Simulated Dreams: Israeli Youth and Virtual Zionism

Tamar Rapoport*

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Abstract

Zionism—the Israeli national constitutive myth that powerfully shapes that country's politics, society, and culture—is currently under attack from Israeli social scientists. An academic–political stream known as post-Zionism is reexamining and questioning nearly all of Israeli society's “sacred cows” as it exposes the coercive, silencing, and exclusionary force of the Zionist master narrative and its contribution to intense conflicts and cultural and social distortions. This is the context in which the book at hand should be read. It critically examines the Zionist ethos from a cultural anthropological perspective, and explores the cultural mediums through which the Zionist narrative passes as it undergoes a process of fragmentation through simulation.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)383-385
Number of pages3
JournalAJS Review
Volume28
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2004

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