Guest Thinkers — June 6, 2010

Jewish Leadership in America

The New York Review of Books continues to host the dialog between Peter Beinart and Abraham Foxman over how much support Irsael is receiving from a new generation of American Jews.

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The New York Review of Books continues to host the dialog between Peter Beinart and Abraham Foxman over how much support Irsael is receiving from a new generation of American Jews. “There’s no evidence, contrary to Beinart, that there’s a fundamental change in Israel away from peace and away from concessions,” says Foxman. Beinart, in his latest reply, says that “There is a strange lack of Israeli agency in Foxman’s story.” The conversation between Beinart and Foxman comes at a time of intense wrangling over humanitarian ships attempting to push through the blockade against Gaza.

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