Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial

by Saree Makdisi

Book Overview

How denial sustains the liberal imagination of a progressive and democratic Israel.

The question that this book aims to answer might seem simple: how can a violent project of dispossession and discrimination be imagined, felt, and profoundly believed in as though it were the exact opposite--an embodiment of sustainability, multicultural tolerance, and democratic idealism? Despite well-documented evidence of racism and human rights abuse,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520409698
• ISBN13: 9780520409699
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"