Ian Lustick

@ianlustick.bsky.social

Avid reader, social scientist, Dylan freak, tennis player.

"Israel's Lobby Setting a Trap," in the Guardian by Eli Clifton and me analyzing the real meaning of legislation to integrate Israeli and American military technologies. Our soon to be released book is ISRAEL'S LOBBY: AMERICA IN THE GRIP OF A FOREIGN POWER www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Congress wants to tie the United States to Israel with new piece of legislation. It’s a trap | Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick

Israel and its lobby will use section 224 of the National Defense Authorization Act to bind the US to a state that has gone rogue

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@bsky.app I and more than 2000 Jewish educators have signed a declaration distributed by "Not in Our Name" protesting the detention of Mahmoud Khalil as an act of oppression and intimidation cynically misrepresented as a response to antisemitism and terrorism. See this this press release:

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So odd that an obvious option for “ relocating” most Gaza Palestinians is never mentioned—returning them to the sparsely inhabited areas of southwestern Israel where they have always wanted to go. An actual part of the original Trump:Kushner plan.

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My article, “Democracy, Liberal Zionism, and Civil-Military Relations in Israel” has just appeared, comparing Guy Ziv’s 2024 book, Netanyahu vs. the Generals to Yoram Peri’s 2006 book, Generals in the Cabinet Room. Ask me directly for a copy of the article: ilustick@sas.upenn.edu

Democracy, Liberal Zionism, and Civil-Military Relations in Israel: A Review Article

Abstract. Two books on civil-military relations in Israel, published eighteen years apart, focus on Israel's future as a Jewish democracy. Peri's 2006 volu

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