Description
How I Learned to Speak Israel is a guide for Americans wanting to better understand the Israel/Palestine situation. It is the author's story of how he thought he knew about the situation and history only to learn that a lot of mythology was mixed in. This book provides tools and approaches for discerning what is fact from fiction. How I Learned to Speak Israel emphasizes the importance of the language used to create the understandings we have of the situation and how the language used by the media and politicians affects domestic US policy and our rights as Americans.
Product Details
| Publisher | Great Tree Publishing, LLC |
| Publish Date | May 26, 2021 |
| Pages | 426 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9781954221048 |
| Dimensions | 9.0 X 6.0 X 0.9 inches | 1.4 pounds |
About the Author
Reviews
How I Learned To Speak Israel is a remarkable book...it delves even deeper into explicating the strange, unwise, and increasingly dangerous trance most American leaders are under when it comes to Israel...The explanations are so powerful they explode the trance.
-LAWRENCE WILKERSON
Former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell
How I learned to Speak Israel is a must read for any American. Learning to Speak "Israel'' is a crucial part of any American's political awakening.
-MIKO PELED
Author and activist
Author of The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine and
Injustice: the Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five
Alex McDonald's How I Learned to Speak Israel: An American's Guide to a Foreign Policy Language provides an invaluable perspective to the most fraught political issue of our time.
-CAROLYN L. KARCHER
Editor of Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism:
Stories of Personal Transformation
Alex McDonald's book How I Learned to Speak Israel attracts our attention to the importance of words in the struggle for justice in Palestine...This book exposes methodically how texts and images help to produce and perpetuate the perceptions and framing of Israel and Palestine within the American public.
-ILAN PAPPÉ
Professor of History
Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies
University of Exeter
Author of: Ten Myths About Israel, A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples,
The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel,
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, The Biggest Prison on Earth, among others.
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