Name: The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge (in English)
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Author: Ilan Pappé
ISBN: 9781784782016

portada The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Ilan Pappé

Publisher

Verso

Year

2015

Language

English

Pages

346

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781784782016

Synopsis "The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge (in English)"

Since its foundation in 1948, Israel has drawn on Zionism, the movement behind its creation, to provide a sense of self and political direction. In this groundbreaking new work, Ilan Pappe looks at the continued role of Zionist ideology. The Idea of Israel considers the way Zionism operates outside of the government and military in areas such as the country’s education system, media, and cinema, and the uses that are made of the Holocaust in supporting the state’s ideological structure.In particular, Pappe examines the way successive generations of historians have framed the 1948 conflict as a liberation campaign, creating a foundation myth that went unquestioned in Israeli society until the 1990s. Pappe himself was part of the post-Zionist movement that arose then. He was attacked and received death threats as he exposed the truth about how Palestinians have been treated and the gruesome structure that links the production of knowledge to the exercise of power. The Idea of Israel is a powerful and urgent intervention in the war of ideas concerning the past, and the future, of the Palestinian–Israeli conflict.

Ilan Pappé

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Historiador y conferenciante de Ciencia Política en la Universidad de Haifa. Es también Director Académico del Instituto de Investigación para la Paz en Givat Haviva. Es autor de numerosos libros, entre los cuales se incluyen The Israel/Palestine Question (2003), The Modern Middle East (2005), A History of Modern Palestine (2006) o Historia de la Palestina moderna: un territorio, dos pueblos (2007).

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