Progressive Jews in Argentina and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Stances on the Six-Day War (1967)

Since the 1947 United Nations resolution on the partition of Palestine and, subsequently, the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948, the Israeli-Palestinian issue has played a powerful role in Argentine public space that has not found a concomitant response in academia. The stance with regard...

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Autor principal: Kahan, Emmanuel Nicolás
Formato: Articulo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2019
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Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/171149
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Sumario:Since the 1947 United Nations resolution on the partition of Palestine and, subsequently, the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948, the Israeli-Palestinian issue has played a powerful role in Argentine public space that has not found a concomitant response in academia. The stance with regard to the 1967 Six-Day War taken by an institution that promotes itself as representative of progressive Argentine Jews, the Idisher Cultur Farband (Argentine Federation of Jewish Cultural Institutions-ICUF), undermined certain meanings, ties of solidarity, and modes of representation held by a diversity of actors regarding the existence and legitimacy of the State of Israel.