Scholars for Peace in the Middle East has announced the publication of Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, edited by Philip Carl Salzman and Donna Robinson Divine. This important work disputes postcolonial theory, which dominates many academic departments, in the following ways:

  • the theoretical assumption and formulations of postcolonial theory are scrutinized and found dubious;
  • the deleterious impact of postcolonial theory on academic disciplines is demonstrated;
  • the distorted postcolonial view of history, its obsession with current events to the exclusion of the historical basis of events, is exposed and corrected;
  • an examination of Middle Eastern culture challenges the assumption that these societies have been shaped entirely, and victimized, by Western intrusion; and
  • exploring the Arab-Israel conflict, the one-sided case of postcolonial Arabism is explored and found to be faulty.