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Converging political cultures: how globalization is shaping the discourses of American and Israeli jews / Sasson, Theodore; Tabory, Ephraim

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2010.

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We examine the impact of globalization on Israeli and American Jews' attitudes regarding religious pluralism and minority civil rights in Israel. Studying middle-class Israeli and American Jews of European descent, we find overlap across (and differentiation within) the groups. We attribute political cultural convergence to globalization: (1) international travel; (2) diffusion of Jewish transnational institutions; (3) increased integration of Israel into global capitalist relations; and (4) perceived security threats moving American Jews toward increased security concerns for themselves and Israel. We perceive new patterns of transnational engagement in which Israeli and American Jews seek common cause with their like-minded counterparts.

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Globalization ; Jews ; American Jews ; Israeli Jews ; Political Cultures

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ID: 136119

Does taglit-birthright Israel foster long-distance nationalism? / Sasson, Theodore; Shain, Michelle ; Hecht, Shahar ; Wright, Graham, Saxe, Leonard

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Taglit-Birthright Israel has brought hundreds of thousands of diaspora Jewish young adults on tours of Israel. Drawing on data from a large-scale program evaluation, we ask how the program affects participants’ feelings of homeland attachment and political views on contentious homeland issues. North Americans who traveled to Israel with Taglit between 2010 and 2012 were surveyed together with a comparison group of applicants to the program who did not participate. In multivariate analysis, Taglit sharply increases feelings of connection to Israel but has no effect on attitudes concerning the future of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. The program modestly increases scores on a “favorability” scale and modestly increases opposition to a possible division of Jerusalem in a future peace deal. In contrast to Benedict Anderson's theory of long-distance nationalism, the findings suggest that feelings of homeland connection can be fostered without triggering ethnonationalist attitudes associated with the political right.

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Mass mobilization to direct engagement: American Jews' changing relationship to Israel / Sasson, Theodore

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2010.

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Israel ; Jews ; American Jews ; Mass Mobilization ; Direct Ingagement

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