The Challenge of Post-Zionism: Alternatives to Israeli Fundamentalist Politics

Review “The emergence of post-Zionist scholarship and -- as yet small -- sector of opinion is one of the most welcome developments of recent years.” ―Perry Anderson, New Left Review, 2001 Product Description As an antidote the growing Israeli fundamentalism, in recent years a lively debate has developed in the Israeli media, intellectual circles and academia about the defining characteristics of Israel and the future. The argument, known as Post-Zionism, challenges some of the fundamental myths surrounding the early history and contemporary identity of the Israeli State.This volume presents this emerging debate. Its contributors include some of its main protagonists, Israeli citizens of Jewish and Palestinian background, including A'sad Ghanem, Uri Ram and Ilan Pappe. They explore Post-Zionism's meanings, ambiguities and prospects.The significance of this volume goes beyond Israel's own emerging post-colonial identity and contains implications for theories of the post-colonial state generally. About the Author Dr Ephraim Nimni is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.He was born in Argentina and has studied and worked in Israel and the U.K. His current research interests cover ethnicity and theories of nationalism, multiculturalism, theories of the state, ideology, post-structuralism and discourse analysis, Israel and Palestine, the European Union, contemporary Europe, Argentina, and international relations. He serves on the international board of the journals Nations and Nationalism (Cambridge) and Politikon (Carfax). He has been a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, a British Academy Visiting Fellow, and a Fellow of the European Institute at the London School of Economics. He has previously taught at Keele, Woolwich, and Flinders Universities.Pnina Werbner is professor emerita in social anthropology at Keele University. She is an urban anthropologist who has studied Muslim South Asians in Britain and Pakistan and, more recently, the women's movement and the Manual Workers Union in Botswana.Richard Werbner is emeritus professor of African anthropology at the University of Manchester. Among his books are Tears of the Dead (1991) and Postcolonial Subjectivities in Africa (Zed 2002).