“One of the secrets of the Muslim army's power was its relatively liberal attitude toward the religions of the defeated people-provided they were monoththeists, of course. Muhammad's commandment to treat Jews and Christians as "People of The book" gave them… — Shlomo Sand Copy Share Image
“Peoples, populations, native populaces, tribes and religious communities are not nations, even though they are often spoken of as such.” — Shlomo Sand Copy Share Image
“Dominated by Zionism's particular concept of nationality, the State of Israel still refuses, sixty years after its establishment, to see itself as a republic… — Shlomo Sand Copy Share Image
I don’t think books can change the world, but when the world begins to change, it searches for different books. — Shlomo Sand Copy Share Image
“The inescapable and troublesome conclusion was that if there was a political entity in tenth-century Judea, it was a small tribal kingdom, and that… — Shlomo Sand Copy Share Image
“One of the secrets of the Muslim army's power was its relatively liberal attitude toward the religions of the defeated people-provided they were monoththeists,… — Shlomo Sand Copy Share Image
“Behind every act in Israel's identity politics stretches, like a long black shadow, the idea of an eternal power and race.” — Shlomo Sand Copy Share Image
If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology. — Shlomo Sand Copy Share Image
“The construction of a new body of knowledge always bears direct connection to the ideology in which it operates. Historical insights that diverge from… — Shlomo Sand Copy Share Image
