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The idea of Israel : a history of power and knowledge /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pappé, Ilan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London, England ; Brooklyn, New York : Verso, 2014.
Subjects:
Israel > History.
Israel > Politics and government.
Israel > Social conditions.
Jews > Israel > History.
Post-Zionism.
Judaism and state > Israel.
Territory, National > Israel.
Arab-Israeli conflict.
Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949.
Jewish-Arab relations.
Israel > Ethnic relations.
Zionism > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: debating the idea of Israel
  • Pt. 1. The scholarly and fictional idea of Israel
  • The 'objective' history of the land and the people
  • The alien who became a terrorist: the Palestinian in Zionist thought
  • The war of 1948 in word and image
  • Pt. 2. Israel's post-Zionist moment
  • The trailblazers
  • Recognizing the Palestinian catastrophe: the 1948 war revisited
  • The emergence of post-Zionist academia, 1990-2000
  • Touching the raw nerves of society: Holocaust memory in Israel
  • The idea of Israel and the Arab Jews
  • The post-Zionist cultural moment
  • On the Post-Zionist stage and screen
  • The triumph of neo-Zionism
  • The neo-Zionist new historians
  • Epilogue: brand Israel 2013.