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Agree on both counts. Cohen is also right to single out the 1967 war as a turning point, but not quite for the reason she mentions. Very few young Jewish radicals I knew in university at the time were genuinely alarmed about their own survival, as she suggests, or that of the all-conquering Israelis. But when forced to choose between the new Palestinian movement which was rapidly winning the support of the international left against the occupation and their own sympathies for a “Jewish state”, which they continued to view through a romantic haze, they decisively opted for the latter. Once embarked on that trajectory, they moved farther and farther to the right which paralleled the inevitable evolution of the Israeli state and society. On Nov 27, 2014, at 1:11 PM, Jim Farmelant via Marxism <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > And to that list, I would add the battles over affirmative action during the > 1970s. > > Jim Farmelant > http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant > http://www.foxymath.com > Learn or Review Basic Math > > > ---------- Original Message ---------- > From: James Creegan via Marxism <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> > Subject: [Marxism] Effacing the radical tradition in the American Jewish > Community > Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 13:05:11 -0500 > > > > One watershed event omitted from Cohen's piece is the teachers' strike in > Ocean Hill-Brownsville (NYC) in 1968, which > followed closely upon the '67 war . An SDSer at the time (and a college kid > who didn't know all that much), I supported > the "black community" against the strikers--a position I now believe to have > been wrong. Upon subsequent reading, I > concluded that the Rockefeller Foundation, under McGeorge Bundy (remember > him?), was deliberately (and successfully) > using slogans of community control to pit blacks against unions. But, > whatever the rights and wrongs of that dispute, it did > mark a certain turning point.Jews, many of whom had previously considered > themselves not quite white, began increasingly > thereafter to think of themselves as another white ethnicity. > > Jim Creegan > > ____________________________________________________________ > What's your flood risk? > Find flood maps, interactive tools, FAQs, and agents in your area. > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5477699dcbb6e699d39cdst04vuc > > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/marvgand2%40gmail.com _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
