The idea of Israel: a history of power and knowledge

Introduction: debating the idea of Israel

Pt. 1. The scholarly and fictional idea of Israel

The 'objective' history of the land and the people

The alien who became a terrorist: the Palestinian in Zionist thought

The war of 1948 in word and image

Pt. 2. Israel's post-Zionist moment

The trailblazers

Recognizing the Palestinian catastrophe: the 1948 war revisited

The emergence of post-Zionist academia, 1990-2000

Touching the raw nerves of society: Holocaust memory in Israel

The idea of Israel and the Arab Jews

The post-Zionist cultural moment

On the Post-Zionist stage and screen

The triumph of neo-Zionism

The neo-Zionist new historians

Epilogue: brand Israel 2013.