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...author argues that Truman supported the partition of Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states so that he could secure Jewish backing for his 1948 reelection bid. According to Perret, Truman’s decision to recognize Israeli independence was a unilateral move made despite “strong opposition to partition within the [U.N.] Security Council.” Perret charges that Jews favored partition because they knew it would lead to a war that they would...
...What Perret somehow neglects to mention is that the U.N.’s legislative body, the General Assembly, overwhelmingly approved the partition plan by a 33-13 margin in November 1947. That resolution delineated clear boundaries for “Independent Arab and Jewish States,” with Jerusalem as an international city. Jewish leaders accepted the plan. Arab leaders did not. In recognizing Israeli independence on May 14, 1948, Truman tipped his hat to a state that was created with the U.N.’s blessing and that had acceded to a U.N.-approved peace proposal...
...process of misrepresenting the creation of Israel, Perret manages to malign Truman’s top Jewish aides, as well. For example, he writes that “there is no evidence of [adviser David] Niles ever doing much for blacks, but as an observant Jew, he devoted much of his energies to the creation of Israel.” This flies in the face of a 1987 Political Science Quarterly study concluding that Niles “developed the rationale” for the Truman-appointed Civil Rights Committee, whose work led to the desegregation of the federal workforce...
...Bundy butchered him kosher-style—cut his throat, then watched him bleed to death,” Perret writes. It is an entirely inaccurate portrayal of Jewish dietary law and an entirely inappropriate description of a Holocaust refugee...
Bundy, who served as dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 1953 until 1961, once described himself as an “ex-historian.” One wonders whether it’s time for Perret to adopt the “ex” prefix as well. He has substituted ideology for methodology and invective for insight. He habitually uses phrases like “shit in a silk stocking” to describe Cabinet members and high-level aides. Would a count of Perret’s errors this time top McPherson?...