Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial

How denial sustains the liberal imagination of a progressive and democratic Israel.

The question that this book aims to answer might seem simple: how can a violent project of dispossession and discrimination be imagined, felt, and profoundly believed in as though it were the exact opposite––an embodiment of sustainability, multicultural tolerance, and democratic idealism? Despite well—documented evidence of racism and human rights abuse, Israel has long been embraced by the most liberal sec...