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Author talk with Saree Makdisi

Sun, 05 Mar

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Better Read Than Dead

Join Saree Makdisi as he discusses the release of, Tolerance is a Wasteland, Palestine and the Culture of Denial. Saree will be in conversation with Lana Tatour.

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Author talk with Saree Makdisi
Author talk with Saree Makdisi

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05 Mar 2023, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Better Read Than Dead, 265 King St, Newtown NSW 2042, Australia

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How denial sustains the liberal imagination of a progressive and democratic Israel. The question that this book aims to answer might seem simple: how can a violent project of dispossession and discrimination be imagined, felt, and profoundly believed in as though it were the exact opposite––an embodiment of sustainability, multicultural tolerance, and democratic idealism? Despite well-documented evidence of racism and human rights abuse, Israel has long been embraced by the most liberal sectors of European and American society as a manifestation of the progressive values of tolerance, plurality, inclusivity, and democracy, and hence a project that can be passionately defended for its lofty ideals. 

Tolerance Is a Wasteland argues that the key to this miraculous act of political alchemy is a very specific form of denial. Here the Palestinian presence in, and claim to, Palestine is not simply refused or covered up, but negated in such a way that the…

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