The Invention of the Land of Israel

Praise

“Anyone interested in understanding the contemporary Middle East should read this book.”
—Tony Judt, In praise of The Invention of the Jewish People

“Perhaps books combining passion and erudition don’t change political situations, but if they did, this one would count as a landmark.”
—Eric Hobsbawm

“A thought-provoking, readable, and important work.”
—Publisher’s Weekly

“… there is much to enjoy and learn in the evidence in the potentially incendiary material [Shlomo Sand] assembles here.”
—Electronic Intifada

“[Sand] critically consider the ways in which the Zionist colonization of Palestine and the establishment of the State of Israel have been justified by claims of ancestral lands, historical rights, and millennia-old national yearnings, all of which he proceeds to critically undermine as either justifiable reasons for mastery over the land of Palestine/Israel or even representative of longstanding mass Jewish aspirations.”
—Book News

“This groundbreaking new historical work from a highly controversial author undoes the myth of the Jewish people’s historical right to the ‘Land of Israel.’”
—SirReadaLot.org