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In this essay, Said aims to address a distinct lack of discussion on Zionism (i.e., Jewish nationalism, the official ideology of Israel) from the perspective of the Palestinian Arabs. [1] Though it was compiled decades ago, it has remained relevant in academic discourse due to the ongoing failure of the Israeli–Palestinian peace process . [ 3 ]
Edward Said and his sister, Rosemarie Said dressed in traditional Arab clothing, 1940 Said was born on 1 November 1935 [16] into a family of Palestinian Christians in the city of Jerusalem, at the time under the British Mandate for Palestine. [17]
Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question is a collection of essays, co-edited by Palestinian scholar and advocate Edward Said and journalist and author Christopher Hitchens, published by Verso Books in 1988.
Edward Said, who also contributed the new foreword, said, "Chomsky's major claim is that Israel and the United States – especially the latter – are rejectionists opposed to peace, whereas the Arabs, including the PLO, for years have been trying to accommodate themselves to the reality of Israel."
Edward Said, a Palestinian American professor and activist, asserted that it was Golda Meir's "most celebrated remark". [4] Al Jazeera journalist Alasdair Soussi wrote that "Meir's jingoistic comments concerning Palestinians remain one of her defining – and most damning – legacies."
Since Edward Said's death in 2003, several institutions have instituted annual lecture series in his memory, including Columbia University, [1] University of Warwick, Princeton University, University of Adelaide, [2] The American University in Cairo, London Review of Books, the Barenboim-Said Akademie and Palestine Center, with such notables speaking as Daniel Barenboim, Noam Chomsky, Robert ...
Edward Said in an interview said, "Israel and the Western governments want Arafat to repress certain elements of his society. They want him to be a dictator. They want him to be a dictator. The mechanism of the peace accord makes this perfectly clear.
In a book review for The Village Voice, Edward Said criticized what he saw as a naive, arrogant, and orientalist account of the Israel–Palestine conflict. [3]