Textbooks on Israel-Palestine : the politics of education and knowledge in the West / Seyed Hadi Borhani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Borhani, Seyed Hadi, author.

Series:

Unsettling Colonialism.

Unsettling Colonialism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arab-Israeli conflict--Study and teaching--Western countries.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Education--Political aspects--Western countries.

Education.

Education--Western countries--Textbooks.

Textbook bias--Western countries.

Textbook bias.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022

Place of Publication:

London [England] : I.B. Tauris, 2022.

Summary:

"How is the Israel/Palestine question narrated in Western academia? What ideas dominate the key textbooks on the subject and what is presented as 'truth'? This book answers these critical questions. It is widely known that Western support of Israel played a vital role in the realization of Zionist objectives in Palestine. But academic support of Israel in the West has been a neglected issue, with Western academic knowledge being regarded as impartial and objective. This book reveals that this understanding of Western academic knowledge is wrong when it comes to the Israel/Palestine question. Rather, knowledge has been biased, misleading, and dogmatic and Western college students are subscribing to 'factual histories' based on theories at best, if not fiction. The book is the first empirical investigation able to document this partial reporting of history. Seyed Hadi Borhani examines the most popular college-level textbooks used to teach the history of the Israel/Palestine in Western universities, combining 'textbook analysis' (to determine how the dominant academic texts report the question) and a 'context analysis' (to identify who 'manufactures' the dominant knowledge). The book provides a historical map of how the Israel-Palestine conflict is understood in the West. The book can be used as a critique for students and professors to use alongside textbooks and is a vital and much-needed intervention into the state of affairs in Western academia."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword / by Professor Ilan Pappe

Preface: A Personal Story Postscript: From that Thesis to this Book

Prologue: A War on Western Textbooks

Introduction

Chapter 1: Textbooks and Theory

Chapter 2: Western Textbooks are Pro-Israeli or Anti-Israeli?

Chapter 3: The Survey, to Find Most Popular College Textbooks

Chapter 4: How Zionist Historiography Narrates the History?

Chapter 5: Textbook Analysis; How College Textbooks Treat History of Israel/Palestine?

Chapter 6: Context Analysis; Who Narrate History of Israel/Palestine?

Conclusion: What Went Wrong in Western Textbooks?

Appendix

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781350233096

1350233099

9781350233102

1350233102

OCLC:

1291219581