Moynihan's moment : America's fight against Zionism as racism

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Moynihan's moment : America's fight against Zionism as racism

Title remainder

America's fight against Zionism as racism

Statement of responsibility

Gil Troy

Creator

• trueTroy, Gil

Subject

• Moynihan, Daniel P., (Daniel Patrick), 1927-2003
• United Nations -- United States
• trueAntisemitism -- History -- 20th century
• trueWorld politics -- 1975-1985
• Zionism -- Government policy -- United States
• trueUnited States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century

Language

eng

Summary

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--Publisher's summary

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DLC

Dewey number

320.54095694

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

JZ4997.5.U6

LC item number

T76 2013

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography