Tolerance Is a Wasteland

“Tolerance is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial is an incisive and provocative treatise on the culture of denial that informs a series of contemporary affects, practices, and relations about Israel and Zionism.” * Ethnic and Racial Studies *
“This is a book as much about the martial politics that structure liberalism as it is about Zionism and the settler colonial project in Palestine. Makdisi unravels the productive and destructive forces that normalize this project as part of global politics. Hence, the book is as much about us—the inheritors of liberalism sitting in Europe and North America—as it is about Palestine or the Israeli state.” * International Affairs *
“Readers familiar with and sympathetic to critiques of Israel’s history of displacement and coercive control of the non-Jewish population of Palestine can appreciate the author’s approach.” * CHOICE *
“An immensely satisfying book… . powerful and necessary.” * Arab Studies Quarterly *
“The work of a witty and allusive maestro at the height of his powers.”
* Against the Current *
“An immensely satisfying book… . powerful and necessary.” * Arab Studies Quarterly *

Saree Makdisi is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA. His previous books include Making England Western: Occidentalism, Race and Imperial Culture; Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation; and Reading William Blake.

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