Israel: A Colonial-Settler State? [Paperback]

Maxime Rodinson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 1973

Examines the historical roots of the Zionist movement and how the State of Israel was formed as a colonial-settler state dispossessing the Palestinian people.

Index, annotation, maps.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Intensely controversial essay.... This is densely factual writing illuminated by a blunt honesty." ---- Publishers Weekly

"Places the history of Zionism and Israel in the perspective of European expansion and colonialism in the Third World and upholds the view, accepted by most Arabs, that Israel is indeed a `colonial-settler state' imposed by force on an unwilling Palestinian population.... [P]rovides abundant documentation.... Recommended generally for libraries with Middle East collections." ---- Choice

Product Details

• Paperback: 114 pages
• Publisher: Pathfinder Press; 1st edition (June 1, 1973)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0873488660
• ISBN-13: 978-0873488662
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,254,202 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Prescient!, January 24, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Israel, a Colonial-Settler State? (Paperback)

How could Rodinson have predicted with uncanny accuracy what Israeli revisionist historians have "discovered" only recently? He was blind to prejudice and cant. He examined the facts, pored over historical details, and came out with 90 pages of clear-headed prose. Before the West Bank and Gaza had been occupied in June 1967, Rodinson could see the difficult position Israelis were in, as colonialists. Fascinating and worth every penny.

13 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A study of Zionist colonization and how Israel was formed, December 26, 1999

By 

Johan Nilsson (Stockholm, Sweden) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Israel, a Colonial-Settler State? (Paperback)

Examining the Zionist colonization of Palestine, Maxime Rodinson explains that Israel's formation was part of the pattern of 19th and 20th century colonial conquest. The Zionist movement received active support from the major imperialist powers and-like other colonialist movements-employed a nationally exclusive, racist ideology to justify the subjugation of native farmers and workers.

Rodinson refutes the rationalizations used by supporters of Zionism-from "biblical right" to the portrayal of Zionism as a national movement founded on socialist principles. (from the back cover)

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The clear truth by a world-renown scholar, September 27, 2002

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Tony Thomas (SUNNY ISLES BEACH, FL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Israel: A Colonial-Settler State? (Paperback)

Maxime Rodinson was one of the world's great scholars of the Arab East, of Islam (his master work was Islam and Capital),and simultaneously a relentless fighter against anti-Semitism. This short clear book he wrote nearly 30 years ago still stands up, fact for fact, every page of history alive today. The history of Zionism is not one of struggle against the real enemies of the Jewish people, but one to despoil the Arabs of Palestine, in the same reactionary racist kind of colonialism that has been defeated in Israel's now dead ally Apartheid South Africa and white-settler Rhodesia. Here are the facts, told clearly, by a man who knew.

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