“The construction of a new body of knowledge always bears direct connection to the ideology in which it operates. Historical insights that diverge from the narrative laid down at the inception of the nation can be accepted only when consternation… — 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
