description: Jews who criticize Israel have become the darlings of the media, the State Department, and, of course, the Arabs. One can hardly open a newspaper or tune in to a television talk show without encountering these detractors. Now Edward Alexander offers analysis and includes controversial essays by leading writers on this hot topic.Contents:Anti-semitism, Israeli-style ; Michael Lerner : the would-be king of American Jewry / Edward Alexander --Thomas Friedman's Israel : the myth of unrequited love / Jerold S. Auerbach --Milton Viorst : master of the double standard / David Bar-Illan --Anthony Lewis : savior of Israel's soul / Yitzhak Ben-Zvi --The hidden alliances of Noam Chomsky / Werner Cohn --Israelis against themselves / Rael Jean and Erich Isaac --New Jewish agenda : the Jewish wing of the Anti-Israel lobby / Rael Jean Isaac --The normalization of the Jews : Jerome Segal and the Stockholm five / Jacob Neusner --Israel : a lamentation from the future / Norman Podhoretz --The new Israel fund : financing Palestinian nationalism / Joseph Puder --"Phony Israel" : an exercise in nastiness / Marie Syrkin --Epilogue / Edward Alexander.Edward Alexander, editor ; preamble by Cynthia Ozick.
language: English
title: With Friends Like These: The Jewish Critics of Israel
titlecomplete: With Friends Like These: The Jewish Critics of Israel
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publisher: S.P.I. Books