False Prophets of Peace

Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine

von Tikva Honig-Parnass

350 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book refutes the long held view of the Israeli left as adhering to a humanistic, democratic and even socialist tradition, attributed to the historic Zionist Labor movement. Through a critical analysis of the prevailing discourse of Zionist intellectuals and activists on the Jewish-democratic state, it uncovers the Zionist left's central role in laying the foundation of the colonial settler state of Israel, in articulating its hegemonic ideology and in legitimizing, whether explicitly or implicitly, the apartheid treatment of Palestinians both inside Israel and in the 1967 occupied territories. Their determined support of a Jewish-only state underlies the failure of the “peace process," initiated by the Zionist Left, to reach a just peace based on recognition of the national rights of the entire Palestinian people.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Politik und Staat Politische Kontrolle, Propaganda und Freiheitsrechte Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• ISBN: 9781608461301
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.11.2011
• Größe: 228 x 149 mm
• Verlag: Haymarket Books