Mikhal Dekel is an Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at The City College of the City University of New York. Her book, The Universal Jew: Masculinity, Modernity, and the Zionist Moment, was published in January by Northwestern University Press.
The recent protests and rallies in Tel Aviv are evidence that today’s twenty-somethings are suddenly realizing what they have traded in for their supposedly higher, more Americanized “lifestyle.”