“Operation<i>Exodus</i>”: Israeli government involvement in the production of Otto Preminger's Film<i>Exodus</i>(1960)

Goodman, Giora

doi:10.1080/13531042.2014.946301

Journal of Israeli History

2014

DOI: 10.1080/13531042.2014.946301

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“OperationExodus”: Israeli government involvement in the production of Otto Preminger's FilmExodus(1960)

Giora Goodman

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Hummel¹

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The 1970 release ofHis Land, a religious documentary about Israel produced by Billy Graham's film studio, World Wide Pictures, took the evangelical world by storm. It was shown to hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of churchgoers and encapsulated the mix of prophecy beliefs and cultural arguments that cohered a decade later into the Christian Zionist movement—a major component of the religious right. Surprisingly, American evangelicals were not the only fans ofHis Land. American Jews, led by the American Jewish Committee(AJC), helped make the film an international success. AJC officials organized ecumenical screenings and kept detailed records of the film's reception, praising it as “an authentic interpretation” that “strengthen[s] the current interreligious discussion on the Middle East question.” By 1971, the AJC was showing this unabashedly evangelical film to Jewish audiences in synagogues and community centers. Through reconstructing His Land's production and reception, this article provides a new interpretation of the origins of bipartisan, Jewish and evangelical support for Israel in the late-twentieth century. It recasts the rise of a Jewish-evangelical pro-Israel lobby as an important religious episode to understanding the rise of the religious right and the continuing importance of confessional and theological identity even in the era of the “culture wars.”

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His Landand the Origins of the Jewish-Evangelical Israel Lobby

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American Friends of the Middle East: The CIA, US Citizens, and the Secret Battle for American Public Opinion in the Arab–Israeli Conflict, 1947–1967

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2015

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In 1951, the CIA secretly funded the creation of an ostensibly private group of US citizens called the American Friends of the Middle East (AFME). Pro-Arab and anti-Zionist in orientation, AFME was repeatedly attacked by pro-Israel groups before seeing its links to the CIA exposed by investigative journalists in 1967. Drawing on recent scholarship about “state–private networks” and the cultural history of US–Middle East relations, this article examines the origins of AFME, its characteristic values and relations with the CIA, and the reasons for the decline of its influence vis-à-vis the emergent “Israel lobby.”

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“OperationExodus”: Israeli government involvement in the production of Otto Preminger's FilmExodus(1960)

Cited by 7 publications

References 14 publications

His Landand the Origins of the Jewish-Evangelical Israel Lobby

His Landand the Origins of the Jewish-Evangelical Israel Lobby

American Friends of the Middle East: The CIA, US Citizens, and the Secret Battle for American Public Opinion in the Arab–Israeli Conflict, 1947–1967

Olei Hagardom: Between official and popular memory

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