The Liberal Case for Israel: Debunking Eight Crazy Lies about the Jewish State

The type of progressive, enlightened government to which most American liberals desperately aspire can actually already be found in the reality of modern Israel. Indeed, there’s been no civilization or government in world history that has struggled more diligently to reflect the values that American progressives cherish: from gender equality, to gay and lesbian rights, to freedoms of speech and press, to a more compassionate capitalism. And yet, over the past several decades, some of the loudest voices on the American Left have directed much of their rhetorical foreign policy outrage against the Jewish State.

In “The Liberal Case for Israel,” Jonathan Miller — the former Kentucky State Treasurer and author of “The Compassionate Community: Ten Values to Unite America” — blames this disconnect on deep factual misunderstandings, media disinformation, and the perpetuation of “Eight Crazy Lies” by those who seek the Jewish State’s total destruction.

Miller exposes each of these “Crazy Lies” — which range from “apartheid” to “pinkwashing” to “vulgar capitalism” — and explains with concrete, incontrovertible evidence how in each case, a kind of perverse reversal of reality has taken hold, where Israel is blamed for violating the values that it has often been at the forefront of upholding.

Miller sets the record straight on Israel’s extraordinary story, and he encourages his fellow progressives to join him in promoting global human rights by embracing the one Middle Eastern nation that features a flourishing liberal democracy