Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question |
 |
 click here for more details, find new or used items |
Pages: 304 (Paperback) Editor: Christopher Hitchens ISBN: 1859843409 Pub: Verso Books Pub date: 2001-04-24 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 120045 |
|||||
 |
 |
Reader Reviews:
Zionist Myths Debunked - In Style. (1/1 people found this helpful)
Zionists attempt to legitimise Israel and delegitimise the Palestinian cause via a series of myths. This book takes just some of these myths, that have often been backed by supposed scholarship, and debunks them. The book is a series of essays. The following are, I think, the highlights.
First is the fantastic lie contained in Joan Peters 'From Time Immemorial' which claimed to prove that the Palestinians were not from Palestine but were immigrants from elsewhere - supposed proof that Palestine was, literally, a land without people. Norman Finkelstein's excellent piece shows how Peters lied, misquoted, invented evidence, plagiarised previous worthless 'scholarship' on this issue to support her case. Finkelstein's demolition is a classic. It's also laugh-out-loud funny due to the hamfisted nature of the way Peters constructed her fraud.
Chris Hitchens (yes, Hitchens used to be on the side of the underdog) is next up to show how the Zionist claim that the Palestinians left due to radio broadcasts from Arab leaders has no evidence whatever to support it.
In 'Palestine: Ancient History and Modern Politics', G. W. Bowersock shows how large parts of Palestine were inhabited by Arabs and Arab political entities in Biblical times - contrary to Zionist claims that Arabs only arrived in Palestine in the 7th century.
Ibrahim Abu-Lughod shows how the Revisionist Zionist myth that 'Jordan is Palestine' is bunkum, as he examines the British creation of Trans-Jordan in the wake of the demise of the Hashemite Kingdom of Syria.
Rashid Khalidi shows how the Palestinian peasantry had, even before WWI, resisted their expulsion from their land for Zionist settlement, showing an attachment to the land that is denied by Zionist propaganda.
Similar Products
The Fateful Triangle: United States, Israel and the Palestinians
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World
Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
Categories
Amazon.co.uk places this book into the following categories:
Books -> Subjects -> History -> Countries & Regions -> Asia -> 1946-Present
Books -> Subjects -> History -> Other Historical Subjects -> Historiography
Books -> Subjects -> History -> World History
Books -> Subjects -> History -> General
Books -> Refinements -> Language (feature_browse-bin) -> English
Books -> Refinements -> Age (feature_two_browse-bin)
Books -> Refinements -> Format (binding_browse-bin) -> Paperback
Books -> Refinements -> Condition (condition-type)