04109nam 22006011 450 991045239940332120200520144314.00-19-992031-1(CKB)2550000001118737(StDuBDS)AH24969403(SSID)ssj0001000412(PQKBManifestationID)12462375(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001000412(PQKBWorkID)10963447(PQKB)10612549(MiAaPQ)EBC1100058(Au-PeEL)EBL1100058(CaPaEBR)ebr10767056(CaONFJC)MIL519210(OCoLC)858861690(EXLCZ)99255000000111873720120410d2013 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrMoynihan's moment America's fight against Zionism as racism /Gil TroyOxford ;New York :Oxford University Press,2013.1 online resource (x, 357 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates ) illustrations (black and white)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-19-992030-3 1-299-87959-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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".A critical look at American Ambassador to the UN Daniel Patrick Moynihan's valiant stand against its 1975 declaration of Zionism as a form of racism shows just how much - and how little - Moynihan's moment accomplished, and how relevant it remains today.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 Israel as an anti-Semitic assault on democracy and stood up to the Soviet-backed alliance of Communist dictatorships and Third World autocracies that supported the resolution. Hiseloquent stand brought him celebrity in the U.S., but ultimately shortened his tenure at the UN by alienating American allies, adversaries, and much of the foreign policy establishment-including Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Nevertheless, Moynihan's moment was a turning point: a harbinger of a shiftin American culture and politics that would culminate in the Reagan Revolution. Moynihan paved the way for a more muscular, idealistic, neoconservative foreign policy and for a new style of defiant "cowboy" diplomacy. In this book, Gil Troy argues that America's idea of itself-still torn, in the mid-'70s, between post-Vietnam and -Watergate defeatism and a growing sense of optimism-changed with Moynihan, altering both the left and the right in ways that continue to play out in the 21st century. Much of the rhetoric of this era survives in domestic foreign policy debatesand the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine, suggesting that Moynihan's struggle has much to reveal about American politics and its position on the world stage.AntisemitismHistory20th centuryWorld politics1975-1985ZionismGovernment policyUnited StatesUnited StatesForeign relations20th centuryElectronic books.AntisemitismHistoryWorld politicsZionismGovernment policy320.54095694Troy Gil1050209MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452399403321Moynihan's moment2479829UNINA