Dov Waxman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3734714 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dov Waxman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dov |
| FAMILY NAME | Waxman |
| SIGNATURE | WAXMAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baruch College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3521-0756 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Arguing about antisemitism: Why we disagree about antisemitism, and what we can do about it
Antisemitism has returned as a major issue across the Western world. But while concern about antisemitism is growing, agreement on what constitutes antisemitism is shrinking. Nowadays, charges of antisemitism are hotly disputed, often accompanied by accusations of bad faith, particularly when they concern criticisms of Israel or anti-Zionism. This article contends that one reason why antisemitism has become increasingly contested is because there…
"King Bibi" and Israeli Illiberalism: Assessing Democratic Backsliding in Israel during the Second Netanyahu Era (2009–2021)
This article assesses democratic backsliding in Israel during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's years in office from 2009 to 2021, drawing comparisons to similar developments in Hungary and Turkey. While the democratic backsliding that occurred in Israel during this period resembled what was taking place in these other countries, Netanyahu was less successful in achieving his goals than Viktor Orbán and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, despite employing s…
The Rocky Future of the US-Israeli Special Relationship
After four harmonious years of US-Israeli relations, during which the Trump administration was closely aligned with the Israeli government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the US-Israeli r
Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know®
No conflict in the world has lasted as long, generated as many news headlines, or incited as much controversy as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Yet, despite, or perhaps because of, the degree of international attention it receives, the conflict is still widely misunderstood. While Israelis and Palestinians and their respective supporters trade accusations, many outside observers remain confused by the conflict's complexity and perplexed by the…
The Pro-Israel Lobby in the United States
This chapter focuses on primarily on the Jewish element of the pro-Israel lobby, although the growing role of evangelical Christians. The United States had replaced Europe as the central political arena for the Zionist movement outside Palestine, and American Jews were at the forefront of the movement. The clearest and most significant manifestation of a resurgence of left-wing Jewish activism after the second Intifada was the formation of J Stre…
Response to Michael Barnett’s review of Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel
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Young American Jews and Israel: Beyond Birthright and BDS
The article examines the attitudes of young adult American Jews towards Israel and their views about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Drawing on the Pew Research Center’s 2013 survey of American Jews, the largest in more than a decade, as well as other empirical data, the article rejects the popular claim that young American Jews are emotionally detached and disconnected from Israel. Instead, the article argues that they are actually more engage…
American Jews and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution
Journal Article American Jews and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution? Get access Dov Waxman Dov Waxman DOV WAXMAN is a professor of political science, international affairs, and Israel studies at Northeastern University. This article is adapted from his new book Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel. He is also the author of The Pursuit of Peace and the Crisis of Israeli Identity…
Is Israeli Democracy in Danger
Demographic shifts have contributed to an illiberal trend also fueled by five decades of occupation and settlement of Palestinian lands. The new right-wing majority is trying to stifle dissenting voices
Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel
Trouble in the Tribe explores the increasingly contentious place of Israel in the American Jewish community. In a fundamental shift, growing numbers of American Jews have become less willing to unquestioningly support Israel and more willing to publicly criticize its government. More than ever before, American Jews are arguing about Israeli policies, and many, especially younger ones, are becoming uncomfortable with Israel's treatment of Palestin…
Confederalism: A Third Way for Israel–Palestine
After years of wishful thinking and failed efforts at Israeli–Palestinian peacemaking, the Obama administration has now finally acknowledged what most observers have been saying for some time—there
Jewish Foreign Policy: Israel, World Jewry and the Defence of “Jewish Interests”
Is there such a thing as a “Jewish foreign policy”? This article argues that Jewish foreign policy does in fact exist. It is not Israeli foreign policy, nor is it an aggregation of American Jewish political power and interests. Jewish foreign policy is not controlled by the Israeli Prime Minister, nor is it led by the myriad of Jewish communal organizations in the United States or elsewhere. It defies the traditional ‘Israel-diaspora’ dichotomy t…
Israel's other Palestinian problem: The Future Vision Documents and the demands of the Palestinian minority in Israel
This article examines the challenge Israel faces from its Palestinian minority in light of the publication of the ‘Future Vision Documents’, a series of seminal documents written by leaders of the Palestinian community in Israel in which they demand that Israel abandon its Jewish identity and recognize its Palestinian citizens as an indigenous national minority with collective rights. The article also assesses the implications of this challenge f…
The Real Problem in U.S.–Israeli Relations
A Dangerous Divide: The Deterioration of Jewish-Palestinian Relations in Israel
This article examines the relations between Jewish and Palestinian-Arab citizens of Israel since the of October when massive Arab protests and riots took place and thirteen Arab demonstrators were killed. In the decade since then Arab-Jewish relations have been characterized by growing mutual mistrust, fear, and hostility. Together with these negative attitudes, political polarization between the two communities has also increased. This poses a s…
Israel’s Palestinians: The Conflict Within
Arguing that a comprehensive and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict depends on a resolution of the Jewish-Palestinian conflict within Israel as much as it does on resolving the conflict between Israel and Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, this timely book explores the causes and consequences of the growing conflict between Israel's Jewish majority and its Palestinian-Arab minority. It warns that if Jewish-Arab relations …
I srael's P alestinian M inority in the T wo ‐S tate S olution: T he M issing D imension
The Israel Lobbies: A Survey of the Pro-Israel Community in the United States
The influence of the pro-Israel lobby in US foreign policymaking toward the Middle East has been a subject of great interest and fierce controversy in recent years. Yet, despite being the object of a massive amount of critical scrutiny, the pro-Israel lobby remains poorly understood. All too often it is depicted as a highly organized, cohesive political actor pursuing an agenda in line with, and even determined by, Israel's right-wing Likud party…
From Jerusalem to Baghdad? Israel and the War in Iraq
The prevailing opinion that the Bush administration took the United States to war against Iraq in March 2003 under false pretenses has led many to believe that Israel's security was the secret rationale for the war. According to this “war for Israel” thesis, neoconservative policymakers in the Bush administration, the pro-Israel lobby in the United States, and Israel's government all pushed the United States to go to war with Iraq for the sake of…
Neither Ethnocracy nor Bi-Nationalism: In Search of the Middle Ground
This article examines the challenge posed to the future of Israel as a Jewish state by its Palestinian minority. In particular, it analyzes a series of documents published in 2006-2007 by political and intellectual leaders of the Palestinian community in Israel in which they called upon Israel to abandon its Jewish identity and recognize its Palestinian citizens as an indigenous national minority with collective rights. After discussing the major…
From Conflict to Consensus: Cultural Conflict and the Israeli Debate Over Territorial Withdrawal
For many years, the debate over whether Israel should withdraw from the West Bank and Gaza dominated Israeli public discourse and aroused intense passions and hostilities. This is no longer the case. This debate is far less divisive and bitter than it once was. In Israel there is broad public support for a withdrawal from much of the occupied territories, and the debate is mostly about the extent, manner, and timing of this withdrawal. This artic…
Ideological Change and Israel's Disengagement from Gaza
JONATHAN RYNHOLD is a senior lecturer in political studies and a senior researcher at the BESA Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He co-edited two books on the last two Israeli elections in the series Israel at the Polls and has written widely on Israel and the Middle East peace process. DOV WAXMAN is an assistant professor in the department of political science at Baruch College, City University of New York. He is the aut…
Beyond Realpolitik: The Israel Lobby and US Support for Israel
The close partnership between the United States and Israel is unusual, even exceptional, in the annals of inter-state relations. The range and depth of the diplomatic, military, and economic ties between the two states has few parallels, granting the US-Israeli relationship its special character. What makes the US-Israeli relationship truly special, however, is not just the extent of the ties that bind the two states together, but the degree of c…
Losing Control? A Comparison of Majority–Minority Relations in Israel and Turkey
This article addresses the question of how multiethnic states can manage the relationship between the ethnic majority and the minority. It identifies a series of alternative strategies and methods and applies this classification to two states, Israel and Turkey. The article compares the approaches the two states have taken in dealing with their largest national minorities, and explains how and why these approaches have differed. The article demon…
Young American Jews and Israel: Beyond Birthright and BDS
The article examines the attitudes of young adult American Jews towards Israel and their views about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Drawing on the Pew Research Center’s 2013 survey of American Jews, the largest in more than a decade, as well as other empirical data, the article rejects the popular claim that young American Jews are emotionally detached and disconnected from Israel. Instead, the article argues that they are actually more engage…
A Dangerous Divide: The Deterioration of Jewish-Palestinian Relations in Israel
This article examines the relations between Jewish and Palestinian-Arab citizens of Israel since the of October when massive Arab protests and riots took place and thirteen Arab demonstrators were killed. In the decade since then Arab-Jewish relations have been characterized by growing mutual mistrust, fear, and hostility. Together with these negative attitudes, political polarization between the two communities has also increased. This poses a s…
"King Bibi" and Israeli Illiberalism: Assessing Democratic Backsliding in Israel during the Second Netanyahu Era (2009–2021)
This article assesses democratic backsliding in Israel during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's years in office from 2009 to 2021, drawing comparisons to similar developments in Hungary and Turkey. While the democratic backsliding that occurred in Israel during this period resembled what was taking place in these other countries, Netanyahu was less successful in achieving his goals than Viktor Orbán and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, despite employing s…
From Conflict to Consensus: Cultural Conflict and the Israeli Debate Over Territorial Withdrawal
For many years, the debate over whether Israel should withdraw from the West Bank and Gaza dominated Israeli public discourse and aroused intense passions and hostilities. This is no longer the case. This debate is far less divisive and bitter than it once was. In Israel there is broad public support for a withdrawal from much of the occupied territories, and the debate is mostly about the extent, manner, and timing of this withdrawal. This artic…
Ideological Change and Israel's Disengagement from Gaza
JONATHAN RYNHOLD is a senior lecturer in political studies and a senior researcher at the BESA Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He co-edited two books on the last two Israeli elections in the series Israel at the Polls and has written widely on Israel and the Middle East peace process. DOV WAXMAN is an assistant professor in the department of political science at Baruch College, City University of New York. He is the aut…
I srael's P alestinian M inority in the T wo ‐S tate S olution: T he M issing D imension
Losing Control? A Comparison of Majority–Minority Relations in Israel and Turkey
This article addresses the question of how multiethnic states can manage the relationship between the ethnic majority and the minority. It identifies a series of alternative strategies and methods and applies this classification to two states, Israel and Turkey. The article compares the approaches the two states have taken in dealing with their largest national minorities, and explains how and why these approaches have differed. The article demon…
The Rocky Future of the US-Israeli Special Relationship
After four harmonious years of US-Israeli relations, during which the Trump administration was closely aligned with the Israeli government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the US-Israeli r
Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality
Response to Michael Barnett’s review of Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
American Jews and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution
Journal Article American Jews and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution? Get access Dov Waxman Dov Waxman DOV WAXMAN is a professor of political science, international affairs, and Israel studies at Northeastern University. This article is adapted from his new book Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel. He is also the author of The Pursuit of Peace and the Crisis of Israeli Identity…
Confederalism: A Third Way for Israel–Palestine
After years of wishful thinking and failed efforts at Israeli–Palestinian peacemaking, the Obama administration has now finally acknowledged what most observers have been saying for some time—there
Jewish Foreign Policy: Israel, World Jewry and the Defence of “Jewish Interests”
Is there such a thing as a “Jewish foreign policy”? This article argues that Jewish foreign policy does in fact exist. It is not Israeli foreign policy, nor is it an aggregation of American Jewish political power and interests. Jewish foreign policy is not controlled by the Israeli Prime Minister, nor is it led by the myriad of Jewish communal organizations in the United States or elsewhere. It defies the traditional ‘Israel-diaspora’ dichotomy t…
The Real Problem in U.S.–Israeli Relations
The Israel Lobbies: A Survey of the Pro-Israel Community in the United States
The influence of the pro-Israel lobby in US foreign policymaking toward the Middle East has been a subject of great interest and fierce controversy in recent years. Yet, despite being the object of a massive amount of critical scrutiny, the pro-Israel lobby remains poorly understood. All too often it is depicted as a highly organized, cohesive political actor pursuing an agenda in line with, and even determined by, Israel's right-wing Likud party…
From Jerusalem to Baghdad? Israel and the War in Iraq
The prevailing opinion that the Bush administration took the United States to war against Iraq in March 2003 under false pretenses has led many to believe that Israel's security was the secret rationale for the war. According to this “war for Israel” thesis, neoconservative policymakers in the Bush administration, the pro-Israel lobby in the United States, and Israel's government all pushed the United States to go to war with Iraq for the sake of…
Neither Ethnocracy nor Bi-Nationalism: In Search of the Middle Ground
This article examines the challenge posed to the future of Israel as a Jewish state by its Palestinian minority. In particular, it analyzes a series of documents published in 2006-2007 by political and intellectual leaders of the Palestinian community in Israel in which they called upon Israel to abandon its Jewish identity and recognize its Palestinian citizens as an indigenous national minority with collective rights. After discussing the major…
Terrorizing democracies
While terrorists can act without limits or convention, democratic states are often forced to combat terrorist activity while upholding the rule of law. It takes savvy decision making to reconcile democratic ideals with protecting a country's public against an anonymous and formidable foe
Turkey and Israel: A new balance of power in the Middle East
This geopolitical odd couple has become quite intimate of late, Waxman writes, sharing intelligence, taking part in joint military maneuvers, and otherwise broadcasting their deepening strategic embrace. The relationship could transform the Middle East balance of power—and for the better
Terrorizing democracies
While terrorists can act without limits or convention, democratic states are often forced to combat terrorist activity while upholding the rule of law. It takes savvy decision making to reconcile democratic ideals with protecting a country's public against an anonymous and formidable foe
A Dream Become Nightmare? Turkey's Entry into the European Union
As long as Turkey's desire for EU membership represented an abstract ideal..., Turkey's military and civilian elite could avoid acknowledging the potential political costs of membership in the eu. And as long as the Europeans kept Turkey at arm's length, that elite's willingness to implement the domestic reforms necessary for EU membership was never put to the test
Israel's Dilemma: Unity or Peace?
This article discusses the issue of national unity in Israel and the growing political and social concern over it since the assasination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in November 1995 by a right-wing extremist Jew. The article examines the effect that rising domestic anxiety over the absence of Israeli national unity had on the Israeli–Palestinian peace process. It highlights the tension that Israel faces between the demands of national unity a…
The Pursuit of Peace and the Crisis of Israeli Identity: Defending/Defining the Nation
This book offers a theoretically-informed analysis of the way in which Israeli national identity has shaped Israel's foreign policy. By linking domestic identity politics to Israeli foreign policy, it
Israel's Dilemma: Unity or Peace
This article discusses the issue of national unity in Israel and the growing political and social concern over it since the assasination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in November 1995 by a right-wing extremist Jew. The article examines the effect that rising domestic anxiety over the absence of Israeli national unity had on the Israeli–Palestinian peace process. It highlights the tension that Israel faces between the demands of national unity a…
Beyond Realpolitik: The Israel Lobby and US Support for Israel
The close partnership between the United States and Israel is unusual, even exceptional, in the annals of inter-state relations. The range and depth of the diplomatic, military, and economic ties between the two states has few parallels, granting the US-Israeli relationship its special character. What makes the US-Israeli relationship truly special, however, is not just the extent of the ties that bind the two states together, but the degree of c…
Losing Control? A Comparison of Majority–Minority Relations in Israel and Turkey
This article addresses the question of how multiethnic states can manage the relationship between the ethnic majority and the minority. It identifies a series of alternative strategies and methods and applies this classification to two states, Israel and Turkey. The article compares the approaches the two states have taken in dealing with their largest national minorities, and explains how and why these approaches have differed. The article demon…
Between Victory and Defeat: Israel after the War with Hizballah
Israel now stands at a crossroads. The lessons it draws from its recent war with Hizballah will shape future Israeli thinking and its relations with the Palestinians as well as the rest of the Middle East. It is imperative that it learns the right ones
Neither Ethnocracy nor Bi-Nationalism: In Search of the Middle Ground
This article examines the challenge posed to the future of Israel as a Jewish state by its Palestinian minority. In particular, it analyzes a series of documents published in 2006-2007 by political and intellectual leaders of the Palestinian community in Israel in which they called upon Israel to abandon its Jewish identity and recognize its Palestinian citizens as an indigenous national minority with collective rights. After discussing the major…
From Conflict to Consensus: Cultural Conflict and the Israeli Debate Over Territorial Withdrawal
For many years, the debate over whether Israel should withdraw from the West Bank and Gaza dominated Israeli public discourse and aroused intense passions and hostilities. This is no longer the case. This debate is far less divisive and bitter than it once was. In Israel there is broad public support for a withdrawal from much of the occupied territories, and the debate is mostly about the extent, manner, and timing of this withdrawal. This artic…
Ideological Change and Israel's Disengagement from Gaza
JONATHAN RYNHOLD is a senior lecturer in political studies and a senior researcher at the BESA Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He co-edited two books on the last two Israeli elections in the series Israel at the Polls and has written widely on Israel and the Middle East peace process. DOV WAXMAN is an assistant professor in the department of political science at Baruch College, City University of New York. He is the aut…
From Jerusalem to Baghdad? Israel and the War in Iraq
The prevailing opinion that the Bush administration took the United States to war against Iraq in March 2003 under false pretenses has led many to believe that Israel's security was the secret rationale for the war. According to this “war for Israel” thesis, neoconservative policymakers in the Bush administration, the pro-Israel lobby in the United States, and Israel's government all pushed the United States to go to war with Iraq for the sake of…
The Israel Lobbies: A Survey of the Pro-Israel Community in the United States
The influence of the pro-Israel lobby in US foreign policymaking toward the Middle East has been a subject of great interest and fierce controversy in recent years. Yet, despite being the object of a massive amount of critical scrutiny, the pro-Israel lobby remains poorly understood. All too often it is depicted as a highly organized, cohesive political actor pursuing an agenda in line with, and even determined by, Israel's right-wing Likud party…
Israel’s Palestinians: The Conflict Within
Arguing that a comprehensive and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict depends on a resolution of the Jewish-Palestinian conflict within Israel as much as it does on resolving the conflict between Israel and Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, this timely book explores the causes and consequences of the growing conflict between Israel's Jewish majority and its Palestinian-Arab minority. It warns that if Jewish-Arab relations …
I srael's P alestinian M inority in the T wo ‐S tate S olution: T he M issing D imension
The Real Problem in U.S.–Israeli Relations
A Dangerous Divide: The Deterioration of Jewish-Palestinian Relations in Israel
This article examines the relations between Jewish and Palestinian-Arab citizens of Israel since the of October when massive Arab protests and riots took place and thirteen Arab demonstrators were killed. In the decade since then Arab-Jewish relations have been characterized by growing mutual mistrust, fear, and hostility. Together with these negative attitudes, political polarization between the two communities has also increased. This poses a s…
Jewish Foreign Policy: Israel, World Jewry and the Defence of “Jewish Interests”
Is there such a thing as a “Jewish foreign policy”? This article argues that Jewish foreign policy does in fact exist. It is not Israeli foreign policy, nor is it an aggregation of American Jewish political power and interests. Jewish foreign policy is not controlled by the Israeli Prime Minister, nor is it led by the myriad of Jewish communal organizations in the United States or elsewhere. It defies the traditional ‘Israel-diaspora’ dichotomy t…
Israel's other Palestinian problem: The Future Vision Documents and the demands of the Palestinian minority in Israel
This article examines the challenge Israel faces from its Palestinian minority in light of the publication of the ‘Future Vision Documents’, a series of seminal documents written by leaders of the Palestinian community in Israel in which they demand that Israel abandon its Jewish identity and recognize its Palestinian citizens as an indigenous national minority with collective rights. The article also assesses the implications of this challenge f…
Is Israeli Democracy in Danger
Demographic shifts have contributed to an illiberal trend also fueled by five decades of occupation and settlement of Palestinian lands. The new right-wing majority is trying to stifle dissenting voices
Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel
Trouble in the Tribe explores the increasingly contentious place of Israel in the American Jewish community. In a fundamental shift, growing numbers of American Jews have become less willing to unquestioningly support Israel and more willing to publicly criticize its government. More than ever before, American Jews are arguing about Israeli policies, and many, especially younger ones, are becoming uncomfortable with Israel's treatment of Palestin…
Confederalism: A Third Way for Israel–Palestine
After years of wishful thinking and failed efforts at Israeli–Palestinian peacemaking, the Obama administration has now finally acknowledged what most observers have been saying for some time—there
Young American Jews and Israel: Beyond Birthright and BDS
The article examines the attitudes of young adult American Jews towards Israel and their views about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Drawing on the Pew Research Center’s 2013 survey of American Jews, the largest in more than a decade, as well as other empirical data, the article rejects the popular claim that young American Jews are emotionally detached and disconnected from Israel. Instead, the article argues that they are actually more engage…
American Jews and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution
Journal Article American Jews and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution? Get access Dov Waxman Dov Waxman DOV WAXMAN is a professor of political science, international affairs, and Israel studies at Northeastern University. This article is adapted from his new book Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel. He is also the author of The Pursuit of Peace and the Crisis of Israeli Identity…
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