Tribal Trouble: The Changing Nature of American Jews’ Relationship to Israel and the Question of Jewish Unity
…can Jews. This was not only true of people on the center-right. In the late 1960s and early 1970s “The Radical Zionist Alliance,” which included many young Jews on the left, made a similar equation. One of its founders, Chava Katz, wrote in 1970, “To talk about being pro- or anti-Israel is like saying, ‘Are you pro or against yourself?’” In the course of just a few decades a major transformation has taken place. As Waxman notes, “The era of ‘Israe…
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