Blaming the Victims

Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question

Bibliographic Data

ID9828048
AuthorsJohn C Campbell (corresponding author), Edward Said
Year1988
Volume66
Issue4
Pages887
Publication date1988-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeREVIEW
Review ofBlaming the victims: Spurious scholarship and the Palestinian question, Christopher Hitchens, 1988
VenueForeign Affairs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0015-7120 • E-ISSN: 2327-7793
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/20043545
OpenAlexW1508099765
LanguageEN

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 truth about the Palestinians has been systematically suppressed: from the bogus - though still widely believed - explanations of why so many Palestinians fled their homes in 1948, to today's distorted propaganda about PLO terrorism. The volume also includes sharp critiques of the wide consensus in the USA which supports Israel and its territorial ambitions while maintaining total silence about the competing reality of the Palestinians. Contributors include Norman G. Finkelstein, Peretz Kidron, Noam Chomsky, G. W. Bowerstock, Ibrahim Abu-Loghod, Rashid Khalidi, Janet L. Abu-Lughod, Muhammed Hallaj, and Elia Zureik

Criminology · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Spurious relationship · Statistics · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Mathematics · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts

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