The Arabs and the Holocaust
Gilbert Achcar
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / 20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945)
Beschreibung
The Arab–Israeli conflict goes far beyond the wars waged on Middle Eastern battlefields. There is also a war of narratives revolving around the two defining traumas of the conflict: the Holocaust and the Nakba. One side is charged with Holocaust denial, the other with exploiting a tragedy while denying the tragedies of others. In this path-breaking book, eminent political scientist Gilbert Achcar explores these conflicting narratives and considers their role in today's Middle East dispute. He analyses the various Arab responses to the Holocaust, from the earliest intimations of the genocide, through the creation of Israel and the occupation of Palestine, and up to our own time, critically assessing the political and historical context for these responses. Achcar offers a unique ideological mapping of the Arab world, in the process defusing and international propaganda war that has become a major stumbling block in the path of Arab–Western understanding.
Kundenbewertungen
Holocaust, Abdul -Aziz, Jews, Michel Warchawski, Rashid Rida, Arabs, Yehoshafat Harkabi, Mufti of Jerusalem, Arab Nationalism, Tom Segev, Emir Shakib Arslan, Benny Morris, Nakba, Edward Said, Shoah, World War II, Marxism, Zionism, Baath party, Esther Webman, Communists, Gamal Abdel-Nasser, Jewish Genocide, Intellectual History, Israel, Muslim Brotherhood, Hajj Muhammad Amin al-Husseini, Syria, Nazism, David Ben Gurion, Hajj Amin al Husseini, Palestine, Gilbert Achcar, Iran, Hamas, Anti-Semitism