Tolerance Is a Wasteland
Palestine and the Culture of Denial
How denial sustains the liberal imagination of a progressive and democratic Israel. The question that this book aims to answer might seem simple: how can a violent project of dispossession and discrimination be imagined, felt, and profoundly believed in as though it were the exact opposite--an embodiment of sustainability, multicultural tolerance, and democratic idealism? Despite well-documented evidence of racism and human rights abuse, Israel has long been embraced by the most liberal sectors of European and American society as a manifestation of the progressive values of tolerance, plurality, inclusivity, and democracy, and hence a project…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-520-97579-8
- EAN: 9780520975798
- Produktnummer: 37622482
- Verlag: University of California Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 244 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Saree Makdisi is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA. His previous books include Making England Western: Occidentalism, Race and Imperial Culture; Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation; and Reading William Blake.
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