Reading Herzl in Beirut (eBook)

The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy

Jonathan Marc Gribetz (Autor)

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2024
408 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-25563-7 (ISBN)

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How the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center informed the PLO's relationship to Zionism and IsraelIn September 1982, the Israeli military invaded West Beirut and Israel-allied Lebanese militiamen massacred Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. Meanwhile, Israeli forces also raided the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center and trucked its complete library to Israel. Palestinian activists and supporters protested loudly to international organizations and the Western press, claiming that the assault on the Center proved that the Israelis sought to destroy not merely Palestinian militants but Palestinian culture as well. The protests succeeded: in November 1983, Israel returned the library as part of a prisoner exchange. What was in that library?Much of the expansive collection the PLO amassed consisted of books about Judaism, Zionism, and Israel. In Reading Herzl in Beirut, Jonathan Marc Gribetz tells the story of the PLO Research Center from its establishment in 1965 until its ultimate expulsion from Lebanon in 1983. Gribetz explores why the PLO invested in research about the Jews, what its researchers learned about Judaism and Zionism, and how the knowledge they acquired informed the PLO's relationship to Israel.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.7.2024
• Zusatzinfo: 8 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: American Council for Judaism • Anis Sayegh • Antisemitism • Arab-Israel conflict • Arab League • archives • Ass’ad Razzouk • Beirut • Christianity • city of beginnings • creation of israel • Cynthia Ozick • Edward Said • enemy studies • European Imperialism • Fayes Sayegh • Gender equality • Hebrew university • IDF • Institute for Palestine Studies • Islam • Israel • Israel Studies • Jewish Studies • Jiryis • Jonathan Marc Gribetz • Judaism • knowing the enemy • Lebanon • Middle East • Nationalism • Palestine • Palestine Israel conflict • Palestine Liberation Organization • Palestine studies • PLO Research Center • preventing Palestine • prisoner exchange • Racism • Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO's Research on Judaism and Israel • Religion • Robyn Creswell • Seth Anziska • State of Israel • Talmud • Tel Aviv • the Palestine question • Think Tank • Yasser Arafat • Zionism • Zionism and Palestinian Nationalism • Zionist Colonialism in Palestine
• ISBN-10: 0-691-25563-6 / 0691255636
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-25563-7 / 9780691255637