Jeffrey Herf, THE JERUSALEM POST Jan. 4, 2007
On March 29, 2006, a group of British intellectuals posted “The Euston Manifesto”. Evoking the traditions of the anti-fascist and anti-totalitarian democratic Left, they defended liberal democracy and Enlightenment values while denouncing anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, terrorism and the radical Islam that inspired it. They called for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Euston Manifesto struck a nerve. More than 2,700 people, mostly in Britain but also in the United States, Europe and around the world, signed the manifesto on-line.
In August, a group of liberals and centrists in the US decided to write and circulate “American Liberalism and the Euston Manifesto” in an effort to continue the effort begun in London. I wrote a draft which was debated and discussed by my co-authors Russell Berman, Thomas Cushman, Richard Just, Robert Lieber, Andrei Markovits and Fred Siegel. On September 12, we posted our statement on the Euston Manifesto Web site. The full statement and a list of more than 200 prominent signers are also available at the Web site of “New American Liberalism”. CONTINUE
