{"product_id":"the-movement-and-the-middle-east-how-the-arab-israeli-conflict-divided-the-american-left-9781503611061","title":"The Movement and the Middle East: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Divided the American Left","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Michael R. Fischbach\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: United States - 20th Century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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-à-vis the Middle East.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Movement and the Middle East\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45411231531159,"sku":"9781503611061","price":2334.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781503611061.webp?v=1767917690","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-movement-and-the-middle-east-how-the-arab-israeli-conflict-divided-the-american-left-9781503611061","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}