About this title: Since the 1948 war which drove them from their homeland, the Palestinian people have consistently been denied the most basic democratic rights. Blaming The Victims shows how the historical fate of the Palestinians has been justified by spurious academic attempts to dismiss their claim to a home within the boundaries of historical Palestine and even to deny their very existence. Beginning with a thorough expose of the fraudulent assertions of Joan Peters concerning the indigenous inhabitants of Palestine prior to 1948, the book then turns to similar instances in Middle East research where the ...
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Description: Fair. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: SOME ] [ Torn pages: NO ] [ Broken Seams: NO ] Publisher: Verso Books Pub Date: 1/1/1988 Binding: Paperback Pages: 304. read more
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Edition: Trade Paper
Binding: Softcover Good
Publisher: Verso, London / New York
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780860918875ISBN:0860918874
Description: Good. No Jacket. Trade Paper Nonfiction History: Essays relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict in Palestine and the Middle East in a good trade paperback edition. read more
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Publisher: Verso, London
Date Published: 2001
Description: Minor rubbing. VG. 23x14cm, vi, 296 pp, PAPERBACK. Contents: Conspiracy of praise / Edward W. Said--Disinformation and the Palestine question / Norman G. Finkelstein--Broadcasts / Christopher Hitchens--Truth whereby nations live / Peretz Kidron--Middle East terrorism and the American ideological system / Noam Chomsky--The essential terrorist / Edward W. Said--Michael Walzer's "Exodus and revolution / Edward W. Said--Palestine / G. W. Bowersock--Territorially-based nationalism and the politics ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Verso Books
Date Published: 1/1/1988
ISBN-13:9780860918875ISBN:0860918874
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Verso Books
Date Published: 1988-01
ISBN-13:9780860918875ISBN:0860918874
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Date Published: 1988
Description: VG+ Light edgewear, spine creased.; 8vo; 296 pages; Collection of articles that show 'how the historical fate of the Palestinians has been justified by spurious academic attempts to dismiss their claim to a home within the boundaries of historical Palestine and even to deny their very existence. ' read more
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Publisher: Verso Books
Date Published: 1988-01
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Verso Books
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781859843406ISBN:1859843409
Description: New. This book demonstrates how the denial of truth about the Palestinians by governments and the media in the West has led to the current impasse in Middle East politics. The book attempts to redress a sustained crime against historical truth in order to... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Verso Books
Date Published: 1988-01
ISBN-13:9780860918875ISBN:0860918874
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Edition: 2ND ED
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Verso, UK
ISBN-13:9781859843406ISBN:1859843409
Description: New. Please note that deliveries to addresses in the UK and Europe will be in 4-14 business days. Other countries should refer to Alibris standard times. "Blaming The Victims" demonstrates with cold precision how the denial of truth about Palestinians by the governments and the media has led to the current impasse in Middle East politics. Controversial, forceful and honest, it attempts to redress a crime against historical truth to make a more rational future possible. ISBN10: 1859843409. read more
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"An older cousin of mine gave me this book when I was fourteen. It played a seminal role in the development of my anti-Zionist politics. Twenty years later (give or take--and feel free to take), I'm a bit saddened that half the contributors can reasonably be considered Zionists (Finkelstein, Chomsky, Hitchens)."
"The subtitle of this bk is "Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question". I'm barely knowledgable about Palestine, basically just supportive of the Palestinian cause because it seems so flagrantly clear that the Israelis have displaced them. At any rate, I found it to be convincing that the editors, Edward Said & Christopher Hitchens, are legitimate scholars on the subject & found that they stated their case clearly & convincingly."
"Said and Hitchens's edited volume takes aim at the "spurious scholarship" on Israel, Zionism, and the Palestinians which lays the onus on the Palestinians for their own oppression. The various essays in the book take on the fallacies that the Palestinians fled because mysterious Arab "broadcasts" told them to, that Palestinians are uniquely vicious terrorists, and that there is no such thing as a Palestinian nation or national resistance movement.
On this last count, the book also serves as a concerted polemic against Joan Peters's From Time Immemorial, which essentially argues that the Palestinians as such did not exist--that the people displaced by the '48 nakba were recent immigrants from the surrounding countries. As Norman Finkelstein and others point out, the book is a "monumental hoax," filled with inaccuracies, misrepresentations, plagiarism, and outright lies. Yet in the surreal world of scholarship and discourse around the question of Palestine, this sort of garbage passes as an historic achievement, as one reviewer called From Time Immemorial. The book was almost universally greeted with accolades in the US, and a number of well-respected intellectuals gave the book glowing reviews--even Saul Bellow, which was quite painful to hear. Fortunately, a few reviewers in the US and Europe called the book what it was, "ludicrous and worthless," in the words of Albert Hourani (28).
I always wonder about books that explicitly, or implicitly in this case, function as a polemic against another book. This question comes up often in Finkelstein's work. I think that when scholarship is so misleading or fradulent, and is accepted by large swathes of people, book-length polemics are perfectly reasonable. This is, I think, the case for books like From Time Immemorial, Dershowitz's The Case for Israel, or other books like the Bell Curve or Time on the Cross. Blaming the Victims is an important book in this respect--and also has the distinction of being the only useful thing Hitchens has done."
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