Audio: Shlomo Sand And The Invention Of The Jewish People
Recently this weblog carried a quote made by David Ben Gurion concerning the origins of the Palestinian farmers. It was Ben Gurion’s contention in 1917 that the Palestinians represented a direct genetic link back to the ancient tribes of Israel.
To be fair Ben Gurion is not the only person who holds such views. Israeli Professor Shlomo Sand in his now famous book “when and how was the Jewish people invented?” comes up with a very similar hypothesis, although he goes much further than Ben Gurion ever would.
According to Shlomo Sand the Jewish people never existed as coherent nation state but rather as mix of groups that at various stages in history adopted the Jewish religion.
Professor Sholomo Sand’s book is written in Hebrew and is soon to be translated and published in English. Entitled The Invention of the Jewish People, the work is surely going to set the cat amongst the pigeons.
The following is an audio interview in English given by Professor Sand to KPFA’s Voices of the Middle East and North Africa on March 25, 2009. In the interview Shlomo Sand discusses his book and how Israel advocates adversely affect the careers of their academic critics:
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