About the Author

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Movement description

Researching the movement

Book plan

1 | Understanding and researching the social movement

Identity and distant issue movements

Bourdieu and social movements

Conclusion

2 | The conflict over diaspora Jewish identity

Identity and diaspora

The attractions of exile

Rejecting Zionism, ignoring Palestinians

Conclusion: The limits of identity talk

3 | The Jewish field and its dissidents

Rethinking ‘community’

No longer ‘the club’: fragmented British Jewry

A history of the movement in Britain

Global Jewish opposition to Israel

4 | Activists between the universal and the community

Coming out activist

Confronting Zionists: conversing with the Other

Cultivating the Jewish field

Conclusion: a global space for the community?

5 | The terrain of activism

Boycott: ‘the middle-aged equivalent of wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt’

‘It’s kosher to boycott Israeli goods’

Conclusion: rooted cosmopolitans

6 | Rooted cosmopolitans: participants and Palestinians

Problems with Palestinians

Solidarity versus cosmopolitanism

Conclusion

Conclusion

How important is this movement?

Palestinian rights and Jewish identities

Notes

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

References

Index