MIDDLE EAST QUARTERLY
Ben-Dror Yemini: Industry of Lies, Media, Academia, and the Israeli-Arab Conflict
Reviewed by Asaf Romirowsky
Spring 2019

Edward Said called Palestinians “the victims of the victims,” and such Holocaust inversion has been baked into the Palestinian story, turning Jews and Israelis into Nazis. This strategy of feigned victimhood and weakness underlies the success story of the Palestinian narrative. Yemini, former opinion editor at the Israeli daily Maariv and now a columnist for Yediot Ahronot, unpacks the relationship between Israel and its global image. READ MORE