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050 00 $aJZ4997.5.U6$bT76 2013
082 00 $a320.54095694$223
100 1 $aTroy, Gil.
245 10 $aMoynihan's moment :$bAmerica's fight against Zionism as racism /$cGil Troy.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$cc2013.
300 $ax, 357 p., [12] p. of plates ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [334]-336) and index.
505 0 $aFrom 1945 to 1975: From "we the peoples of the United Nations" to "the United States in opposition" -- Insider and outsider, warrior and diplomat -- Creating a "fashionable enemy": Turning Zionism into racism -- Moynihan on the move, October 1975 -- Oom, shmoom: "Where are your bloody Jews?" -- The speech -- Backlash -- Backlash against Moynihan -- The politics of patriotic indignation -- "Words matter" -- Conclusion: "what we're fighting for".
520 $aOn 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.
610 20 $aUnited Nations$zUnited States.
600 10 $aMoynihan, Daniel P.$q(Daniel Patrick),$d1927-2003.
650 0 $aWorld politics$y1975-1985.
650 0 $aAntisemitism$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y20th century.
650 0 $aZionism$xGovernment policy$zUnited States.