Knowing Too Much: Why the American Jewish Romance With Israel is Coming to an End
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- Synopsis
- Traditionally, American Jews have been liberal in their political outlook; indeed African-Americans are the only ethnic group more likely to vote Democrat in US elections. Over the past half century, however, attitudes on one topic have stood in sharp contrast to this group's generally progressive stance: support for Israel. Despite Israel's record of militarism, illegal settlements and human rights violations, American Jews have, stretching back to the 1960s, remained largely steadfast supporters of the Jewish "homeland." But, as Norman Finkelstein explains in an elegantly-argued and richly-textured new book, this is now beginning to change. Reports by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the United Nations, and books by commentators as prominent and authoritative as President Jimmy Carter, Stephen Walt, John Mearsheimer and Peter Beinart, have increasingly pinpointed the fundamental illiberalism of Israeli policies. In the light of these exposes, the support of American Jews for Israel has begun to fray. This erosion has been particularly marked among younger members of the community. In successive chapters that combine Finkelstein's customary meticulous research with polemical brio, Knowing Too Much sets the work of defenders of Israel such as Jeffrey Goldberg, Michael Oren, Dennis Ross and Benny Morris against the historical record, showing their claims to be ever more tendentious. As growing numbers of American Jews come to see the speciousness of such arguments and recognize Israel's record as simply indefensible, Finkelstein points to the opening of new possibilities for political advancement in a region that, for decades, has been stuck in a gridlock of injustice and suffering. Norman G. Finkelstein is the author of seven books: What Gandhi Says, "This Time We Went Too Far", Beyond Chutzpah, The Holocaust Industry, Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, A Nation on Trial (with Ruth Bettina Birn), and The Rise and Fall of Palestine.
- Copyright:
- 2012
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 472 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781935928775
- Publisher:
- OR Books, LLC
- Date of Addition:
- 04/10/13
- Copyrighted By:
- Norman G. Finkelstein
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Sociology
- Submitted By:
- Deborah Murray
- Proofread By:
- Shirley Koda
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.