The Big Lie: On Terror, Antisemitism, and Identity

Using Michel Houellebecq’s novel Platform and his own long-neglected Jewish roots as his starting points, Solway investigates today’s central predicament: the onslaught of theologically inspired terrorist movements, which he believes thrive parasitically on the left-liberal belief system that dominates the sensibility of the West.rnrnSolway insists that terror and anti-Semitism are intimately related, and that our very civilization is under prolonged attack. The Big Lie is at once a controversial analysis of our present situation and a polemical call to reconsider the concepts through which we react to the world.rn