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Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine »

Book cover image of Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine by Joel Kovel

Authors: Joel Kovel
ISBN-13: 9780745325699, ISBN-10: 0745325696
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Pluto Press
Date Published: February 2007
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Joel Kovel

Joel Kovel has served as a professor in Psychiatry, Anthropology, Political Science, Social Studies and Communications. He is currently editor-in-chief of Capitalism Nature Socialism (http://www.cnsjournal.org/). Kovel has developed his distinctive approach, which draws on both psychoanalysis and Marxism, across a wide range of publications. His ten books include The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World? (2002), White Racism: A Psychohistory (1970) and Red Hunting in the Promised Land: Anticommunism and the Making of America (1994). Kovel is also a political activist and a media commentator.

Book Synopsis

A sensitive and insightful critique of the contradictions of Zionism.

Table of Contents

Prologue Part One COMING TO ZION

1. A People Apart

2. The Unnatural History of a Bad Idea

3. The Spectre of Shoah Part Two THE JEWISH STATE

4. The Only Democracy in the Middle East

5. Facts on the Ground

6. Partners in Zion

7. Bad Conscience and State Racism

8. Slouching Toward Jerusalem Part Three ZIONISM OVERCOME

9. Beyond the Two-State Solution

10. Palesrael: A Secular and Universal Democracy for Israel/Palestine Bibliography Index

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