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Post-Zionism, Post-Holocaust, three essays on denial, forgetting, and the delegitimation of Israel, Elhanan Yakira ; translated by Michael Swirsky

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Label

Post-Zionism, Post-Holocaust, three essays on denial, forgetting, and the delegitimation of Israel, Elhanan Yakira ; translated by Michael Swirsky

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Post-Zionism, Post-Holocaust

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

593240167

Responsibility statement

Elhanan Yakira ; translated by Michael Swirsky

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

three essays on denial, forgetting, and the delegitimation of Israel

Summary

This book contains three independent essays, available in English for the first time, as well as a post-scriptum written for the English edition. The common theme of the three essays is the uses and abuses of the Holocaust as an ideological arm in the anti-Zionist campaigns. The first essay examines the French group of left-wing Holocaust deniers. The second essay deals with a number of Israeli academics and intellectuals, the so-called post-Zionists, and tries to follow their use of the Holocaust in their different attempts to demonize and delegitimize Israel. The third deals with Hannah Arendt and her relations with Zionism and the State of Israel as reflected in her general work and in Eichmann in Jerusalem; the views that she formulates are used systematically and extensively by anti- and post-Zionists. Yakira argues that each of these is a particular expression of an outrage: anti-Zionism and a wholesale delegitimation of Israel.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Holocaust denial and the Left -- The Holocaust and the opprobrium -- On the political and the antipolitical: Hannah Arendt, Eichmann, and Israel -- Postscript: 1967 or 1948?

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