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The False Prophets of Peace: Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine Paperback – November 15, 2011
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PublisherHaymarket Books
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Publication dateNovember 15, 2011
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"The Zionist Left, formerly hegemonic, has declined since 1977 and is now marginalized, while the differences between it and the center and Right have almost disappeared. But the myth of its 'progressive' nature persists among Western liberals. Based on her knowledge as a former insider, and on her familiarity with the relevant material, Tikva Honig-Parnass performs an invaluable service in forensically deconstructing the myth.”
Moshé Machover, author, Israelis and Palestinians: Conflict and Resolution
"These books, [Israelis and Palestinians, and False Prophets of Peace] are important contributions not only for historical perspective but for present-day understanding The fundamental insights of the formative Israeli revolutionary left remain as impressive as ever inspiring in their clarity of vision, even if it’s distressing to see how, if anything, political discourse about Israel and Palestine has regressed as much as advanced in half a century."
David Finkel, Against the Current
"After reading Honig-Parnass’ book, one is left with a clear impression that liberal Zionists are neither Israel’s best’ and nor is their double-speak a simple reflection of hypocrisy. Liberal Zionists were, and remain at the heart of the problem."
Ramzy Baroud, the Palestine Chronicle
"[A]t a time when the hasbarah is working overtime to present Israel as a place where liberal democratic values, individualism and LGBT rights thrive amidst a sea of fundamentalist obscurantism, False prophets of peace is essential reading for winning the debate against those keen to smear solidarity with Palestinian rights as employing double standards and engaging in the demonisation of the only democracy in the Middle East."
Leandros Fischer, the Weekly Worker
Moshé Machover, author, Israelis and Palestinians: Conflict and Resolution
"These books, [Israelis and Palestinians, and False Prophets of Peace] are important contributions not only for historical perspective but for present-day understanding The fundamental insights of the formative Israeli revolutionary left remain as impressive as ever inspiring in their clarity of vision, even if it’s distressing to see how, if anything, political discourse about Israel and Palestine has regressed as much as advanced in half a century."
David Finkel, Against the Current
"After reading Honig-Parnass’ book, one is left with a clear impression that liberal Zionists are neither Israel’s best’ and nor is their double-speak a simple reflection of hypocrisy. Liberal Zionists were, and remain at the heart of the problem."
Ramzy Baroud, the Palestine Chronicle
"[A]t a time when the hasbarah is working overtime to present Israel as a place where liberal democratic values, individualism and LGBT rights thrive amidst a sea of fundamentalist obscurantism, False prophets of peace is essential reading for winning the debate against those keen to smear solidarity with Palestinian rights as employing double standards and engaging in the demonisation of the only democracy in the Middle East."
Leandros Fischer, the Weekly Worker
"The Zionist Left, formerly hegemonic, has declined since 1977 and is now marginalized, while the differences between it and the center and Right have almost disappeared. But the myth of its 'progressive' nature persists among Western liberals. Based on her knowledge as a former insider, and on her familiarity with the relevant material, Tikva Honig-Parnass performs an invaluable service in forensically deconstructing the myth.”
―Moshé Machover, author, Israelis and Palestinians: Conflict and Resolution
"These books, [Israelis and Palestinians, and False Prophets of Peace] are important contributions not only for historical perspective but for present-day understanding … The fundamental insights of the formative Israeli revolutionary left remain as impressive as ever – inspiring in their clarity of vision, even if it’s distressing to see how, if anything, political discourse about Israel and Palestine has regressed as much as advanced in half a century."
―David Finkel, Against the Current
"After reading Honig-Parnass’ book, one is left with a clear impression that liberal Zionists are neither ‘Israel’s best’ and nor is their double-speak a simple reflection of hypocrisy. Liberal Zionists were, and remain at the heart of the problem."
―Ramzy Baroud, the Palestine Chronicle
"[A]t a time when the hasbarah is working overtime to present Israel as a place where liberal democratic values, individualism and LGBT rights thrive amidst a sea of fundamentalist obscurantism, False prophets of peace is essential reading for winning the debate against those keen to smear solidarity with Palestinian rights as employing double standards and engaging in the demonisation of the ‘only democracy in the Middle East."
―Leandros Fischer, the Weekly Worker
―Moshé Machover, author, Israelis and Palestinians: Conflict and Resolution
"These books, [Israelis and Palestinians, and False Prophets of Peace] are important contributions not only for historical perspective but for present-day understanding … The fundamental insights of the formative Israeli revolutionary left remain as impressive as ever – inspiring in their clarity of vision, even if it’s distressing to see how, if anything, political discourse about Israel and Palestine has regressed as much as advanced in half a century."
―David Finkel, Against the Current
"After reading Honig-Parnass’ book, one is left with a clear impression that liberal Zionists are neither ‘Israel’s best’ and nor is their double-speak a simple reflection of hypocrisy. Liberal Zionists were, and remain at the heart of the problem."
―Ramzy Baroud, the Palestine Chronicle
"[A]t a time when the hasbarah is working overtime to present Israel as a place where liberal democratic values, individualism and LGBT rights thrive amidst a sea of fundamentalist obscurantism, False prophets of peace is essential reading for winning the debate against those keen to smear solidarity with Palestinian rights as employing double standards and engaging in the demonisation of the ‘only democracy in the Middle East."
―Leandros Fischer, the Weekly Worker
About the Author
Tikva Honig-Parnass was raised in the Jewish community of pre-state Palestine, fought in the 1948 war and served as the secretary of the then Radical Left Zionist Party of Mapam (The Unified Workers Party) in the Knesset ( 1951-1954). In '60 she definitively broke with Zionism and joined the ranks of the Israeli Socialist Organization, known as "Matzpen". Since then she has played an active role in the movement against the '67 occupation as well as in the struggle for the Palestinian national rights.
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- Publisher : Haymarket Books (November 15, 2011)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 350 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1608461300
- ISBN-13 : 978-1608461301
- Item Weight : 12.9 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.75 x 9 inches
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Excellent book setting forth the argument that the notion of a liberal democracy is incompatible with treating some persons as second-class citizens. Indeed, that freedom and autonomy cannot exist for Palestinians within a Jewish-only State of Israel. While not necessarily a book for those relatively new to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it serves as an essential "next-step" for those who've already read several introductory text on the subject.
Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2011
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This book discusses the various aspects of Liberal Zionism within Israel and how they are an enabler of vast atrocities committed against the Palestinians. She (I am assuming it is a she considering Tikva is a female Israeli name) discusses Liberal Zionism's role in various aspects of Israeli life. The book has great research and analysis, using mostly linguistics, post-colonial theory, and orientalism to tear about the notion that liberal Zionism is the "univeralistic human rights loving ideology" is perpetuates itself to be. The book at many points reads like long editorials, which I do not particularly like, but to each his own. A lot of scrabbling around occurs as well, but anyone who is interested in the hypocrisy of liberal Zionism should read this book, she does a great job analyzing it.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2013
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Honig-Parnas provides us with an insightful and rarely articulated analysis of Israel and "what's ailing it". A must-read for all who wish to see a diminution of war.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2012
This book explores the Israeli Zionist Left's discourse regarding the Jewish and democratic" State of Israel and all its ramifications that comes with it. Such undertaking was overdue because it exposes Zionist left-wing intellectuals as hypocrites. It was not the Israeli right that did the dirty" work of legitimatizing colonization, oppression, expulsion, discrimination and dispossession of the original owners of the land, the Palestinians, but left-wing liberal" intellectuals, especially those of the Zionist Labor movement. They provided not only the political, legal and military establishment with ideological legitimacy but also with a scientific" one. Through their intellectual twists and turns, they laid the foundations for governmental policies that have made possible Zionist colonialism in the Apartheid settler state of Israel" (193), writes Tikva Honig-Parnass in her unique book.
"False Prophets of Peace" unearths the truth and the central role played by the Israeli left in laying the foundation of the colonial settler project and its campaign of dispossession. U. S. and European liberal opinion still clings to a myth of "progressive" Israeli Zionist intellectuals. The author concentrates on the discourse of these elite intellectuals and academic circles that have nourished the myth of the Zionist Left. She analyses their support for an exclusivist Jewish state that acts as the central Zionist premise guiding Israel`s official ideology, and their attempts to reconcile that with the definition of Israel as a democracy.
In nine chapters the author challenges every premise of the Zionist Left concerning its defense of Israel as a "Jewish and democratic" state and the justifications given for treating Israeli Palestinians as second-class citizens. The dividing line between the non-Zionist critical Israeli Left and the Zionist Left are represented by the historical events of 1948 and 1967. The representatives of the non-Zionist Israeli Left, which is a tiny minority, regard the injustices committed in 1948 as the starting point of the conflict between Jews and Arabs ("Israel was born in sin"), whereas the Zionist Left sees the cause of the conflict in the June-war of 1967 and the ensuing occupation. Zionist Leftists dismiss also the notion of Israel as a "colonial settler state" and its maintenance as a Western hegemonic colonial project. (24)
The Zionist Left does everything it can to prove to Western liberals that Israel as a "Jewish state" can be both "Jewish" and "democratic". For any Western democrat this appears like trying to square the circle but apparently not for Zionists. According to the author, the Zionist Left is haunted by a "demographic ghost". (42)
For Western liberal intellectuals, pundits and their media multiplicators, Israel is perceived as an open, liberal Western outpost to a "barbaric" environment, echoing how Theodor Herzl, the founding-father of Zionism used to present his Zionist enterprise to Western imperialist politicians. Not so much has changed since then: Israel is presented as "a villa in the jungle" (Ehud Barak). Only very few Israeli intellectuals see Israel as a "colonial settler state" and "the Zionist movement as an ongoing colonial project" (89), like the author does.
The author mentions specifically the Zionist Left understanding of "peace". The Zionist Left was thrilled by the so-called Oslo Peace Process, although even outside observers realized that this kind of "peace process" would not lead to peace but rather to collaboration of the colonized elite with the colonizer.
This book compiles for the first time an overall criticism of the worldview of the Zionist Left in Israel, which is perceived in the West "as one of us". Tikva Honig-Parnass has accomplished a feat by presenting to the outside world an inner Israeli debate on the "Jewish and democratic" setup of the State of Israel and its discrimination of its own non-Jewish inhabitants. Western democrats would certainly be outraged to discover the undemocratic worldview of the Israeli Zionist Left. This outstanding book will, hopefully, find many readers. Intellectually, the book is a real treat.
Dr. Ludwig Watzal lives as a journalist in Bonn, Germany.
"False Prophets of Peace" unearths the truth and the central role played by the Israeli left in laying the foundation of the colonial settler project and its campaign of dispossession. U. S. and European liberal opinion still clings to a myth of "progressive" Israeli Zionist intellectuals. The author concentrates on the discourse of these elite intellectuals and academic circles that have nourished the myth of the Zionist Left. She analyses their support for an exclusivist Jewish state that acts as the central Zionist premise guiding Israel`s official ideology, and their attempts to reconcile that with the definition of Israel as a democracy.
In nine chapters the author challenges every premise of the Zionist Left concerning its defense of Israel as a "Jewish and democratic" state and the justifications given for treating Israeli Palestinians as second-class citizens. The dividing line between the non-Zionist critical Israeli Left and the Zionist Left are represented by the historical events of 1948 and 1967. The representatives of the non-Zionist Israeli Left, which is a tiny minority, regard the injustices committed in 1948 as the starting point of the conflict between Jews and Arabs ("Israel was born in sin"), whereas the Zionist Left sees the cause of the conflict in the June-war of 1967 and the ensuing occupation. Zionist Leftists dismiss also the notion of Israel as a "colonial settler state" and its maintenance as a Western hegemonic colonial project. (24)
The Zionist Left does everything it can to prove to Western liberals that Israel as a "Jewish state" can be both "Jewish" and "democratic". For any Western democrat this appears like trying to square the circle but apparently not for Zionists. According to the author, the Zionist Left is haunted by a "demographic ghost". (42)
For Western liberal intellectuals, pundits and their media multiplicators, Israel is perceived as an open, liberal Western outpost to a "barbaric" environment, echoing how Theodor Herzl, the founding-father of Zionism used to present his Zionist enterprise to Western imperialist politicians. Not so much has changed since then: Israel is presented as "a villa in the jungle" (Ehud Barak). Only very few Israeli intellectuals see Israel as a "colonial settler state" and "the Zionist movement as an ongoing colonial project" (89), like the author does.
The author mentions specifically the Zionist Left understanding of "peace". The Zionist Left was thrilled by the so-called Oslo Peace Process, although even outside observers realized that this kind of "peace process" would not lead to peace but rather to collaboration of the colonized elite with the colonizer.
This book compiles for the first time an overall criticism of the worldview of the Zionist Left in Israel, which is perceived in the West "as one of us". Tikva Honig-Parnass has accomplished a feat by presenting to the outside world an inner Israeli debate on the "Jewish and democratic" setup of the State of Israel and its discrimination of its own non-Jewish inhabitants. Western democrats would certainly be outraged to discover the undemocratic worldview of the Israeli Zionist Left. This outstanding book will, hopefully, find many readers. Intellectually, the book is a real treat.
Dr. Ludwig Watzal lives as a journalist in Bonn, Germany.
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