Summary
Israeli historian (1958–) whose definition of ‘negation of exile’ and orientalist reading of Zionist discourse Amar-Dahl relies on (Zionist Israel and the Question of Palestine, PDF p.14, 28-29).
Details
- ‘Negation of exile’ deems settlement and sovereignty in Palestine the ‘return’ to a home imagined as empty before ‘redemption’, with exilic culture described in orientalist terms (2005: 167, PDF p.14).
- Zionist thought did not challenge the Europe/Orient dichotomy but sought assimilation into the West; the ‘new Jew’ was to be a new European, not an oriental (2005: 166, PDF p.29).
- On Peres (1996): separating the two histories creates a ‘distorted historical picture’ (2000: 187, PDF p.37).
Related pages
Zionist Israel and the Question of Palestine, Negation of the Diaspora, Orientalism