, as others have already done, Judis looks at the enduring themes from the "Genesis=94 that influence today's Middle East. Since the end of Ot=oman rule at the conclusion of World War

impact of lobbying in the West on Middle East policy. T=e most effective lobbyists were those who advocated for the Zionist cause, who believed, as Judis notes, that Pa=estine's Jews "were still engaged in a war for survival" in a war-to=n world that turned them away. Pro-Israel activist= learned to