History Upside Down
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| Author | David Meir-Levi |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Encounter Books |
Publication date | December 20, 2007 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 152 pages |
| ISBN | 1-59403-192-4 Search this book on  . |
History Upside Down: The Roots of Palestinian Fascism and the Myth of Israeli Aggression, is a book by David Meir-Levi, professor of archaeology, Near Eastern history, and Middle Eastern history[1][2] about the Israel-Palestine conflict. Meir-Levi argues that Israel and Zionism have become the targets of antisemitic historical negationism by Arabic and Muslim bigots.
David Meir-Levi is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and has a graduate degree in Near Eastern Studies from Brandeis University.
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In the United Nations, on university campuses, and among a growing number of our most prestigious Western newspapers, the historical record has been rewritten so thoroughly that Israel is seen as the worst of the oppressive Western occupiers of the Third World. So successful has this propaganda campaign been that Palestinian spinmeisters and their apologists have effectively declared the Israelis, a people living in the shadow of the Holocaust, to be "Nazis." How could this happen? How did unacceptable anti-Semitism morph into justifiable anti-Zionism, and odious Jew-hatred turn into a politically correct Israel-hatred?
— Excerpt from the History Upside Down blurb
History Upside Down is divided into two sections. The first provides a history of the Arab-Israeli conflict and contemporary Middle Eastern antisemitism, including the collaboration of Amin al-Husseini and the Muslim Brotherhood with Nazi Germany, the post-war rise of antisemitic jihadists like Sayyid Qutb, and the establishment of Hamas. Meir-Levi examines the influence of unifying identities such as Islamic extremism and pan-Arabism as antisemitic motivators, as well as international relationships to the Axis Powers and Soviet Union.
The second half of the book is dedicated to "dissect[ing] the myths [Palestinian fascism] has created to justify this long aggression."[3] These chapters address and reject the common understanding of events relating to Israeli settlement, the Nakba, and the Deir Yassin massacre.
Reception[edit]
David Meir-Levi has received a small but mostly positive reaction to his book. Political commentator and Middle East historian Asaf Romirowsky wrote on conservative website Middle East Forum that History Upside Down "provides a valuable guide for those who wish to understand one important aspect of the Arab-Israeli conflict—the battle over the conflict's historical narrative," and that "Meir-Levi's book attempts to unearth the historical root problems of defending Israel; he shows how doing so has become increasingly difficult as a result of the intellectualization of the debate."[4]
References[edit]
- ↑ "History Upside Down". Encounter Books. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
- ↑ Meir-Levi, David (2007). History Upside Down: The Roots of Palestinian Fascism and the Myth of Israeli Aggression. Encounter Books. ISBN 978-1-59403-192-2. Search this book on
- ↑ Meir-Levi, 2007, pg. 52
- ↑ Romirowsky, Asaf (January 2009). "Review of History Upside Down". Middle East Quarterly.
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