Between the Lines: We Are Not One

We Are Not One

Part of Between the Lines: Author Conversations from The Library of JTS

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In We Are Not One, historian Eric Alterman traces the debate about the fate of the state of Israel, and the Zionist movement that gave birth to it, from its 19th-century origins. Following Israel’s 1948/49 War of Independence (called the Nakba or “catastrophe” by Palestinians), few Americans, including few Jews, paid much attention to Israel or the challenges it faced. Following the 1967 Six Day War, however, almost overnight, support for Israel became the primary component of American Jews’ collective identity. Over time, Jewish organizations joined forces with conservative Christians and neoconservative pundits and politicos to wage a tenacious fight to define Israel’s image in the US media, popular culture, Congress, and on college campuses. We Are Not One reveals how our consensus on Israel and Palestine emerged and why, today, it is fracturing.

About Eric Alterman

Eric Alterman is a CUNY Distinguished Professor of English at Brooklyn College and holds a PhD in US History from Stanford University. A contributing writer to the Nation and The American Prospect, he is the author of 11 previous titles, including the New York Times bestseller What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News. He lives in New York.