Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question

Collection of essays edited by Edward W. Said and Christopher Hitchens rebutts scholarship and commentary attributing Palestinian dispossession to Palestinian behavior or cultural characteristics rather than to Zionist colonization and the Nakba. Contributors examine the political uses of orientalism in scholarship about Palestinians, the ideological functions of Israeli historical revisionism, and the misrepresentation of Palestinian history in Western media and academia. Essential for researchers working on the politics of knowledge production about Palestine, the role of orientalism in scholarship, and the historiography of Palestinian dispossession, particularly useful for anyone studying how Palestinian history has been misrepresented in Western academia and media.