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Readers can explore provocative examinations of nationalism, Jewish history, and the complex realities of Israel-Palestine, encouraging a fresh perspective on long-standing historical debates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis books invite critical reflection on collective memory and the myths shaping modern identities, making them essential reading for those interested in \u003cem\u003eHistory \u0026amp; Military\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePolitics \u0026amp; Current Affairs\u003c\/em\u003e, and thoughtful \u003cem\u003eEducation \u0026amp; Reference\u003c\/em\u003e alike.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"israel-palestine-by-shlomo-sand-9781509564408","title":"Israel-Palestine","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince the brutal massacre perpetrated by Hamas on 7 October and the subsequent bombing and invasion of Gaza, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been thrust back to the centre of the world’s attention. How can this deep-rooted conflict, stretching back for more than 75 years, be brought to an end? What kind of political structure might one day enable Israelis and Palestinians to overcome the seemingly interminable cycle of violence and live in peace with one another?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor many years, politicians and citizens of different persuasions have called for a two-state solution – two independent states, Israel and Palestine, co-existing side by side. This was Shlomo Sand’s view too: a distinguished Israeli historian and political activist on the left, he had long supported the idea of a two-state solution. But as more and more settlements were built in the occupied West Bank and millions of Palestinians were forced to live in a situation of de facto apartheid, deprived of their basic civil rights and political freedoms, he came to the conclusion that the two-state solution had become an empty formula that no one seriously intended to implement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt was in this context that Sand sought to find an alternative way out of the Israeli-Palestinian imbroglio. His journey into the dark corners of Zionism’s ideological past threw up some surprises. He discovered that some Zionists and other Jewish intellectuals had rejected the idea of an exclusive Jewish state and had supported moves to create a bi-national federation. They believed that only egalitarian integration within the framework of a common state would ensure that Israel could be a safe haven for all of its inhabitants. While the chances of realizing this egalitarian vision may seem remote in the current hostile context, it may well be that a bi-national state in which Israelis and Palestinians are treated as equals is the only realistic solution in the end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlso available as an audiobook\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46796373688556,"sku":"9781509564408","price":42.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12666333482725.jpg?v=1757093066"},{"product_id":"a-brief-global-history-of-the-left-by-shlomo-sand-9781509558254","title":"A Brief Global History of the Left","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat is happening to the Left? It seems to be dying a slow death. While many commentators have predicted its demise, the Left has always defied these bleak prognoses and risen from the ashes in the most unexpected ways. Nevertheless, we are witnessing today a global decline in organized movements on the Left, and while social struggles continue to challenge dominant political regimes, these efforts do not translate into support for traditional left parties or into the creation of dynamic movements on the Left.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBestselling historian Shlomo Sand argues that the global decline of the Left is linked to the waning of the idea of equality that has united citizens in the past and inspired them to engage in collective action. Sand retraces the evolution of this idea in a wide-ranging account that includes the Diggers and Levellers of seventeenth-century England; the French Revolution; the birth of anarchism and Marxism; the decolonial, feminist, and civil rights revolts; and the left-wing populism of our time. In piecing together the thinkers and movements that built the Left over centuries, Sand illuminates the global and transnational dynamics which pushed them forward. He outlines how they shaped the notion of equality, while also analysing how they were confronted by its material reality, and the lessons that they did – or did not – draw from this.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis concise and magisterial history of the Left will appeal to anyone interested in the idea of equality and the fate of one of the most important movements that has shaped the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlso available as an audiobook.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46832108372204,"sku":"9781509558254","price":42.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12604793482725.jpg?v=1758365706"},{"product_id":"how-i-stopped-being-a-jew-by-shlomo-sand-9781784782009","title":"How I Stopped Being a Jew","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShlomo Sand was born in 1946, in a displaced person’s camp in Austria, to Jewish parents; the family later migrated to Palestine. 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When does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for such places throughout the twentieth century? What is the essence of the Promised Land?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing the acclaimed and controversial \u003cem\u003eThe Invention of the Jewish People\u003c\/em\u003e, Shlomo Sand examines the mysterious sacred land that has become the site of the longest-running national struggle of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. \u003cem\u003eThe Invention of the Land of Israel\u003c\/em\u003e deconstructs the age-old legends surrounding the Holy Land and the prejudices that continue to suffocate it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe invention of the modern concept of the \"Land of Israel\" in the nineteenth century, he argues, not only facilitated the colonisation of the Middle East and the establishment of the State of Israel, it is also what is threatening Israel's existence today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072742572268,"sku":"9781781680834","price":88.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9508963482822.jpg?v=1765129376"},{"product_id":"judeophobia-by-shlomo-sand-9781509570782","title":"Judeophobia","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout the history of the Western world, Jews have suffered various forms of exclusion, stigmatisation, and discrimination that have forced them always to be aware of their very particular situation. The Jews became a community under siege and, as Shlomo Sand argues, Judaism was shaped by the hostile gaze of Christian civilisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhile the forms of hostility endured by the Jews have varied over the centuries, it is impossible to understand twentieth-century anti-Judaism, or Jewish identity itself, without taking account of the sediments of mental hatred, fuelled by religious belief, which have survived the passage of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhile antisemitism is the term commonly used today, Sand prefers \u003cem\u003eJudeophobia\u003c\/em\u003e, which predates the appearance of 'antisemitism' and is more precise. Looking back over the centuries, he seeks to identify some of the stages in the age-old, incandescent hatred of the Jews and tries to understand what remains today of this trenchant hostility. He also questions whether Zionism, born as a distressed response to modern Judeophobia, has ended up mirroring it. To what extent has Zionism inherited the ideological foundations that have always been characteristic of the persecutors of the Jews?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis concise history of anti-Jewish hatred will be of great interest to anyone concerned with one of the most insidious and persistent features of Western civilisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47306910073068,"sku":"9781509570782","price":35.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/3de86c91031b1d6193912eaac95715cd.jpg?v=1771100155"},{"product_id":"on-the-nation-and-the-jewish-people-by-shlomo-sand-9781844674626","title":"On the Nation and the Jewish People","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eErnest Renan was one of the intellectual giants of the second half of the nineteenth century in France, the man who first opened up the study of nationalism. In this book, Shlomo Sand, the author of the best-selling \u003ci\u003eThe Invention of the Jewish People\u003c\/i\u003e, demonstrates the complexity of Renan's thought. Sand shows the relationship of Renan's work to that of key twentieth-century thinkers on nationalism, such as Raymond Aron and Ernest Gellner, and argues for the continued importance of studying Renan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlongside his essay, Sand presents two classic lectures by Renan: the first, the renowned \"What Is a Nation?\", argues that nations are not based upon race, religion, and language; in the second he uses historical evidence to show that the Jews cannot be considered a \"pure ethnos.\" \u003ci\u003eOn the Nation and the Jewish People\u003c\/i\u003e is an important contribution to the understanding of nationalism, bringing back into play the work of a profoundly misunderstood thinker.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455667060972,"sku":"9781844674626","price":28.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/718lUgq_gvL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774790972"},{"product_id":"the-invention-of-the-jewish-people-by-shlomo-sand-9781836740377","title":"The Invention of the Jewish People","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA historical tour de force, \u003cem\u003eThe Invention of the Jewish People\u003c\/em\u003e offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. 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