{"title":"Raja Khouri","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"wall-between-book-raja-khouri-9781623717193","title":"The Wall Between","description":"\u003cb\u003eA groundbreaking book that offers concrete ways for Jews and Palestinians to speak (and listen) differently to each other.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Between\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about the wall that exists between Jewish and Palestinian communities in the Diaspora. Distrust, enmity, and hate are common currencies. They manifest at university campuses, schools and school boards, at political events, on social media, and in academic circles. For Jews, Israel must exist; for Palestinians, the historic injustice being committed since 1948 must be reversed. Neither wants to know why the Other cannot budge on these issues. The wall is up.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e These responses emanate, primarily, from the two \"metanarratives\" of Jews and Palestinians: the Holocaust and the Nakba. Virtually every response to the struggle, from a member of either community, can be traced back to issues of identity, trauma, and victimhood as they relate to their respective metanarrative. This book examines the role that propaganda and disinformation play in cementing trauma-induced fears for the purpose of making the task of humanizing and acknowledging the Other not just difficult, but almost inconceivable. The authors utilize recent cognitive research on the psychological and social barriers that keep Jews and Palestinians in their camps, walled off from each other. They present a clear way through, one that is justice-centered, rather than trauma-and propaganda-driven.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The authors have lived these principles and traveled this journey, away from their tribal traumas, through embracing the principles of justice. They insist that commitment to the Other means grappling with seemingly incompatible narratives until shared values are decided and acted upon. This book is a call to justice that challenges the status quo of Zionism while at the same time dealing directly with the complex histories that have created the situation today. The book is both realistic and hopeful--a guide for anyone who is open to new possibilities within the Israel-Palestine discourse in the West.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50275477553425,"sku":"CIN1623717191G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51039519801617,"sku":"NIN9781623717193","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52111010496785,"sku":"NGR9781623717193","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1623717191.jpg?v=1751151221"},{"product_id":"wall-between-book-raja-khouri-9781623715526","title":"The Wall Between","description":"\u003cb\u003eA groundbreaking book that offers concrete ways for Jews and Palestinians to speak (and listen) differently to each other.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Between\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about the wall that exists between Jewish and Palestinian communities in the Diaspora, where distrust, enmity, and hate are common currencies.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e At the time when the first edition was published on October 3, 2023, none of us imagined the tsunami of events that would be unleashed four days later. No one speculated that the highly-polarized and polarizing, Israel-Palestine discourse, was about to become even more poisoned and poisonous. And no one in our society appeared to be immune: college campuses, school boards, workplaces, places of worship, family dinner tables, among friends.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The wall that was up before October 7, 2023, is now deeper, bigger and wider. For many diaspora Jews and their supporters, the need for Israel and for defending it has become greater than ever after the atrocities of October 7. For many diaspora Palestinians and their supporters, the need to expose and end the decades-long oppression and dispossession of Palestinians has become greater than ever after the genocidal destruction of Gaza.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This new edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Between\u003c\/i\u003e explores the many shifts in narratives, allegiances, and political priorities that have taken place in Western societies. The authors explain the significance of heightened awareness of the Palestinian narrative they experienced while traveling across North America; the upsides and downsides of the adoption of the Palestinian cause by the left; how Jewish communities have struggled holding together their Judaism and Zionism, and how many young Jews have coalesced around the cause of justice for Palestinians in a way we had not seen before.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Between\u003c\/i\u003e encourages all of us who care about Israelis and Palestinians to resist retreating further into their tribal silos, but rather to come\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e out from \"behind the wall\" and co-resist together in a new direction, guided by the shared values of justice, equal rights and dignity for all.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53656928682257,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53656928715025,"sku":"NIN9781623715526","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781623715526.jpg?v=1781413779"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-raja-khouri.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}