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Blaming the victims : spurious scholarship and the Palestinian question / edited by Edward W. Said and Christopher Hitchens.

Title
Blaming the victims : spurious scholarship and the Palestinian question / edited by Edward W. Said and Christopher Hitchens.
Publication
London ; New York : Verso, 2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Said, Edward W.
  • Hitchens, Christopher
Description
vi, 296 p. : ill., maps; 22 cm.
Summary
Since the 1948 war which drove them from their homeland, the Palestinian people have consistently been denied the most basic democratic rights. [This book] shows how the historical fate of the Palestinians has been justified by spurious academic attempts to dismiss their claim to a home within the boundaries of historical Palestine and even to deny their very existence. Beginning with a thorough expose of the fraudulent assertions of Joan Peters concerning the indigenous inhabitants of Palestine prior to 1948, the book then turns to similar instances in Middle East research where the truth about the Palestinians has been systematically suppressed: from the bogus - though still widely believed - explanations of why so many Palestinians fled their homes in 1948, to today's distorted propaganda about PLO terrorism. The volume also includes sharp critiques of the wide consensus in the USA which supports Israel and its territorial ambitions while maintaining total silence about the competing reality of the Palestinians.-Back cover.
Subject
  • Israel
  • Geschichte
  • Arab-Israeli conflict > Historiography
  • Palestinian Arabs > Historiography
Genre/Form
Aufsatzsammlung.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Conspiracy of praise / Edward W. Said -- Disinformation and the Palestine question / Norman G. Finkelstein -- Broadcasts / Christopher Hitchens -- Truth whereby nations live / Peretz Kidron -- Middle East terrorism and the American ideological system / Noam Chomsky -- The essential terrorist / Edward W. Said -- Michael Walzer's "Exodus and revolution / Edward W. Said -- Palestine / G. W. Bowersock -- Territorially-based nationalism and the politics of negation / Ibrahim Abu-Lughod -- Palestinian peasant resistance to Zionism before World War 1 / Rashid Khalidi -- A profile of the Palestinian people / Edward W. Said ... [et al.]
ISBN
1859843409
OCLC
  • 47969559
  • SCSB-11920797
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library