Suchergebnisse

Black internationalism : Malcolm X and the rise of global solidarity -- The fire this time : SNCC, Jews, and the demise of the beloved community -- Reformers not revolutionaries : the NAACP, Bayard Rustin, and Israel -- Balanced and guarded : Martin Luther King, Jr. on the Arab-Israeli tightrope -- The power of words : the Black Arts movement and a new narrative -- Struggle and revolution : the Black Panthers and the guerrilla image -- Middle East symbiosis : Israelis, Arabs, and African-Americans -- Red, white, and black : communists, guerrillas, and the black mainstream -- A seat at the table : Andrew Young and black foreign policy -- Looking over Jordan : Joseph Lowery, Jesse Jackson, and Yasir Arafat

The loss of Jewish property in the Arab world -- Jewish claims in the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the peace process, 1948-2001 -- The status of Jewish property claims today

The June 1968 assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy at the hands of Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian refugee from the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, has long been viewed by the American public as an example of the inchoate violence that stalked the country during the 1960s. That is no accident.
Various parties succeeded in depoliticizing the assassination and sidelining the Middle Eastern dimensions of the crime despite the efforts of others to highlight the political background for Sirhan's action.

AbstractDuring the late 1960s, left-wing American activists faced challenges when trying to find out about what was happening in the Middle East and what their government was doing there. Yet overall, some activists still felt that by 1970 the American Left suffered from an overall dearth of solid information and regular, independent, critical analysis of the Middle East. As a result, the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) and its publication, MERIP Reports, were established in 1971 to fill that void. However, in many ways a major impetus for MERIP's formation was not just its founders' hunger for better analysis of the region, but also the deep impressions made on them by a dramatic and influential trip several of them took to Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan in August and early September 1970. Thus, while it is true that, since its inception, MERIP has shaped the study of the Middle East, it is also true that it was the Middle East that first shaped those who formed MERIP.

The September 2018 decision by the administration of U.S. president Donald Trump to close the offices of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Washington and expel the PLO ambassador and his family was the latest chapter in the long and difficult history of Palestinian efforts to maintain information and diplomatic offices in the United States. From the opening of the first Arab information office in the United States in 1945, to the establishment of the first specifically Palestinian information center in 1955, to the creation of the first PLO office in 1965, the Palestinians' twin goals of representing their people and providing information about their cause on the soil of Israel's greatest ally has been hindered by challenges and threats from a variety of sources. Indeed, the long saga of trying to maintain an official presence in the United States is a microcosm of the wider Palestinian national drama of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, replete with Zionist attacks, debilitating inter-Arab and intra-Palestinian rivalries, political ineptitude, the struggle to achieve diplomatic legitimacy, and hostility from the U.S. government and its pro-Zionist politicians.