Reading Herzl in Beirut : the PLO effort to know the enemy / Jonathan Marc Gribetz.
| Author/creator | Gribetz, Jonathan Marc, 1980- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2024] |
| Description | xvi, 387 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | PLO's effort to know the enemy |
| Contents | Why did the PLO need a Research Center? -- The PLO Research Center at Work -- From the Hebrew University to the PLO Research Center -- Zionist Colonialism in Palestine : Zionism and European Imperialism -- The Zionist Idea : Judaism, Christianity, and the Arabic Translation of Zionism -- The Talmud and Zionism : Rejecting Antisemitism in the Name of Palestinian Liberation -- The American Council for Judaism : American Jewish AntiZionism -- The Jewish Woman in Occupied Palestine : The Promise of Gender Equality -- Jews of the Arab Countries : The Question of Racism -- Zionist Terror in the Creation of Israel : On the Necessity of Violence -- The PLO Research Center's Trip to Tel Aviv -- A Global Debate about the PLO Research Center -- Exchanging Prisoners, a Library, and an Archive -- Conclusion: Empathy, Realism, and the Effects of "Knowing the Enemy." |
| Abstract | "An intellectual history of the PLO Research Center and the efforts of PLO intellectuals to study and understand their Zionist enemies"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Abstract | "How the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center informed the PLO's relationship to Zionism and Israel. In September 1982, the Israeli military invaded West Beirut and Israel-allied Lebanese militiamen massacred Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. Meanwhile, Israeli forces also raided the Palestinian Liberation Organization Research Center and trucked its complete library to Israel. Palestinian activists and supporters protested loudly to international organizations and the Western press, claiming that the assault on the Center proved that the Israelis sought to destroy not merely Palestinian militants but Palestinian culture as well. The protests succeeded. In November 1983, Israel returned the library as part of a prisoner exchange. What was in that library? Much of the expansive collection the PLO amassed consisted of books about Judaism, Zionism, and Israel. In Reading Herzl in Beirut, Jonathan Marc Gribetz tells the story of the PLO Research Center from its establishment in 1965 until its ultimate expulsion from Lebanon in 1983. Gribetz explores why the PLO invested in research about the Jews, what its researchers learned about Judaism and Zionism, and how the knowledge they acquired informed the PLO's relationship to Israel"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Gribetz, Jonathan Marc, 1980- Reading Herzl in Beirut Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2024 9780691255637 |
| LCCN | 2023044587 |
| ISBN | 9780691176802 |
| ISBN | 9780691260525 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0691260524 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0691176809 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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