Book Review: Israel Alone by Bernard-Henri Lévy

 

This is not just a book, it’s a cry of defiance from one of the last intellectuals in the West who still remembers how to draw a line in the sand. Bernard-Henri Lévy’s Israel Alone is a firebrand defence of the Jewish state in a world where moral clarity has been traded for cowardly posturing and fashionable hatred. While the Left parades its anti-Zionism as virtue, Lévy torches the hypocrisy with unapologetic precision. He is not writing for applause. He’s writing for truth. And the truth is this: Israel stands almost entirely alone against a tidal wave of global slander, abandonment, and betrayal. This book shreds the liberal illusion that Israel’s critics are merely "concerned" with justice. They are not. They are complicit in an antisemitic hate movement dressed up in academic robes and progressive slogans. Lévy exposes them. The UN, the NGOs, the journalists, the campus mobs, he names and shames them as collaborators in a new blood libel, where Jews are once again cast as villains for daring to defend themselves. Lévy’s strength is not only his clarity of thought, but his refusal to bow to the false gods of neutrality and nuance. He knows we are not in an age of debate, but an age of decision. And the decision is this: stand with civilisation or collapse into barbarism. Stand with Israel, or be swept away with the mobs who chant for its destruction. While the world celebrates weakness and appeasement, Israel Alone reminds us that strength, courage, and loyalty still matter. Lévy praises Israel not just as a state, but as a symbol, of resistance, of survival, and of civilisational pride. In a continent that surrendered its backbone decades ago, Israel still fights. This book is a polemical dagger plunged straight into the heart of the West’s cowardice. And it’s about time. Verdict: Required reading for anyone serious about defending Western civilisation. A rallying cry for moral clarity in an age of moral rot. Lévy proves why we must never apologise for standing with Israel and why the Left must be exposed for siding with its enemies. If you call yourself a defender of the West, you either stand with Israel, or you are already on your knees.