Neoconservatives paired with Israel’s Likud to frame the terrorist as an enemy of civilization

Evidence

Many of the first generation of neocons were Jewish and found themselves alienated by the New Left’s sympathy for the Palestinian struggle and for Third World causes more broadly. Yet the Jewish experience does not automatically translate into a hard-right Likud-style politics. As Richard Seymour observes, “It is clearly the case that, for many Jewish neoconservatives, their Jewish identity mattered; but there are surely a variety of ways of experiencing life as a Jewish immigrant in the United States, and many more ways of relating to that experience.” — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 386 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: US and Israeli conservatives jointly framed the global Arab terrorist threat — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 237; Postwar modernization theory and the Israel partnership produced the Arab terrorist race — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 103; Neocons partnered with Likud to frame the terrorist as a civilizational threat — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 432 (+13 more)

Broader Connections

• Jewish identity does not automatically produce hard-right Likud-style politics. #complicates (0.74) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 386