Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question

Author/Contributor(s):	Said, Edward W.; Hitchens, Christopher
Publisher:	Verso
Date:	10/6/2026
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

An essential collection of key essays that looks at the manufacture of Israeli propaganda and how that then spreads into news, academia and political knowledge.

How the historical fate of the Palestinians has been justified by spurious academic attempts to dismiss their claim to a home within the boundaries of historical Palestine and even to deny their very existence. With contributions from Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, Janet L. Abu-Lughod, Noam Chomsky, Norman G. Finkelstein, Rashid Khalidi, Blaming The Victims explore how Israel not only conquered the land but also the battle of ‘ideas, representations, rhetoric, and images’. Chomksy looks at how this then feeds into the American ideological system, while Finkelstein looks at the formation of pseudohistory in order to establish Israeli primacy in the region.