The Idea of Israel by Ilan Pappe

The Idea of Israel by Ilan Pappe

Since Israel's foundation in 1948, one guiding idea has been the cornerstone of its identity, its politics and its actions: Zionism. In this groundbreaking new history, Ilan Pappe looks at the role of ideology in Israel's development, from its inception to the present day. In doing so, he considers the role of the country's universities, education system and media, looking at their production of knowledge and information, and the way such knowledge has been used to provide an ideological scaffolding for the state and to shape realities on the ground. He explores how, in the course of one decade, the Oslo years of the 1990s, this idea came under sustained questioning for the first time-since when, former critics have once more rallied round the national consensus. Was this episode, he asks, a one-off, or does it promise a new direction for Israel? In exploring the links between academic and media institutions, and the state, The Idea of Israel explores a topic that resonates throughout the western world: the fraught interrelationship between the production of knowledge and the exercise of power.

Along with Edward Said, Ilan Pappé is the most eloquent writer of Palestinian history* New Statesman *
Israel's bravest, most principled, most incisive historian. -- John Pilger

Ilan Pappe is an Israeli historian and socialist activist. He is a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter, director of the university's European Centre for Palestine Studies, and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies. He writes for, among others, the Guardian and the London Review of Books.

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ISBN 13	9781844678563
ISBN 10	1844678563
Title	The Idea of Israel
Author	Ilan Pappe
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Publisher	Verso Books
Year published	2014-02-04
Number of pages	288
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