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The Deadliest Lies: The Israel Lobby and the Myth of Jewish Control

by Abraham H. Foxman

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ISBN13: 9781403984920
ISBN10: 1403984921
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Publisher Comments:

The representative of the Jewish community and staunch defender of human rights, Foxman delivers a powerful blow to such ideas as "The Israel Lobby." He shows how old stereotypes associated with the most virulent forms of bigotry have been resurfacing and taking subtle new forms. From Carter to Mearsheimer, he addresses the public figures who make these beliefs appear credible. He also reveals a disturbing parallel trend: the decline of global Jewish solidarity, which he argues is critical for dealing with the current threat. Foxman advocates forthright and decisive solutions to an international crisis, ensuring that this will be an important clarion call.

Review:

"'In opposing the view that there is an 'Israel lobby' with disproportionate influence on U.S. foreign policy (a view that Foxman says plays into 'the traditional anti-Semitic narrative about 'Jewish control' '), the national director of the Anti-Defamation League focuses on the controversial 2006 paper 'The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy' by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt (their book of the same title will be published in September). Foxman demolishes a number of shibboleths about the lobby's power. Much of the book's second half then takes on what Foxman sees as the biases and distortions in former president Carter's Palestine Peace or Apartheid, offering evidence, for example, that Yasser Arafat, not Ehud Barak, was the obstacle to an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement at the Taba negotiations. But Foxman never really defines what the 'Israel lobby' is, paying more attention to the ADL than to that lobby's main instrument, the America Israel Public Affairs Committee. And many will find debatable his claim that Israel 'has proven to be the single greatest source of stability in the region.' This book succeeds far more as a rebuttal of a pernicious theory about a mythically powerful Jewish lobby than as a look at the real institutions that lobby in support of Israel or at Israel's complex role in the Middle East. (Sept.)' Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)" Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

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"In the fifth chapter of the New Testament's Book of Romans, there appears the single verse that established the concept of original sin. 'Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin,' the passage in the King James version reads, 'and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.' From Adam onward, in other words, sin is hereditary, ancestral, inescapable except... Washington Post Book Review (read the entire Washington Post review)

Synopsis:

The national director of the Anti-Defamation League and "the" representative of the Jewish community shows how old stereotypes associated with the most virulent forms of bigotry have been resurfacing and taking subtle new forms.

About the Author

Abraham H. Foxman is the national director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and one of today's preeminent voices against hatred, discrimination, and violence across the world. He is the author of Never Again?: The Threat of the New Anti-Semitism.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: .  In a Time of Challenge

2.  Old Poison in a New Bottle

3.  Alluring Myths, Clear-Eyed Realities

4.  The Power of Misinformation: The Judt Affair

5.  A President Loses His Way

6.   The Way Forward

Product Details

ISBN:
9781403984920
Subtitle:
The Israel Lobby and the Myth of Jewish Control
Author:
Foxman, Abraham H.
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan
Subject:
SOC049000
Subject:
Jews
Subject:
History
Subject:
Religion, Politics & State
Subject:
Jewish studies
Subject:
Discrimination & Racism
Subject:
Judaism - General
Publication Date:
20070904
Binding:
HC
Language:
English
Pages:
256
Dimensions:
9.46x6.44x.90 in. 1.00 lbs.
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