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When Jews first came to America, many were characterized as incapable of learning--a stereotype imposed on entering Chinese as well. Ironically, today both groups are singled out as "model minorities." Consequently, both groups threaten the non-Jewish white majority, creating what a Newsweek interviewee termed "feelings of being overwhelmed." To its credit, Newsweek points out the irrationality of this paranoia, yet it does little more than feed the anti-Asian backlash as it buttresses the age-old stereotypes presented in its April article...
...proteans, as the authors awkwardly refer to them, steered SDS for four years, eventually fading from prominence when their theories failed to translate into long-term success with projects such as ERAP. A new, non-Jewish psychological type grabbed the reins and evolved into what the authors call the rigid authoritarian rebel": all of the protean's hang-ups, minus his respect for intellectual matters and his adherence to non-violent tactics. Total immersion in anti-war protest became inevitable after the huge U.S. troop deployments of 1965 and intensification of the draft, say Rothman and Lichter...
...Their initial quantitative ethnic survey of group members finds that over half of the initial SDS leadership was Jewish, rather than the more commonly accepted estimate in Sale's book of "perhaps a third." Operating with that in mind, the authors offer a complicated two-pronged assessment: 1) Jewish psychological defense mechanisms, not radical idealism, sparked what turned out to be a valuable new critique of American society and 2) when the original leadership gave way to a largely non-Jewish contingent, a different and more pernicious set of selfish motives drove SDS toward a hollow and violent revolutionary doctrine...
...what his countrymen see as rising anti-Israel sentiment among American youth. "People don't have to agree with the Israeli government," conceded Begin, "but I think we have a valid position." Binyamin is a geologist (with a Ph.D. from Colorado State University), "a profession," he joked, "as non-Jewish as rain making." The Premier's son made the supreme sacrifice for an Israeli: instead of wearing his customary open-necked shirt, he donned coat and tie. So strange was the four-in-hand, he insisted, that he had to have it tied by his mother...
Like any high-ranking politician, Meir made mistakes. Her domestic policy was criticized for being too harsh on non-Jewish minorities, and she might have avoided the October 1973 war had she and her Labor government been more receptive to negotiating efforts...