The Movement and the Middle East: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Divided the American Left - Couverture souple

Fischbach, Michael R.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 150361106X ISBN 13 : 9781503611061

Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2019

Synopsis

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-à-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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Michael R. Fischbach is Professor of History at Randolph-Macon College. He is the author of Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color (Stanford, 2018), among other works.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 150361106X
• ISBN 13: 9781503611061
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
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