The Idea of Israel
A History of Power and Knowledge
Published on 4. February 2014
288 pages
978-1-78168-545-7 (ISBN)
Description
Ilan Pappe's pioneering work, first published in 2014, is a devastating critique of the conceptual foundations of the Israeli state. Divorced from material and political realities, blind to the violent occupation of Palestine, Israel as an idea has been commodified and marketed across the Western world. Now published with a new preface, The Idea of Israel remains a powerful intervention in the struggle to reclaim the past and shape the future in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Reflowable
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File size
0,44 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78168-545-7 (9781781685457)
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Person
Ilan Pappe is an Israeli historian and socialist activist. He is a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter, director of the university's European Centre for Palestine Studies, and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction: Debating the Idea of Israel
- Part I: The Scholarly and Fictional Idea of Israel
- 1: The 'Objective' History of the Land and the People
- 2: The Alien Who Became a Terrorist: The Palestinian in Zionist Thought
- 3: The War of 1948 in Word and Image
- Part II: Israel's Post-Zionist Moment
- 4: The Trailblazers
- 5: Recognising the Palestinian Catastrophe: The 1948 War Revisited
- 6: The Emergence of Post-Zionist Academia, 1990-2000
- 7: Touching the Raw Nerves of Society: Holocaust Memory in Israel
- 8: The Idea of Israel and the Arab Jews
- 9: The Post-Zionist Cultural Moment
- 10: On the Post-Zionist Stage and Screen
- 11: The Triumph of Neo-Zionism
- 12: The Neo-Zionist New Historians
- Epilogue: Brand Israel 2013
- Notes
- Further Reading
