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Israel's Dead Soul Paperback – March 25, 2011

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176 pages
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Temple University Press
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March 25, 2011
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5.5 x 0.7 x 8.25 inches
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1439906386
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Temple University Press (March 25, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1439906386
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1439906385
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.25 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,591,607 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,145 in Nationalism (Books)
- #1,159 in Jewish Social Studies
- #2,077 in Israel & Palestine History (Books)

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I'm currently the Edward W. Said Chair of American Studies at the American University of Beirut. My latest book is Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom. I tweet here: @stevesalaita
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Michael Smith

... many exceptionalist claims made by Israel fans for their favorite special state

Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2015

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A first-rate dissection of one of the many exceptionalist claims made by Israel fans for their favorite special state.

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Anon

I appreciated his skewering of phony "public intellectuals" on the left - like Cornel West

Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2014

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Hysterical in its implications and its thoughtful questioning of liberal humanism, this book is sure to make many people unhappy. But Salita's logic is inexorable and impossible to counter. I appreciated his skewering of phony "public intellectuals" on the left - like Cornel West. It's pretty much a "must-read" on the subject.

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Francis de Sales

Intelligent, Eloquent, and Very Informative

Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2014

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An entity that starts its life through ethnic cleansing and disposition is a country with no soul because it has been on life support since it was born. When I was 14 I remember watching 'Shoah' on Israeli TV. It was a transformative experience for me as a Palestinian. It helped me understand why Jews needed refuge. The fact that they were being massacred in the millions, while the world watched was indeed a horrible thing. However, this introduced a new puzzle; how can a people who were once subjected (by a nationalist movement based on the domination of one race) to one of the most horrible travesties committed by man in modern history, how can these people turn around and commit to establishing a nation that ethnically cleanses another people, dispossessing almost a million people of their property and rendering them homeless refugees in foreign lands? Why did the Zionist movement commit itself to such a project, and it continues to commit itself to such a project after 65 years.

This book answers some of these questions. He brilliantly addresses the question of Jewish identity (another great book to read about this subject is The Wandering Who by Gilad Atzmon); the Anti-Defamation league--answering a very legitimate question about whether the ADL is a hate group; what it is like to be an Arab in modern Israel; finally, he addresses the colonialist narrative in many Israeli movies which actually fails to acknowledge the true nature of the conflict--the Palestinian fight for freedom from an oppressive, terroristic entity that has managed, for over 65 years, to get away with ethnic cleansing without much accountability from the international community.

This book is a great intellectual read. The arguments are intelligent, eloquent, and supported by well-organized analysis and facts. A must read.

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Manal Fakhoury

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2014

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Thank you for your thoughtful insight.

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Jack

Israeli Atrocities Exposed!!

Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2015

The truth hurts the fanatical defenders of Apartheid Israel. Too bad! And for your information, Dr. Salaita won his lawsuit against the university. The Zionist fanatic that fired him was, in turn, FIRED for her hateful racism and blind support of the Israeli massacre in Gaza! Things are definitely changing for the better. Organizations like BDS and JVP are exposing the terrorist government of Israel!

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It's unbelievable that a book this bad could be written

Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2016

It's unbelievable that a book this bad could be written, let alone published. If a historic claim to Israel/Palestine is part of what it has meant to be Jewish for over 2000 years (just look at Jewish daily prayers), there is no way this book is anything but antisemetic.

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Benzion

A Marvelous Work!

Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2014

The ingenuity of Salaita's _Israel's Dead Soul_ is that, in only 175 pages, he adeptly grafts new forms of anti-Semitism upon old favorites like explaining that the presence of the Jews upsets the social and ethnic cohesion of nation-states, suggesting that Jewish individuals and ideologies have corrupted a particular form of pure Judaism (a nineteenth-century classic), and the time-honored tradition of blaming Jews for the increase in anti-Semitism. Salaita has taken these established tropes and brilliantly repackaged them for the contemporary scholarly audience concerned about the rise of the panoptical Zionist Entity and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel's Dead Soul boldly suggests that Jews should never have purchased land in Mandatory Palestine, citing the variety of ways that the non-Jewish inhabitants of the land made it clear that more Jews were unwelcome there; Salaita moves on to decry the presence of Israeli flags at Virginia Tech's multiculturalism festival, highlighting the insensitivity of suggesting that the Jewish state exists. Finally, Salaita suggests a way for the modern scholar to take action: though it seems an extreme measure to those of us who value multiculturalism and academic freedom, we must band together to boycott Israeli scholars and universities, and we must highlight the extraordinary inhumanity of Israel and its supporters at every turn. Israel's Dead Soul is a must read for those who believe that the Jews are, in the words of Larry David, a bit much!

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Jezzie

Looks very well-written & informative

Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2014

After using the 'look inside' feature, I've decided to order this book. I think it's interesting that all of the customer reviews designated as a 'verified purchase' gave this book 5 stars, while not a single one of the more numerous 1 star reviews was from someone who could be verified as actually purchasing (or reading) the book. Of course, that could just be an odd coincidence. Or maybe not.

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Deconstructing liberal apologists for Israel

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 28, 2021

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This slim volume addresses that nebulous concept, beloved of left Zionists, known as Israel’s “soul”. The Israeli novelist David Grossman, for example, has typically spoken of “the agonized Israeli soul” which is “ardent about divesting itself of the burden of constant animosity.”

Steven Salaita proceeds to deconstruct what basically amounts to the moral void at the heart of a liberalism which tries to attach a conscience to the Zionist state and thereby render it humane. Or as he bluntly puts it: “Nobody has ever mourned the condition of Israel’s soul without being deeply attached to Israel as an ethnocentric state.” Normalising Israel involves a sleight of hand which claims Israel for enlightenment and modernity, masking the country’s core reality as a violent colonising apartheid state.

This book amounts to five essays which address different aspects of Salaita’s argument. The first three address specifically American aspects of Zionist ideology. The opening essay examines how on American campuses events like “Jewish Awareness Month” are used to promote Israel as a central aspect of Jewish identity. When Israel is criticised the Holocaust and charges of anti-Semitism are promptly invoked. The influential campus organisation Hillel has a budget of $40 million to propagandise for Israel. That it effectively does this under the guise of multiculturalism, Salaita argues, indicates the limitations and inadequacies of that concept. Corporations and American universities both claim to embrace multiculturalism but in reality neither is concerned with racism or injustice.

The second essay asks “Is the Anti-Defamation League a Hate Group?” and deconstructs its pious credentials in searing detail. A third essay argues that the radicalism of the prominent black American philosopher Cornel West and of the black writer and academic Michael Eric Dyson is hollow and duplicitous. Both men are apologists for Israel, Salaita argues, taking refuge in equivocation, vagueness and circumvention. Each carefully avoids addressing the core reality of Zionism as a violent, racist colonising ideology. Salaita concludes that “The silence in liberal American discourses around Palestinian suffering is nearly absolute.”

The fourth essay is a detailed examination of “pinkwashing”, taking apart the argument that Israel is a friendly haven for gays and a shining example of tolerance in the face of Arab prejudice. Along the way Salaita deconstructs the humour of devoted Israel-apologist Sacha Baron Cohen.

The final essay critiques three movies - West Bank Story (a 2005 Oscar winner), Spielberg’s Munich (2005) and Waltz with Bashir (2008). Salaita analyses all three in some detail, finding the first “didactic and subtly propagandistic, at times borderline racist”, arguing that Spielberg “affirms the colonizer’s violence as imperative and just”, while the third movie, though the best of the three, whitewashes Israel’s role in the Sabra and Shatila massacre, lacks empathy for Israel’s victims and evokes “colonialist fantasy”.

Summaries can’t do justice to Salaita’s sophisticated analysis, which is free of academic jargon and scholarship at its finest. It is a bitter irony that a book as critically alert and intelligent as this should have been one of the factors in Salaita subsequently being targeted by the American Israel lobby and losing his employment as an academic.

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