Shlomo Sand’s intellectual bestseller is now available in an affordable paperback edition. Priced at US$16.95 and £9.99, this edition includes an all-new afterword in which Professor Sand responds to critics.
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Leon T. Hadar reviews Sand’s bestseller in Middle East Policy:
“Countering official Zionist historiography, Sand questions whether the Jewish People ever existed as a national group with a common origin in the Land of Israel/Palestine. He concludes that the Jews should be seen as a religious community comprising a mishmash of individuals and groups that had converted to the ancient monotheistic religion but do not have any historical right to establish an independent Jewish state in the Holy Land. In short, the Jewish People, according to Sand, are not really a “people” in the sense of having a common ethnic origin and national heritage. They certainly do not have a political claim over the territory that today constitutes Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, including Jerusalem.”
Read the full review here.
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