Shlomo Sand

“Peoples, populations, native populaces, tribes and religious communities are not nations, even though they are often spoken of as such.”

— Shlomo Sand

“Dominated by Zionism's particular concept of nationality, the State of Israel still refuses, sixty years after its establishment, to see itself as…

— Shlomo Sand

I don’t think books can change the world, but when the world begins to change, it searches for different books.

— Shlomo Sand

“The inescapable and troublesome conclusion was that if there was a political entity in tenth-century Judea, it was a small tribal kingdom,…

— Shlomo Sand

“One of the secrets of the Muslim army's power was its relatively liberal attitude toward the religions of the defeated people-provided they…

— Shlomo Sand

“Behind every act in Israel's identity politics stretches, like a long black shadow, the idea of an eternal power and race.”

— Shlomo Sand

If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology.

— Shlomo Sand

“The construction of a new body of knowledge always bears direct connection to the ideology in which it operates. Historical insights that…

— Shlomo Sand