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1988 book by Edward Said

For the concept of blaming the victim, see Victim blaming.

Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question is a collection of essays, co-edited by Palestinian scholar and advocate Edward Said and journalist and author Christopher Hitchens, published by Verso Books in 1988. It contains essays by Said and Hitchens as well as other prominent advocates and activists including Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, Janet L. Abu-Lughod, Noam Chomsky, Norman G. Finkelstein, Rashid Khalidi.

Introduction

In his introduction, Said says he believes that the establishment of Israel occurred partly because the Israelis "acquired control" of the land, and partly because they had won the "political battle for Palestine in the international world in which ideas, representations, rhetoric, and images were at issue." He returns again to this theme, remarking on the "dominance of the Zionist viewpoint in Western cultural discourse ... " In describing this viewpoint he notes what he calls Zionism's "spurious, often flagrantly preposterous arguments." Said says there is an "official Zionist discourse", and "unofficial Zionist work", citing for some praise the "revisionist historians" such as Tom Segev and Benny Morris. Said

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Ibrahim's Newsletter (aka Brooklyn Bedouin Blog)

This is our wedding invitation:

The poem around the border is:

when you plant a tree
every leaf that grows will tell you
what you sow will bear fruit
so if you have any sense
my friend
don’t plant anything but love
you show your worth by what you seek
if you let God weave the verse in your poem
people will read it forever
-Rumi-

We chose this poem as an aspiration for our life together. With Ibrahim gone too soon, the incredible number of people showering us with love and support from across the world demonstrates just how much Ibrahim lived Rumi’s words in his short life.

Thank you for the beautiful gathering in Fort Greene Park on August 15^th. It was the kind of reunion/party that only Ibrahim could orchestrate, with diverse networks of people from the professional world, party days, school and sports, coffee shop circuit, subway land, farmers market friends, around the corner homies, and more.

Thank you to each and every person who came. Your presence was the greatest present for my family and me that day.

Thank you to everyone who put time, energy, effort, resources, kindness, and so much care into putting the gathering together.

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