{"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\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-?-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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael R. Fischbach\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of History at Randolph-Macon College. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eBlack Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color\u003c\/i\u003e (Stanford, 2018), among other works.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50339508748562,"sku":"9781503611061","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bc962e27-6651-4091-843a-479f9157be6f.jpg?v=1728006167","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-movement-and-the-middle-east-how-the-arab-israeli-conflict-divided-the-american-left-9781503611061","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}