The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and KnowledgeVerso Books, 2014 M02 4 - 288 pages 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. |
Contents
The Objective History of the Land and the People | |
The Palestinian in Zionist Thought | |
The War of 1948 in Word and Image | |
The Trailblazers | |
The 1948 War Revisited | |
The Emergence of PostZionist Academia 19902000 | |
Holocaust Memory in Israel | |
The PostZionist Cultural Moment | |
On the PostZionist Stage and Screen | |
The Triumph of NeoZionism | |
The NeoZionist New Historians | |
Brand Israel 2013 | |
Notes | |
The Idea of Israel and the Arab Jews | |
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