Part 1: PM examines the Shoah and Israeli identity, how it changed to a sort of muscular victim. He talks about the sway of Zionism in pre-/post-colonial Asia, when nationalism flared. Like PM’s other books, he comes down hard on the hypocrisy of the West and its racial double standard. The danger is racist Ethno-nationalism, which reminds me of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s argument in The Message.