25. For Shavit’s quote (“from a state of utopian bliss”), see Shavit, Promised Land, p. 73. For the 1886 riots and subsequent ones, see Shapira, Land and Power, pp. 57–58, 110–11, 129; Shapira, Israel, p. 81.
26. For Shavit’s quote (“inevitable phase of the Zionist revolution”), see Shavit, Promised Land, p. 131. For a map of the discontinuous thirds of the 1947 partition plan, see Shapira, Israel, Plate 3, located between pages 242 and 243. For the Shapira quote (“ill-equipped, partially trained”), see Shapira, Israel, p. 148. On the relative size of Israeli and Arab forces during the war, see chapter 1, section iii, n. 81; Avi Shlaim, “Israel and the Arab Coalition in 1948,” in The War for Palestine, Eugene L. Rogan and Avi Shlaim, eds., p. 81. For Shapira’s quote (“did his utmost to avoid that snare”), see Shapira, Israel, p. 280.
27. For Shavit’s quote (“at the core of the Zionist enterprise”), see Shavit, Promised Land, p. 245. For the argument made by a group of Palestinian leaders (“What confusion would ensue”), see the Palestine Arab Delegation’s “Observations on the High Commissioner’s Interim Report on the Civil Administration of Palestine During the Period 1st July 1920–30th June 1921,” as cited in Natasha Gill’s valuable essay, “The Original ‘No’: Why the Arabs Rejected Zionism, and Why It Matters,” Middle East Policy Council, June 19, 2013. I am grateful to Natasha Gill for generously providing me with the original documents and numerous related ones.
28. For Shavit’s quote (“an aberration, a grotesque reincarnation”), see Shavit, Promised Land, p. 221.
29. For the several thousand Palestinians killed while trying to sneak back to their homes, see Shapira, Israel, pp. 274–75; Morris, Israel’s Border Wars; Morris, Righteous Victims, pp. 272–78. For the tens of thousands of Palestinians encouraged to leave or forcibly displaced, see the estimate by Morris of 30,000–40,000 in 1948–1950 alone: Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, p. 536.
30. For the restrictions on Palestinians in Israel until 1966, see Shapira, Israel, pp. 196–98. For the plans to transfer tens of thousands of Christian Arabs to Argentina and Brazil, see Arik Ariel, “Revealed from Archive: Israel’s Secret Plan to Resettle Arab Refugees,” Haaretz, December 19, 2013. For Shavit’s quote (“a just social democracy”), Shavit, Promised Land, p. 151.
31. For restrictions on the growth of Arab villages and efforts to “Judaize” the Arab-inhabited areas, see Shapira, Israel, pp. 350–51. For the push by the Labor Party and leading intellectuals for settlement growth and territorial expansion, see Gorenberg, The Unmaking of Israel (New York: Harper, 2011), p. 68; Shapira, Israel, p. 345.
32. For restrictions on the sale and lease of land to Arabs, punishment of commemoration of the Nakba, and the plans to “Judaize Galilee,” see Zafrir Rinat, “WZO Pushing New Jewish Towns to ‘Balance’ Arab Population in Israel’s North,” Haaretz, December 1, 2013; “‘Judaization’ of the Galilee Means Racism,” Haaretz, December 2, 2013; The Association for Civil Rights in Israel, “‘The Nakba Law’ and Its Implications,” May 15, 2011; Human Rights Watch, “Off the Map: Land and Housing Rights Violations in Israel’s Unrecognized Bedouin Villages,” 2008; Adalah–The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, “New Data on 39th Land Day: Gross Housing Discrimination Continues Against Palestinian Citizens of Israel,” March 30, 2015; Adalah, “Challenging ILA Policy of Tenders Open Only to Jews for Jewish National Fund Lands”; Adalah, “Land Rights and the Indigenous Palestinian Arab Citizens of Israel: Recent Cases in Law, Land and Planning,” submitted to the Secretariat, UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations, April 26, 2004. For the Haaretz headline, see “‘Judaization’ Is Racism,” Haaretz, January 20, 2013.
33. For the blurbs for Shavit’s book and the Natan Book Award, see the following page at the Random House website: www.randomhouseacademic.com/book?isbn=9780385521703, accessed August 23, 2016. For AIPAC’s distribution of the book to the Saban Leadership Seminar in 2014 and its sponsorship of several events for the book, see, for example, Jewish Federation of Cincinnati, “AIPAC Presents: An Evening with Ari Shavit,” October 28, 2014; Jewish Boston, “AIPAC PRESENTS: My Promised Land with Ari Shavit,” April 2, 2014. For the laudatory columns by Thomas Friedman and David Brooks, see Thomas L. Friedman, “Something for Barack and Bibi to Talk About,” The New York Times, November 17, 2013; David Brooks, “The Tragic Situation,” The New York Times, December 20, 2013. For David Remnick’s first quote, see the November 18, 2013, episode of the television program Charlie Rose. For Remnick’s second quote (“an argument for liberal Zionism”), see “A Conversation About Israel,” Council on Foreign Relations, December 4, 2013. For the Leon Wieseltier quote (“unblinkered by Zionism”), see Leon Wieseltier, “The State of Israel,” The New York Times, November 24, 2013.
34. This desire to have it both ways is not foreign to Shavit’s American Jewish fans, nor to the major leaders of their communities: when Spain decided to grant citizenship to descendants of Jews who were expelled during the Inquisition, Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the central representative body of the American Jewish establishment, said: “We saw a country confronting history, although 500 years late. [The] fact is that the Spanish government, in this action, is saying they recognize what happened. While they can’t undo it, they can at least acknowledge to those of Spanish descent that they are welcome in Spain.” Despite all of Shavit’s emphasis on 1948, he, like Hoenlein, does not call for Israel to offer its own recognition and to welcome the descendants of those who were expelled. For Hoenlein’s quote, see Judy Maltz, “U.S. Jewish Leader: BDS is ‘21st Century Form of 20th Century Anti-Semitism,’” Haaretz, February 17, 2014. For a public opinion poll showing that most American Jews identify as liberals and Democrats and feel affection for Israel, see “A Portrait of Jewish Americans,” Pew Research Center, October 1, 2013. For Shavit’s quotes (“have to leave that behind” and “we are the ultimate victims”), see “‘Promised Land’ Wrestles with Israel’s Brutal Contradictions,” NPR, November 18, 2013, http://www.npr.org/2013/11/18/245952983/promised-land-wrestles-with-israels-brutal-contradictions.
35. The Shavit and Remnick quotes appear between minutes 34 and 36 of the following recording of a November 19, 2013, event at the 92nd Street Y in New York: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeDxRFeNs_o, accessed August 23, 2016.
36. Shavit’s quote (“moral and reasonable obligation”) appears between minutes 6 and 7 of the November 18, 2013, episode of the television program Charlie Rose.
37. For Shavit’s quotes (“a collective act of messianic drunkenness”; “military campaign patiently, wisely, and calmly”; “We’re a tiny minority nation under attack”; “no partner”; and “liable to foment tidal waves of violence”), see Ari Shavit, “Why We Hate Him: The Real Reason,” Haaretz, December 26, 1997; “The Israelis’ Victory,” Haaretz, April 22, 2004; “The Challenge of Anti-Semitism,” Haaretz, August 21, 2014; “Thinking Outside Two Boxes,” Haaretz, March 19, 2009; “So Mature, This New Israeli Majority,” Haaretz, August 16, 2005. For the 71 Israelis and more than 2,250 Palestinians killed in the Gaza war, as well as one foreign worker in Israel, see chapter 9, nn. 16 and 18. For Shavit’s quotes on the Olmert plan (“unconditional surrender of Zionism”), his statement that withdrawal from even part of the West Bank would be a mistake, and his advocacy of cautious and gradual change while Israeli soldiers remain in place, see Ari Shavit, “Olmert’s Arrogance,” Haaretz, March 14, 2006; “The State of Israel: Past, Present, and Future,” Council on Foreign Relations, November 20, 2013. For a catalogue of Shavit’s many false and hysterical predictions, see “Ari Shavit: Apocalypse Now, Apocalypse Forever,” +972, November 21, 2013.
38. For Wieseltier’s quote (“least tendentious”), see Leon Wieseltier, “The State of Israel,” The New York Times, November 24, 2013. For Shavit’s quote (“prophet”), see Shavit, Promised Land, p. 397. For a citation of the Jabotinsky passage, from his essay, “The Iron Wall,” see chapter 3, n. 6.