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Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine
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Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine Hardcover - 2007

by Joel Kovel


From the publisher

Joel Kovel argues that the inner contradictions of Zionism have led Israel to a 'state-sponsored racism' fully as incorrigible as that of apartheid South Africa and deserving of the same resolution. Only a path toward a single-state secular democracy can provide the justice essential to healing the wounds of the Middle East. Kovel is well-known writer on the Middle East conflict. This book draws on his detailed knowledge to show that Zionism and democracy are essentially incompatible. He offers a thoughtful account of the emergence and disintegration of Zionism that integrates psychological, political, cultural, economic, and ideological levels. Ultimately, Kovel argues, a two-state solution is essentially hopeless as it concedes too much to the regressive forces of nationalism, wherein lie the roots of continued conflict.

Details

  • Title Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine
  • Author Joel Kovel
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Pluto Press (UK)
  • Date February 15, 2007
  • ISBN 9780745325705 / 074532570X
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.46 x 5.32 x 1 in (21.49 x 13.51 x 2.54 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Zionism, Israel - Politics and government
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007278283
  • Dewey Decimal Code 320.540

About the author

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.