Trouble in the Tribe (eBook)

The American Jewish Conflict over Israel

Dov Waxman (Autor)

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2016
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
9781400880355 (ISBN)

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Dov Waxman is professor of political science, international affairs, and Israel studies at Northeastern University. He is the author of The Pursuit of Peace and the Crisis of Israeli Identity and the coauthor of Israel's Palestinians: The Conflict Within.

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How Israel is dividing American JewsTrouble in the Tribe explores the increasingly contentious place of Israel in the American Jewish community. In a fundamental shift, growing numbers of American Jews have become less willing to unquestioningly support Israel and more willing to publicly criticize its government. More than ever before, American Jews are arguing about Israeli policies, and many, especially younger ones, are becoming uncomfortable with Israel's treatment of Palestinians. Dov Waxman argues that Israel is fast becoming a source of disunity for American Jewry, and that a new era of American Jewish conflict over Israel is replacing the old era of solidarity.Drawing on a wealth of in-depth interviews with American Jewish leaders and activists, Waxman shows why Israel has become such a divisive issue among American Jews. He delves into the American Jewish debate about Israel, examining the impact that the conflict over Israel is having on Jewish communities, national Jewish organizations, and on the pro-Israel lobby. Waxman sets this conflict in the context of broader cultural, political, institutional, and demographic changes happening in the American Jewish community. He offers a nuanced and balanced account of how this conflict over Israel has developed and what it means for the future of American Jewish politics.Israel used to bring American Jews together. Now it is driving them apart. Trouble in the Tribe explains why.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.4.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 21 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict • Abraham Foxman • activism • Advocacy group • American Israel Public Affairs Committee • american jews • americans • Americans for Peace Now • Antisemitism in the United States • anti-Zionism • Arab–Israeli conflict • arabs • Ariel Sharon • barack obama • Benjamin Netanyahu • B'nai B'rith • Breira (organization) • Centre-right politics • centrism • Conference of Presidents (Greece) • Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations • conservative judaism • Criticism • East Jerusalem • Ehud Barak • Ehud Olmert • Gaza War (2008–09) • Haaretz • HAMAS • Haredi Judaism • Israel • Israel Hayom • Israeli Jews • Israeli-occupied territories • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Israeli–Palestinian peace process • Israelis • Israeli settlement • Israel Policy Forum • Jeremy Ben-Ami • Jewish and democratic state • Jewish Council for Public Affairs • Jewish Culture • Jewish Defense League • Jewish Federation • Jewish Identity • Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs • Jewish Lobby • Jewish religious movements • Jewish right • Jewish Studies • Jewish Voice for Peace • Jews • J Street • Judaism • Judith Butler • left-wing politics • Liberalism • Likud • lobbying • Malcolm Hoenlein • military campaign • military occupation • Nathan Glazer • Netanyahu • newspaper • Norman Finkelstein • one-state solution • Orthodox Judaism • Palestine Liberation Organization • palestinians • Palestinian territories • Peter Beinart • philanthropy • Political Party • political spectrum • Politician • Politics • Prime Minister of Israel • Protest • Reform Judaism • religious Zionism • Revisionist Zionism • right-wing politics • Sheldon Adelson • State of Palestine • Steven M. Cohen • Tax • terrorism • The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy • The New York Times • two-state solution • UJA-Federation of New York • Union for Reform Judaism • war • West Bank • Yitzhak Rabin • Yitzhak Shamir • Zionism • Zionist Organization of America
• ISBN-13: 9781400880355 / 9781400880355