OR Books, 2012. — 470 p.Traditionally, American Jews have been broadly liberal in their political outlook; indeed African-Americans are the only ethnic group more likely to vote Democratic in US elections. Over the past half century, however, attitudes on one topic have stood in sharp contrast to this group's generally progressive stance: support for Israel. Despite Israel's record of militarism, illegal settlements and human rights violations, American Jews have, stretching back to the 1960s, remained largely steadfast supporters of the Jewish "homeland." But, as Norman Finkelstein explains in an elegantly-argued and richly-textured new book, this is now beginning to change. Reports by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the United Nations, and books by commentators as prominent as President Jimmy Carter and as well-respected in the scholarly community as Stephen Walt, John Mearsheimer and Peter Beinart, have increasingly pinpointed the fundamental illiberalism of the Israeli state. In the light of these exposes, the support of America Jews for Israel has begun to fray. This erosion has been particularly marked among younger members of the community. A 2010 Brandeis University poll found that only about one quarter of Jews aged under 40 today feel "very much" connected to Israel. In successive chapters that combine Finkelstein's customary meticulous research with polemical brio, Knowing Too Much sets the work of defenders of Israel such as Jeffrey Goldberg, Michael Oren, Dennis Ross and Benny Morris against the historical record, showing their claims to be increasingly tendentious. As growing numbers of American Jews come to see the speciousness of the arguments behind such apologias and recognize Israel's record as simply indefensible, Finkelstein points to the opening of new possibilities for political advancement in a region that for decades has been stuck fast in a gridlock of injustice and suffering.

OR Books, 2012. - 470页。传统上，美国犹太人的政治观点是广泛自由的；事实上，非裔美国人是唯一一个在美国选举中更有可能投票给民主党的族裔群体。然而，在过去的半个世纪里，人们对一个问题的态度与这个群体的普遍进步立场形成了鲜明的对比：对以色列的支持。尽管以色列有军国主义、非法定居点和侵犯人权的记录，但美国犹太人从20世纪60年代开始，基本上一直是这个犹太 "家园 "的坚定支持者。但是，正如诺曼-芬克尔斯坦在一本论证优雅、内涵丰富的新书中所解释的那样，这种情况现在开始改变了。人权观察、国际特赦组织和联合国的报告，以及像吉米-卡特总统这样著名的评论员和像斯蒂芬-沃尔特、约翰-米尔斯海默和彼得-贝纳特这样在学术界备受尊敬的评论员的书，已经越来越多地指出了以色列国家的基本非自由主义。鉴于这些揭露，美国犹太人对以色列的支持已经开始减弱。这种侵蚀在该社区的年轻成员中尤为明显。2010年布兰代斯大学的一项民意调查发现，今天只有大约四分之一的40岁以下的犹太人感到与以色列有 "非常 "的联系。在连续几章中，芬克尔斯坦将其惯常的缜密研究与论战精神相结合，《了解太多》将杰弗里-戈德堡、迈克尔-奥伦、丹尼斯-罗斯和本尼-莫里斯等以色列的捍卫者的工作与历史记录相对照，显示他们的主张越来越具有倾向性。随着越来越多的美国犹太人看清了这些辩解背后似是而非的论点，并认识到以色列的记录是根本无法辩解的，芬克尔斯坦指出，在这个几十年来一直陷于不公正和痛苦的僵局中的地区，政治进步的新可能性已经开启。