Israel category: 987 books
by Cary Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
How should we understand the international debate about the future of Israel and the Palestinians? Can justice be achieved in the Middle East? Until now, there was no single place for people to go to find detailed scholarly essays analyzing proposals to boycott Israel and the Boycott, Divestment, and...
Palestine and Israel
A Challenge to Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The dispute over Palestine between the Palestinian Arabs and the Israelis is one of the most volatile and intractable conflicts in the world today. Palestine and Israel examines the history of this battle from the perspective of international law, and it argues that a long-term solution to the conflict...
Conflict Transformation and the Palestinians
The Dynamics of Peace and Justice under Occupation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This book explores the challenges of transforming the violent conflict between the State of Israel and the Palestinians into just peace.
There are many challenges involved in the bottom-up transformation of the violent structures that sustain the State of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian...
Israel, A Beachhead in the Middle East
From European Colony to US Power Projection Platform
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
Washington has poured billions into Israel's economy and military and, since 1967, Israel has undertaken innumerable operations on Washington's behalf against states that reject US supremacy and economic domination. The self-appointed Jewish state has become a watch-dog capable of sufficiently punishing...
In the Company of Others
The Development of Anthropology in Israel
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
In Israel, anthropologists have customarily worked in their “home”—in the company of the society that they are studying. In the Company of Others: The Development of Anthropology in Israel by Orit Abuhav details the gradual development of the field, which arrived in Israel in the early twentieth...
Tours That Bind
Diaspora, Pilgrimage, and Israeli Birthright Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Since 1999 hundreds of thousands of young American Jews have visited Israel on an all-expense-paid 10-day pilgrimage-tour known as Birthright Israel. The most elaborate of the state-supported homeland tours that are cropping up all over the world, this tour seeks to foster in the American Jewish diaspora...
Transnational Identities
Women, Art, and Migration in Contemporary Israel
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Translated originally from Hebrew, Transnational Identities: Women, Art, and Migration in Contemporary Israel offers a critical discussion of women immigrants in Israel through an analysis of works by artists who immigrated to the country beginning in the 1990s. Though numerous aspects of the issue...
Security and Defensive Democracy in Israel
A Critical Approach to Political Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
This book scrutinises how political actors in the Israeli parliament (the Knesset) have articulated the security-democracy nexus in their discourses.
Security crises expose political leaders to an uncomfortable dilemma: guaranteeing the safety of citizens while at the same time preserving...
Australia & Israel
A Diasporic, Cultural and Political Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Australia and the State of Israel have maintained a cordial if at times ambiguous relationship. The two countries are geographically isolated: strategic, economic, and cultural interests lie increasingly with Asia for one, and with the United States and the European Union for the other. But for all...
Rereading Israel
The Spirit of the Matter
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Setting aside vitriolic debates and worn postures, Rereading Israel refreshes current conversations about Israel, opening Jewish sources to interpret Israel in critical, innovative, and inspiring ways. The book presents readers with an opportunity to engage ethically, intellectually, and emotionally,...
Moon Israel & the West Bank
With Petra
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2019
Ancient stories meet modern cities in this deeply significant region where the past is always present. Take the trip of a lifetime with Moon Israel & the West Bank. Inside you'll find:
Flexible itineraries including a week in Jerusalem, 3 days in Tel Aviv, and a month exploring the region plus...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this study examines the factors associated with effective social countermobilization against violent extremism. Understanding such factors can help a state develop a sponsored countermovement to protect its national interests...
Israel in the Making
Stickers, Stitches, and Other Critical Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
The brilliant kaleidoscope of everyday creativity in Israel is thrown into relief in this study, which teases out the abiding national tensions and contradictions at work in the expressive acts of ordinary people. Hagar Salamon examines creativity in Israel’s public sphere through the lively discourse...
by Berlitz
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
**Berlitz Pocket Guides: iconic style, a bestselling brand, this is the quintessential pocket-sized travel guide to Israel **
Plan your trip, plan perfect days and discover how to get around - this pocket-sized guide is a convenient, quick-reference companion to discovering what to do and...