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Book Talk:

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

With Dr. Michael Fischbach
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Wednesday, March 4, 2020
5:30-7:00 p.m.
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About the Book:

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 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.

The Movement and the Middle East 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.

Read our review of The Movement and the Middle East in the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs here ([link removed]) !

About the Author:

Michael R. Fischbach is professor of history at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia, where he has taught since 1992 after receiving his doctorate in modern Middle Eastern history from Georgetown University. He researches issues relating to land and property ownership in the modern Middle East, particularly in connection with Israel/Palestine, Jordan, and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Fischbach is the author of Jewish Property Claims Against Arab Countries (Columbia University Press, 2008); The Peace Process and Palestinian Refugee Claims: Addressing Claims for Property Compensation and Restitution (United States Institute of Peace Press, 2006); Records of Dispossession: Palestinian Refugee Property and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (Columbia University Press, 2003); and State, Society, and Land in Jordan (Brill, 2000), among other publications. His two books on Palestinian refugee property have been translated into Arabic.

Fischbach also researches how the Arab-Israeli conflict divided the black freedom movement and left-wing white radicals in America during the 1960s and 1970s. Prior to publishing The Movement and the Middle East ([link removed]) , he authored Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color ([link removed]) (Stanford University Press, 2018).

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