TY - BOOK ID - 131899808 TI - We are not one : a history of America's fight over Israel PY - 2022 SN - 9780465096312 9780465096329 046509631X PB - New York, N.Y. Basic Books DB - UniCat KW - International relations. Foreign policy KW - United States of America KW - Israel KW - Jews KW - United States UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131899808 AB - "In We Are Not One, historian Eric Alterman traces this debate from its nineteenth-century origins. Following Israel's 1948-1949 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 college campuses. Deeply researched, We Are Not One reveals how our consensus on Israel and Palestine emerged and why, today, it is fracturing"-- ER -