Introduction -- From moment to movement: Jewish-American immigration to the occupied territories -- City of the sea: The rise and fall of Garin Yamit -- Redemption in occupied suburbia? Rabbi Shlomo Riskin and the West Bank settlement of Efrat -- Turn left at the end of the world: Garin Lev Zion and the origins of Tekoa -- Scripture and sound bite: American-Israeli settlers from public relations to public enemy -- Conclusion.
Summary:
Since the June 1967 war, over 60,000 Jewish-Americans have settled in the occupied territories. Comprising 15 percent of the Israeli settler enterprise today, they have established major settlements, revolutionized the public relations of the movement and its engagement with the international community, and committed shocking acts of settler terrorism. City on a Hilltop unsettles stereotypes about Jewish-American settlers. It shatters the myth that they were messianic zealots, finding instead a group of young, highly-educated American Jews who were politically active in 1960s social movements and the Democratic Party prior to their immigration to Israel. Their generation didn't abandon their heritage when they settled over the Green Line-- rather they saw a historical opportunity to apply their liberal values to a new kind of "city on a hilltop." The story of Jewish-American settlers personifies the clash between liberal values and political realities at the heart of the crisis of liberal Zionism today.-- Provided by publisher.
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