Traditionally American Jews have been broadly liberal in their political outlook indeed AfricanAmericans 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 groups generally progressive stance support for Israel.amp10Despite Israels record of militarism illegal settlements and human rights violations American Jews have stretching back to the 1960s remained largely steadfast supporters of the Jewish amp34homelandamp34. But as Norman Finkelstein explains in an elegantlyargued and richlytextured new book this is now beginning to change.amp10Reports by Human Rights Watch Amnesty International and the United Nations and books by commentators as prominent as President Jimmy Carter and as wellrespected 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 amp34very muchamp34 connected to Israel.amp10In successive chapters that combine Finkelsteins customary meticulous research with polemical brioamp160Knowing Too Muchamp160sets 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 Israels 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.