{"product_id":"blaming-the-victims","title":"Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRenowned writers on the Palestine–Israel conflict confront the deceitful manipulations of mass media and mainstream scholarship\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince the Nakba in 1948, Israel has consistently denied Palestinians the most basic democratic rights. Originally published in 1988, \u003ci\u003eBlaming the Victims\u003c\/i\u003e shows how the cruel fate of this beleaguered people has been justified by spurious scholarship and biased journalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNearly forty years on,\u003ci\u003e Blaming the Victims\u003c\/i\u003e remains devastatingly relevant and instructive for anyone committed to Palestinian liberation. With the incredible rise of a global Palestine solidarity movement since 2023, the systems of censorship that have long obstructed honest writing about Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians are finally beginning to collapse. As Edward W. Said writes in the introduction, \"A huge amount of work obviously remains to be done … The thing to be remembered, however, is that nothing – and certainly not a colonial “fact” – is irreversible.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith contributions from leading pro-Palestine voices, including Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, Noam Chomsky, Norman G. Finkelstein, and Rashid Khalidi, \u003ci\u003eBlaming the Victims\u003c\/i\u003e explores how Israel not only conquered the land but also the treacherous territory of ‘ideas, representations, rhetoric, and images’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The wide-ranging scope and demythologising structure of Blaming the Victims makes it especially relevant at the present time when the actions of the state of Israel seem to contradict received opinion as to its nature. The book provides a great quantity of information, analyses it convincingly and, through an impressive body of notes on primary and secondary literature, points the reader in the direction of further information.\" \u003cem\u003eMiddle East International\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"These forcefully argued treatises will be as enlightening as they are disturbing for anyone with an interest in Middle East politics.\" \u003cem\u003eALA Booklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003eDeserves a wide readership.\" Charles Glass, \u003cem\u003eSpectator\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In addition to its hard-hitting essays on terrorism and the 1948 refugees, Blaming the Victims takes on other sacred cows of the Middle East.\" David Wemple, \u003cem\u003eWashington Report on Middle East Affairs\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45000252588125,"sku":"9781836743590","price":33.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/blamingthevictims_verso2026.jpg?v=1791307646","url":"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/fr\/products\/blaming-the-victims","provider":"Leftwingbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}