Overview
How is the Israel/Palestine question narrated in Western academia? What ideas dominate the key textbooks on the subject and what is presented as 'truth'? This book answers these critical questions. It is widely known that Western support of Israel played a vital role in the realization of Zionist objectives in Palestine. But academic support of Israel in the West has been a neglected issue, with Western academic knowledge being regarded as impartial and objective. This book reveals that this understanding of Western academic knowledge is wrong when it comes to the Israel/Palestine question. Rather, knowledge has been biased, misleading, and dogmatic and Western college students are subscribing to ‘factual histories’ based on theories at best, if not fiction. The book is the first empirical investigation able to document this partial reporting of history. Seyed Hadi Borhani examines the most popular college-level textbooks used to teach the history of the Israel/Palestine in Western universities, combining ‘textbook analysis’ (to determine how the dominant academic texts report the question) and a ‘context analysis’ (to identify who 'manufactures' the dominant knowledge). The book provides a historical map of how the Israel-Palestine conflict is understood in the West. The book can be used as a critique for students and professors to use alongside textbooks and is a vital and much-needed intervention into the state of affairs in Western academia.
Full Product Details
Author: Seyed Hadi Borhani (University of Tehran, Iran)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Imprint: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Volume: 1
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9781350233119
ISBN 10: 1350233110
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 21 September 2023
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
This book illuminates the Israeli success over the decades in manipulating the devastating story of how denials of Palestinian basic rights was partly accomplished by warping student minds forced to learn about the conflict through slanted textbooks validating the Zionist narrative. Such textbook propaganda is not a trivial sideshow as struggles of this kind are usually decided on the symbolic battlefields of the mind. Borhani's book compels the reader to grasp why distorted storytelling functions as an insidious weapon of oppressors. --Richard Falk, Princeton University, USA
Author Information
Seyed Hadi Borhani is Assistant Professor at the University of Tehran, Iran. He has published in the Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies and completed his PhD at the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter, UK.
