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Mayer has been critical of the policies of the United States government. As a Marxist, he wrote a 2001 essay, stating that "since 1947 America has been the chief and pioneering perpetrator of 'preemptive' state terror, exclusively in the Third World and therefore widely dissembled."
Mayer's latest book, Plowshares into Swords is an anti-Zionist and pro-Palestinian account of Israeli history, tracing what Mayer regards as the degradation and denegation of Jewry in general and Zionism in particular in face of what Mayer sees as Israeli colonial aggression against the Palestinians.
In a favorable review, the British writer Geoffrey Wheatcroft called Plowshares into Swords an enlightening account of Israeli history that traced the "...chauvinistic and brutalising tendencies of Zionism". However, in a negative review of Plowshares into Swords, British scholar Simon Goldhill called Plowshares into Swords a book of little value and criticized Mayer for his anti-Israeli bias, arguing that Mayer ignored Arab anti-Semitism, falsely portrayed the Six Day War as an imperialist power play by the United States, for claiming that all Western criticism of the Islamic world is self-interested, and for describing anti-Western feeling in the Arab world as "righteous anger"
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