The New York Review of books has an important piece on how Jewish establishment has failed to deal with slow change in the way Jewish Liberals view Israel- a shift away from sense that Israel is a endangered life raft saving a persecuted minority from Holocaust and Arabs country and it needs unquestioned support as it is surrounded by overwhelming Arab Powers.
The new reality the Majority of Jews in American grow up with post 1967 is Israel as a regional occupying power.
Given this, Liberals Jewish youth are asking why shouldn't Israel be judged international humanititarian standards? When such discourse is blocked in Jewish circles, the result is a dissonance with most Jewish Youth choosing to retain their liberal values and feeling little connection with Israel.
It note the shift to the right of US Jewish Organization as they become captive of fundamentalist Jews...who fill in as Secural liberals leave...and the shift for Israeli governments from Socialistic/Labor party until 1980's to Religous & Nationalistic parties.
Peter Beinart: The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment
The article raises this question as American Jewish Youth are Liberal, are increasingly alienated from Jewish establishment. And as a result the Jewish establishment has becoming increasingly capitive of Orthodox Jews who maintain a pessimistic view of the world, the possibility of peace with the Arabs, and a particularistic sense of Jews vs Non-Jews.
It raises this question in the dissonance between liberal values of discourse, tolerance of diversity and universal ethics and a liberal messianistic optimism about the future, aa contrasted with a more traditional "conservative" sense of the world- pessimism about world peace and brotherhood, that Jews can't ever trust anyone fully, and that they special, and Jewish survival means the value of Unity must checkmate any need for critical discuss of polices of the current Israeli government.
The article questions the future of the American Judaism with this broad disconnect between the values of its youth-who take their Liberalism seriously -- and those the American Jewish Establishment excercises in regard to Israel.