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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807394703321

Autore

Salaita Steven <1975->

Titolo

Israel's dead soul / / Steven Salaita

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-13385-7

9786613133854

1-4399-0639-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 p.)

Disciplina

320.54095694

Soggetti

Israel and the diaspora

Jews - Attitudes toward Israel

Jews - Political activity - United States

National characteristics, Israeli

Multiculturalism - Political aspects - Israel

Politics and culture

Israel Ethnic relations

Israel Social conditions 21st century

Israel Politics and government 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Israel as cultural icon: the vacillating boundaries of Jewish identity -- Is the Anti-Defamation League a hate group? -- Ethnonationalism as an object of multicultural decorum: the case of Cornel West and Michael Eric Dyson -- Sexuality, violence, and modernity in Israel: the paradise of not being Arab -- The heart of darkness redux, again -- Epilogue: a eulogy to Israel's dead soul.

Sommario/riassunto

In his courageous book, Israel's Dead Soul, Steven Salaita explores the failures of Zionism as a political and ethical discourse. He argues that endowing nation-states with souls is a dangerous phenomenon because it privileges institutions and corporations rather than human beings.Asserting that Zionism has been normalized--rendered ""benign"" as an ideology of ""multicultural conviviality""-Salaita critiques the idea that Zionism, as an exceptional ideology, leads to a



lack of critical awareness of the effects of the Israeli occupation in Palestinian territory and to an