Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State

This is an account of the Jewish state's motives behind building the West Bank wall, arguing that at the heart of the issue is demography. Israel fears the moment when the region's Palestinians become a majority. The book charts Israel's increasingly desperate responses to its predicament including military repression of Palestinian dissent on both sides of the Green Line; accusations that Israel's Palestinian citizens and the Palestinian Authority are secretly conspiring to subvert the Jewish state from within; a ban on marriages between Israel's Palestinian population and Palestinians living under occupation to prevent a right of return 'through the back door'; the redrawing of the Green Line to create an expanded, fortress state where only Jewish blood and Jewish religion count.

Author: Jonathan Cook
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 04/20/2006
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.34w x 0.51d
ISBN: 9780745325552

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2007 pg. 43

About the Author
Jonathan Cook is a former staff journalist for the Guardian and Observer newspapers. He has also written for The Times, Le Monde diplomatique, International Herald Tribune, Al-Ahram Weekly and Aljazeera.net. He is based in Nazareth.

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