Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question, is a collection of essays, co-edited by Edward Said and Christopher Hitchens, and first published by Verso Books in 1988 (ISBN 0-86091-887-4).
See: Norman Finkelstein on From Time Immemorial
The "broadcast" issue relates to whether or not the Palestinian Arab population who were dispossessed were induced or incited to run away by their own leadership during the 1948 Palestini...
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Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question, is a collection of essays, co-edited by Edward Said and Christopher Hitchens, and first published by Verso Books in 1988 (ISBN 0-86091-887-4).
See: Norman Finkelstein on From Time Immemorial
The "broadcast" issue relates to whether or not the Palestinian Arab population who were dispossessed were induced or incited to run away by their own leadership during the 1948 Palestinian exodus. Hitchens refers to Benny Morris´s then newly published article The Causes and Character of the Arab Exodus from Palestine: The Israel Defence Forces Intelligence Service Analysis of June 1948, which was first published in January 1986 in the Middle Eastern Studies.
According to Hitchens this confirmation; "by an Israeli historian using the most scrupulous and authentic Zionist sources, at last allows us to write finis to a debate which has been going on for a quarter of a century [...] between Erskine B. Childers and Jon Kimche."
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