American Jews and Israel (Robert Wright & Eric Alterman)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 96 minutes

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2:35 Eric’s new book We Are Not One, about changing American Jewish attitudes toward Israel over the years 7:28 Jewish-American identity before its “Zionization” 10:01 Why fewer young American Jews are feeling the pro-Israel vibe 15:25 Israel in American politics 23:04 The “Israel as apartheid state” debate 35:28 How the 1960’s defined Jewish visions of Israel 49:02 Is a “two-state solution” now the conservative position? 52:50 Zionism vs. social justice activism 1:04:22 Why Israel is fine with the Palestinian status quo 1:15:54 Does Israel really need US support? 1:20:32 Could international pressure help solve the Israel-Palestine conflict?

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Eric Alterman (The American Prospect, Brooklyn College, Lying in State: Why Presidents Lie and Why Trump is Worse). Recorded November 16, 2022.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:08.1	Hello, Eric.
0:09.6	Hi, Bob.
0:10.7	How you doing?
0:12.2	I'm good.
0:13.0	I'm happy to see you, Bob.
0:14.4	I always enjoy these talks with you.
0:16.6	I enjoy them, too.
0:17.8	Let me tell them who you are and who I am. I'm Robert Wright,
0:22.5	publisher of the non-zero newsletter. This is a non-zero podcast. You're Eric Alterman.
0:26.9	Among other things, author of a book, but also, before we get to that, you are what, a
0:32.1	you're some kind of distinguished professor at Brooklyn College. That is my title, yes,
0:36.3	distinguished professor.
0:38.4	Of English, actually.
0:42.2	Although your graduate work was mainly in things, what?
0:45.2	I have a PhD in history, U.S. history.
0:49.4	I'm a professor of English because, for a bureaucratic reason, I was originally hired as a distinguished, quote-unquote,
0:53.6	professor of journalism, which was in the
0:56.6	English department. And then there was a split. The journalism department left the English
1:02.4	department, a journalism program, left the English department. And I stayed in English because I
1:08.2	enjoy it more. Okay. I like teaching it.
1:12.0	I teach literature and film, which is a lot of fun.
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