The following thesis analyzes American Jewish public intellectuals and their use of the Zionist narrative, the New Historian scholarship, or a mixture of the two in their writing. The political leanings of the public intellectuals, authors, schola...
The Israelis recognize the 1948 Arab-Israeli War as a war of independence. For the Palestinians, it is known as al-Nakba—the "Catastrophe". The war helped create the state of Israel while displacing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. However, ...