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Israel’s Descent

Jun 8, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Shlomo Sand |Geoffrey Levin |Joshua Leifer |Shaul Magid

When Ariel Sharon withdrew more than eight thousand Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip in 2005, his principal aim was to consolidate Israel’s colonisation of the West Bank, where the settler population immediately began to increase. But ‘disengagement’ had another purpose: to enable Israel’s air force to bomb Gaza at will, something they could not do when Israeli settlers lived there. The Palestinians of the West Bank have been, it seems, gruesomely lucky.
Our Palestine Question, review: An ode to Jews who uttered difficult words in dark times

Apr 26, 2024 | thejc.com | Geoffrey Levin |Colin Shindler

Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent 1948—1977 By Geoffrey Levin Yale University Press, £25 In the early 1960s, Ben-Gurion implied that, following the founding of the state of Israel, ideological Zionism had lost its meaning. The imperative to emigrate and build up the Hebrew republic had been replaced by support in the diaspora for successive Israeli governments, bolstered by an unquestioning devotion to a broad Israelism.
Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978

Mar 15, 2024 | wrmea.org | Election Year--All Senators |Geoffrey Levin |Yale Press |Allan C. Brownfeld

All books featured in this new section are available from Middle East Books and More, the nation’s preeminent bookstore on the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy. www.MiddleEastBooks.com • (202) 939-6050 ext. 1 Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, May 2024, pp. 66-67 Middle East Books Review By Geoffrey Levin, Yale University Press, 2023, hardcover, 320 pp. MEB $38 MANY ARE UNAWARE of the fact that American Jews have a long history of debating issues related to the rights of Palestinians.
American Jews Have Fought for Palestinian Rights Since Israel Was Born

Feb 1, 2024 | portside.org | Geoffrey Levin

American Jews Have Fought for Palestinian Rights Since Israel Was Born Published February 1, 2024 On a cold and rainy November day, a 65-year-old American rabbi trudged down the muddy roads of a Palestinian refugee camp. When the rabbi and his colleagues stopped, refugees gathered around them in a scene of “disappointment, frustration, [and] despair.” Gaunt men and “children, big-eyed and thin,” walked up and clutched the rabbi’s raincoat.
American Jews Have Fought for Palestinian Rights Since Israel Was Born

Jan 29, 2024 | rsn.org | Geoffrey Levin

My research shows this tradition runs deep. On a cold and rainy November day, a 65-year-old American rabbi trudged down the muddy roads of a Palestinian refugee camp. When the rabbi and his colleagues stopped, refugees gathered around them in a scene of “disappointment, frustration, [and] despair.” Gaunt men and “children, big-eyed and thin,” walked up and clutched the rabbi’s raincoat.
Our Conventional Wisdom About the Origins of American Jewish Defense of Palestinian Rights Misses a Lot

Jan 28, 2024 | slate.com | Geoffrey Levin

History On a cold and rainy November day, a 65-year-old American rabbi trudged down the muddy roads of a Palestinian refugee camp. When the rabbi and his colleagues stopped, refugees gathered around them in a scene of “disappointment, frustration, [and] despair.” Gaunt men and “children, big-eyed and thin,” walked up and clutched the rabbi’s raincoat.
Our Conventional Wisdom About the Origins of American Jewish Defense of Palestinian Rights Misses a Lot

Jan 28, 2024 | news.yahoo.com | Geoffrey Levin

On a cold and rainy November day, a 65-year-old American rabbi trudged down the muddy roads of a Palestinian refugee camp. When the rabbi and his colleagues stopped, refugees gathered around them in a scene of “disappointment, frustration, [and] despair.” Gaunt men and “children, big-eyed and thin,” walked up and clutched the rabbi’s raincoat. Several began chanting, in Arabic, “We want to go home!” Weary, broken women watched silently from their tents as rain and wind chilled their bare feet.
Our Palestine Question

Nov 28, 2023 | yalebooks.yale.edu | Geoffrey Levin

Description Praise A new history of the American Jewish relationship with Israel focused on its most urgent and sensitive issue: the question of Palestinian rights American Jews began debating Palestinian rights issues even before Israel’s founding in 1948. Geoffrey Levin recovers the voices of American Jews who, in the early decades of Israel’s existence, called for an honest reckoning with the moral and political plight of Palestinians.