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America's Fight Against Zionism as Racism
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235x156mm
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20 December 2012
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- A scholarly work that brings together two areas of study: American history, particularly the Reagan Revolution, and the history of Zionism
- Original research included many interviews with key figures, including Moynihan's former assistant Suzanne Weaver Garment, his UN colleague Len Garment, his mentor and friend Norman Podhoretz, his ideological ally Carl Gershman, and his wife Elizabeth Moynihan
- No major work has been written about Moynihan and the 'Zionism is Racism' resolution
On November 10, 1975, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution declaring Zionism a form of racism. The move shocked millions, especially in the United States— the country largely responsible for founding the UN. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the American Ambassador to the UN, denounced this attack on Israel as an anti-Semitic assault on democracy and stood up to the Soviet-backed alliance of Communist dictatorships and Third World autocracies that supported the resolution. His eloquent stand brought him celebrity in the U.S., but ultimately shortened his tenure at the UN by alienating American allies, adversaries, and much of the
foreign policy establishment—including Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Nevertheless, Moynihan's moment was a turning point: a harbinger of a shift in American culture and politics that would culminate in the Reagan Revolution.
Moynihan paved the way for a more muscular, idealistic, neoconservative foreign policy and for a new style of defiant "cowboy" diplomacy. In this book, Gil Troy argues that America's idea of itself—still torn, in the mid-'70s, between post-Vietnam and -Watergate defeatism and a growing sense of optimism—changed with Moynihan, altering both the left and the right in ways that continue to play out in the 21st century. Much of the rhetoric of this era survives in domestic foreign policy debates and the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine,
suggesting that Moynihan's struggle has much to reveal about American politics and its position on the world stage.Readership: Students and scholars of American history, Jewish history, the history of the Cold War, the history of the UN, the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the history of liberalism and conservatism.
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Gil Troy, Professor of History, McGill University Gil Troy is Professor of History at McGill University, a Visiting Scholar at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, DC and a Shalom Hartman Research Fellow in Jerusalem. He is the author of six books on American history, including See How They Ran: The Changing Role of Presidential Candidates, Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s, Leading from the Center: Why Moderates Make the Best Presidents, and The Reagan Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
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Introduction: Raising Hell: Moynihan's Moment
Prelude: 1945: "We the Peoples of the United Nations"
Chapter 1: 1975: "The United States in Opposition" or the New World Disorder
Chapter 2: The Making of a Warrior-Diplomat: Pat Moynihan as Insider and Outsider
Chapter 3: The Sixties' "False Lexicon of Political Cliches" : Racializing Conflict and anti-Zionism with White Guilt
Chapter 4:"Scary Doings at Mexico City": The International Women's Year Debacle and the Third World World's Che Guevara Rules
Chapter 5: "We've Got to Stop This" Moynihan on the Move: October, 1975
Chapter 6: Oom, Shmoom: "Where are your bloody Jews?"
Chapter 7: "The United States does not acknowledge, it will not abide by, it will never acquiesce in this infamous act." November, 1975
Chapter 8: "I AM A ZIONIST": The Liberal Backlash - Against the UN
Chapter 9: This is "not the OK Corral and I am hardly Wyatt Earp": The Diplomatic Backlash - Against Moynihan
Epilogue 1: "A Resolution Born out of Bitter Ideological Confrontation among the Nations of the World"
Epilogue 2: Durban 2001: "The Terrible Lie" with "Terrible Consequences": The Return of Zionism Is Racism in the Delegitmization Derby, the Destruction Dysfunction, and the New Anti-Semitism
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