LEADER 04109nam 22006011 450 001 9910452399403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-19-992031-1 035 $a(CKB)2550000001118737 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24969403 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001000412 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12462375 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001000412 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10963447 035 $a(PQKB)10612549 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1100058 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1100058 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10767056 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL519210 035 $a(OCoLC)858861690 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001118737 100 $a20120410d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMoynihan's moment $eAmerica's fight against Zionism as racism /$fGil Troy 210 1$aOxford ;$aNew York :$cOxford University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 357 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates ) $cillustrations (black and white) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-19-992030-3 311 $a1-299-87959-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFrom 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". 330 8 $aA critical look at American Ambassador to the UN Daniel Patrick Moynihan's valiant stand against its 1975 declaration of Zionism as a form of racism shows just how much - and how little - Moynihan's moment accomplished, and how relevant it remains today.$bOn 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. 606 $aAntisemitism$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWorld politics$y1975-1985 606 $aZionism$xGovernment policy$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAntisemitism$xHistory 615 0$aWorld politics 615 0$aZionism$xGovernment policy 676 $a320.54095694 700 $aTroy$b Gil$01050209 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452399403321 996 $aMoynihan's moment$92479829 997 $aUNINA