Have you ever noticed that America’s champions of equity and inclusion, opponents of climate change, and skeptics of American exceptionalism generally tend to have critical views of Israel, while Israel’s most enthusiastic supporters take a different view of those cultural touchstones? Why, in the United States, does Israel serve as a political and cultural litmus test?

Over the course of five seminar meetings, Middle East expert and White House veteran Michael Doran will look at the U.S-Israel relationship as an expression of a larger debate about the character of America—a debate that precedes the Squad and President Trump, that precedes the rise of identity politics, that precedes even the upheavals of the 1960s.

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