The Movement and the Middle East (eBook)

How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Divided the American Left

Michael R. Fischbach (Autor)

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2019
312 Seiten
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-1107-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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-a-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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.11.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: 1960s • anti-Vietnam War movement • Arab-Israeli Conflict • Jews • left-wing parties • New Left • Old Left • radical politics • Student Movement • women’s movement
• ISBN-10: 1-5036-1107-8 / 1503611078
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5036-1107-8 / 9781503611078