Israel's Newest Critics: North American Jews

Uploaded by AgendaStevePaikin on Jun 5, 2010

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The world is still reacting to Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. And some of the most vocal critics to the raid have been North American Jews. Is the reflexive support for Israel -- bound by a legacy of faith, tradition and tragedy -- a thing of the past? Have the realities of modern Zionism fallen out of favour with young North American Jews?

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David Frum is the editor of FrumForum.com, and a former speechwriter for George W. Bush.

Peter Beinart is the author of The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, and a professor of politics and journalism at City University of New York.

Derek J. Penslar is the Samuel Zacks Professor of Jewish History at the University of Toronto. His areas of expertise include modern European Jewry, Zionism, and the state of Israel.

John Mearsheimer is the co-author of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. He is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago.