False prophets of peace: liberal Zionism and the struggle for Palestine 9781608462148, 1608462145, 978-1-60846-130-1

This critique of Left Zionism argues a Jewish-only state cannot offer peace or justice for Palestinians. Abstract: This

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False prophets of peace: liberal Zionism and the struggle for Palestine
 9781608462148, 1608462145, 978-1-60846-130-1

Table of contents :
Content: The physical and symbolic erasure of the Palestinian presence from the land, past and present --
"Jewish majority" spells racism --
Equal rights --
A theocratic Jewish state --
The assertion of the democratic nature of the state --
Post-Zionism
a failed departure from Zionist left discourse --
Revisionist social sciences: pre-state colonization and the 1948 War --
The postmodernist current in post-Zionism --
The Zionist left and "peace."

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