Reading Herzl in Beirut - Gribetz, Jonathan Marc
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"How the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center informed the PLO's relationship to Zionism and Israel. In September 1982, the Israeli military invaded West Beirut and Israel-allied Lebanese militiamen massacred Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. Meanwhile, Israeli forces also raided the Palestinian Liberation Organization Research Center and trucked its complete library to Israel. Palestinian activists and supporters protested loudly to international organizations and the Western press, claiming that the assault on the Center proved that the Israelis sought to…mehr

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"How the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center informed the PLO's relationship to Zionism and Israel. In September 1982, the Israeli military invaded West Beirut and Israel-allied Lebanese militiamen massacred Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. Meanwhile, Israeli forces also raided the Palestinian Liberation Organization Research Center and trucked its complete library to Israel. Palestinian activists and supporters protested loudly to international organizations and the Western press, claiming that the assault on the Center proved that the Israelis sought to destroy not merely Palestinian militants but Palestinian culture as well. The protests succeeded. In November 1983, Israel returned the library as part of a prisoner exchange. What was in that library? Much of the expansive collection the PLO amassed consisted of books about Judaism, Zionism, and Israel. In Reading Herzl in Beirut, Jonathan Marc Gribetz tells the story of the PLO Research Center from its establishment in 1965 until its ultimate expulsion from Lebanon in 1983. Gribetz explores why the PLO invested in research about the Jews, what its researchers learned about Judaism and Zionism, and how the knowledge they acquired informed the PLO's relationship to Israel"--
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Jonathan Marc Gribetz is associate professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Program in Judaic Studies at Princeton University, where he also directs the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia. He is the author of Defining Neighbors: Religion, Race, and the Early Zionist-Arab Encounter (Princeton).