Jewish Wars

Name: Jewish Wars
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ISBN: 9781412811323

ISBN-10: 1412811325

ISBN-13: 9781412811323

Edition: 2010

Authors: Edward Alexander, Edward Alexander

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Edward Alexander launches a counterattack in the war of ideas over Zionism, very much a warrior using words and ideas as his weapons. This book begins with a dissection of the first (1987) Intifada and deals with people and events through 1994, when Israel, having embraced the PLO, began their withdrawal from the disputed territories. Alexander shows how the Intifada proved to be a potent propaganda tool for its organizers. The spectacle of young Palestinians facing Israeli soldiers won for Arabs precisely the victory they had sought: it moved liberal, especially Jewish liberal, sympathy decisively to the side of the Palestinians. Alexander criticizes prominent figures in politics,…

Book details

List price: $50.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 9/15/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638

Edward Alexander is professor of English at the University of Washington, Seattle.



Introduction to the Transaction Edition


Introduction



Making Arabs into Jews: David Grossman's The Yellow Wind



To Mend the Universe or Mind the Vineyard?



Leonard Fein, David Novak, and American Jewry



Edward Alexander Replies to His Critics



Antisemitism, Israeli-Style



Professor of Terror



Edward Said on ï¿½Collaboratorsï¿½



Edward Alexander Replies to His Critics



The Wit and Wisdom of Alexander Cockburn



Countries Deserving Rape



Cockburn, Two and a Half Years Later, Strikes Back; and Edward Alexander Replies



Praying for Nazis, Scolding Their Victims: Archbishop Tutu's Christmas Message to Israel



The Holocaust … and Me



Nelson Mandela and the Jews: The Dickens-Fagin Pattern



The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel: Patrick Buchanan's Anti-Jewish Patriotism



The Rosh Hashanah Sermon



The Yom Kippur Sermon



Michael Kinsley and Patrick Buchanan: An Unpublished Letter



Why Jews Must Behave Better than Everybody Else: The Theory and Practice of the Double Standard



Multiculturalism's Jewish Problem



Some of My Best Friends Are Antisemites: William F. Buckley's Dilemma



What the Holocaust Does Not Teach



The Nerve of Ruth Wisse



Michael Lerner: The Clintons' Jewish Rasputin



Noam Chomsky and Holocaust Denial



The Neo-Nazis and Their Apologists



Edward Alexander Replies to His Critics



Israel's Embrace of the PLO: The Beginning of the End?


Notes


Index