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Blaming the Victims:Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question
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An essential collection of key essays that looks at the manufacture of Israeli propaganda and how that then spreads into news, academia and political knowledge.
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. With contributions from Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, Janet L. Abu-Lughod, Noam Chomsky, Norman G. Finkelstein, Rashid Khalidi, Blaming The Victims explore how Israel not only conquered the land but also the battle of ‘ideas, representations, rhetoric, and images’. Chomksy looks at how this then feeds into the American ideological system, while Finkelstein looks at the formation of pseudohistory in order to establish Israeli primacy in the region.
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Reviews
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The wide-ranging scope and demythologising structure of Blaming the Victims makes it especially relevant at the present time when the actions of the state of Israel seem to contradict received opinion as to its nature. The book provides a great quantity of information, analyses it convincingly and, through an impressive body of notes on primary and secondary literature, points the reader in the direction of further information.
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These forcefully argued treatises will be as enlightening as they are disturbing for anyone with an interest in Middle East politics.
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