The Movement and the Middle East : How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Divided the American Left Paperback / softback
by Michael R. Fischbach
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The Arab-Israeli conflict constituted a serious problem for the American Left in the 1960s: pro-Palestinian activists hailed the Palestinian struggle against Israel as part of a fundamental restructuring of the global imperialist order, while pro-Israeli leftists held a less revolutionary worldview that understood Israel as a paragon of democratic socialist virtue.
This intra-left debate was in part doctrinal, in part generational.
But further woven into this split were sometimes agonizing questions of identity.
Jews were disproportionately well-represented in the Movement, and their personal and communal lives could deeply affect their stances vis-Ã -vis the Middle East. The Movement and the Middle East offers the first assessment of the controversial and ultimately debilitating role of the Arab-Israeli conflict among left-wing activists during a turbulent period of American history.
Michael R. Fischbach draws on a deep well of original sources—from personal interviews to declassified FBI and CIA documents—to present a story of the left-wing responses to the question of Palestine and Israel.
He shows how, as the 1970s wore on, the cleavages emerging within the American Left widened, weakening the Movement and leaving a lasting impact that still affects progressive American politics today.
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- Pages:312 pages
- Publisher:Stanford University Press
- Publication Date:05/11/2019
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- ISBN:9781503611061
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:312 pages
- Publisher:Stanford University Press
- Publication Date:05/11/2019
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- ISBN:9781503611061