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

by Michael R. Fischbach

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150361106X
• ISBN13: 9781503611061
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"