Moynihan's moment : America's fight against Zionism as racism /
On 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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2013]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- From 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."