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Excerpt from Coca-Cola, Black Panthers, Phantom Jets: Israel in the American Orbit, 1967–1973
Abstract
During a period conventionally viewed as an expansion of American soft power aided by the rise of global capitalism, historian Oz Frankel reevaluates the US influence on Israeli society through the lens of transcultural exchange, tracing the adoption and reshaping of the Black Panther movement in Israeli society, where it was embraced not only by the Left but also by reactionary voices, ultimately underscoring that it was not so much or not only Israelis who became americanized but also American culture and politics that came into the orbit of Israeli-American transculturation.