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, Israel...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520346254
• ISBN13: 9780520346253
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"