Israel's Dead Soul

Steven Salaita is Associate Professor of English at Virginia Tech. His recent books include The Uncultured Wars, Anti-Arab Racism in the USA, and The Holy Land in Transit.

"Israel's Dead Soul is a densely-packed, sometimes knotty little book, that well repays reading and rereading. Salaita provides us with well-honed tools for diagnosing the errors of organizations and embedded pundits alike, as well as the weapons for combating them." -Electronic Intifada "As unsparing of the liberal multiculturalist embrace of Zionism as it is of the right-wing defense of Israeli violence, Salaita's stinging critique demonstrates how both deploy a demonization of Palestinians that normatizes Zionism and absolves it of its colonial violence. Israel's Dead Soul is a must read for scholars of the Middle East, anti-racist activists and all those who care about social justice." -Sunera Thobani, Associate Professor, Centre for Women's and Gender Studies, University of British Columbia

• Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Israel as Cultural Icon: The Vacillating Boundaries of Jewish Identity 2. Is the Anti-Defamation League a Hate Group? 3. Ethnonationalism as an Object of Multicultural Decorum: The Case of Cornel West and Michael Eric Dyson 4. Sexuality, Violence, and Modernity in Israel: The Paradise of Not Being Arab 5. The Heart of Darkness Redux, Again Epilogue A Eulogy to Israel's Dead Soul Notes Index