Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel and We Are Not One: A History of America’s Fight over Israel

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1 Noteworthy scholarly books on this history include P. R. Kumaraswamy, India’s Israel Policy (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010) and Nicolas Blarel, The Evolution of India’s Israel Policy: Continuity, Change, and Compromise (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2015). An article-length study of note is Khinvraj Jangid, “Imagining Nations, Creating States: Nehru, Ben-Gurion and an Analogical Study of India and Israel in Post-Colonial Asia,” Israel Studies 26, no. 1 (Spring 2021): 73–94, https://doi.org/10.2979/israelstudies.26.1.04.

2 Ralph Blumenthal, “Jewish Center Is Stormed, and 6 Hostages Die,” New York Times, November 28, 2008, https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/29/nyregion/29chabad.html.

3 For example, Paul Findley’s book, They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel’s Lobby (New York: Lawrence Hill Books, 1985), is cited several times, whereas the considerable literature on pro-Israel lobbying from the past ten years is not. This newer literature includes Walter L. Hixson, Israel’s Armor: The Israel Lobby and the First Generation of the Palestine Conflict (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019) and Natan Aridan, Advocating for Israel: Diplomats and Lobbyists from Truman to Nixon (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017), which explore the topic from different political perspectives.

4 For one example, see Marjorie N. Feld, The Threshold of Dissent: A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism (New York: New York University Press, 2024).

5 On Sayegh, see Geoffrey Levin, Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948–1978 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2023). On Arab American activism, books include Hani J. Bawardi, The Making of Arab Americans: From Syrian Nationalism to U.S. Citizenship (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014); Pamela E. Pennock, The Rise of the Arab American Left: Activists, Allies, and Their Fight against Imperialism and Racism, 1960s–1980s (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017); and Salim Yaqub, Imperfect Strangers: Americans, Arabs, and U.S.-Middle East Relations in the 1970s (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016).

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Geoffrey P. Levin

Geoffrey P. Levin, assistant professor of Middle Eastern and Jewish studies at Emory University, is the author of Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948–1978 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2023).