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The Euston Manifesto is a 2006 declaration of principles by a group of Zionist academics, journalists and activists based in the United Kingdom. The statement was a reaction to what the writers argued to be widespread violations of leftist principles by others who were commonly associated with the Left. The manifesto states that "the reconfiguration of progressive opinion that we aim for involves drawing a line between forces on the Left that remain true to its authentic values, and currents that have lately shown themselves rather too flexible about these values".〔("The Euston Manifesto" ), March 29, 2006.〕 These alleged violations mainly concerned Middle East issues, including the Iraq War, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the war on terror. Broadly speaking, the group asserted that the Left was over-critical of the actions of Western governments, such as the military presence in Iraq, and correspondingly was overly supportive of forces opposing Western governments, such as the Iraqi insurgent forces. The document says "we must define ourselves against those for whom the entire progressive-democratic agenda has been subordinated to a blanket and simplistic 'anti-imperialism' and/or hostility to the current US administration."〔 The manifesto proposed a "fresh political alignment", which involves "making common cause with genuine democrats, whether socialist or not", in which the Left stands for democracy, freedom, equality, internationalism, the open-source movement and historical truth, while condemning all forms of tyranny, terrorism, anti-Americanism, racism and anti-Semitism, including any form of it that "conceal() prejudice against the Jewish people behind the formula of 'anti-Zionism'".〔 The signatories said they "reject fear of modernity, fear of freedom, irrationalism, the subordination of women", and reaffirm the ideas that inspired the great rallying calls of the democratic revolutions of the eighteenth century: liberty, equality and solidarity; human rights; the pursuit of happiness ... But we are not zealots. For we embrace also the values of free enquiry, open dialogue and creative doubt, of care in judgement and a sense of the intractabilities of the world. We stand against all claims to a total — unquestionable or unquestioning — truth.〔 The Euston Manifesto was criticised by detractors who alleged that it supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq, equated opposition to Israel with anti-Semitism, and was an attempt to rally pro-war sentiment among the Left.〔(A New Pro-Imperialist "Left" Manifesto ), John Farley, Counterpunch, May 27–29, 2006〕 ==Euston Manifesto Group== The authors and their collaborators call themselves the "Euston Manifesto Group". There are about thirty members of the group, four of whom were most heavily involved in authoring the document: Norman Geras, Marxist scholar and professor emeritus at Manchester University; Damian Counsell; Alan Johnson, editor of ''Democratiya''; and Shalom Lappin. Other members include Nick Cohen of ''The Observer'',〔Gilad Atzmon, ("Connecting the Zionist Dots," ) (24 June 2010). Retrieved 17.01.2015.〕 who co-authored with Geras the first report on the manifesto in the mainstream press; Marc Cooper of ''The Nation''; Francis Wheen, a journalist and authority on Marx; and historian Marko Attila Hoare. (see (complete list )) The manifesto began as a conversation between friends, a gathering of (mainly British) academics, journalists, and activists. At their first meeting in London they decided to write a "minimal manifesto", a short document summarising their core values.〔("Putting It Down" ), PooterGeek, June 13, 2006〕 The original intention of its proposer was that the manifesto would provide a rallying point for a number of left-leaning blogs, to be collected by an aggregator, and the basis for a book collecting some of the best writing about related political questions. The group met more formally after the document's first drafting, at a branch of the O'Neill's Irish-themed pub chain on London's Euston Road—just across the road from the British Library—where the manifesto was named, and its content voted on. It was first published in the ''New Statesman'' on 7 April 2006.〔Glavin, Terry. "Shake it to the left," ''The Globe and Mail'', June 3, 2006.〕 There are similarities between the manifesto and the aims of the Henry Jackson Society which was launched at Cambridge University in March 2005. Some Henry Jackson Society members are among the signatories of the manifesto. Figures around the American journal ''Telos'' have launched an American chapter of the Euston group. Early signatories of the American statement included Ronald Radosh, Martin Peretz, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Michael Ledeen and Walter Laqueur. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Euston Manifesto」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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