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Non-Zionists With a Tailwind
We seem to be witnessing the remarkable early stirrings of a
reevaluation of Zionism among American Jewish intellectuals. This
process is parallel and perhaps symbiotic to the rethinking of America’s
foreign policy relationship with Israel sparked by the best-selling
The Israel Lobby and American Foreign Policy. But
Steve Walt and John Mearsheimer, as fairly standard two state solution
advocates, don’t differ very much in their prescriptions from views
typically expressed by State Department or most postwar American
presidents. Now however, there’s a new phenomenon. The past months have
seen publication of Max Blumenthal’s excoriating journalistic portrait
of the advance of a quasi-fascist Israeli Right in
Goliath; the
New York Times‘
spotlighting of
a small but important group of religious and orthodox Jews who are
non-Zionist or nearly so; and now John Judis’s remarkable analysis of
the forces converging on Harry Truman at the time of Israel’s birth in
Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict.
These are all the work of American Jews questionning whether Israel
should exist as “Jewish state” with all that entails for the systemic
violation of Palestinian rights. The
very intensity with
which the enforcers of mainstream “pro-Israel” orthodoxy have responded
to this wave is itself a sign that the new voices have something of a
tailwind behind them and are likely to be an increasingly important part
of both the American Jewish and the broader American debate.
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