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Ella Habiba Shohat is Professor of Cultural Studies and Women's Studies at CUNY. A writer, orator and activist, she is the author of Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation (Univ. of Texas Press, 1989) and the co-author (with Robert Stam) of Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media (Routledge 1994). Shohat co-edited Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation and Postcolonial Reflections (University of Minnesota Press, 1997) and is the editor of Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age, (MIT Press/The New Museum, 2000). She writes often for such journals as Social Text and the Journal for Palestine Studies. … more about the author
Reflections By An Arab Jew - Ella Shohat
Past is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine (New Issue of Settler Colonial Studies)
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2000 Camp David
Occupied by Memory: The Intifada Generation
This is wonderful book which captures the social upheaval and transitions that took place in Palestinian society during the first Intifada. Collins writes in a style easily accessible for the layperson while still useful for the academic. As for the ignorant reviewer, it is unclear what exactly s/he found objectionable... but they clearly have little understanding of the situation in occupied Palestine. This work offers great insight into the Palestinian struggle FOR human rights. The previous reviewer is obviously operating with a myopic/biased understanding of the Palestinian reality. Can irredentism and reactionary nationalism have an effect on a population?
A History of Modern Palestine - Academic and Professional Books - Cambridge University Press
Ilan Pappe's book traces the history of Palestine from the Ottomans in the nineteenth century, through the British Mandate, the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, and the subsequent wars and conflicts which have dominated this troubled region. The second edition of Pappe's book has been updated to include the dramatic events of the 1990s and the early twenty-first century. These years, which began with a sense of optimism, as the Oslo peace accord was being negotiated, culminated in the second intifada and the increase of militancy on both sides. Pappe explains the reasons for the failure of Oslo and the two-state solution, and reflects upon life thereafter as the Palestinians and Israelis battle it out under the shadow of the wall of separation. As in the first edition, it is the men, women and children of Palestine who are at the centre of Pappe's narrative.
Very few in the West can honestly claim to have been able to appraise the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from an objective point of view that takes into account nothing but the facts. In all fairness, until quite recently, it has been tricky to find complete information that was not deformed and manipulated by heavy ideological filters. Surprisingly, that same claim can be made for many who live in the heart of the land itself, neighbours to an “enemy” who has a destiny that is entwined, but without an idea of who this “enemy” is and what motivations drive him. Our beliefs and any actions we might take regarding the conflict are influenced by the version of the story that was made available to us, often without our being aware of how simple it is to distort facts, and usually out of good faith, we in the West have accepted almost entirely the veracity of the version that is dominant in our society.
"The Lemon Tree" by Sandy Tolan
"Occupation 101" - Essential Viewing
I always struggle to know where to point people who just want a basic background on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. I have reams and reams of books, websites, articles and such I can point them to, but they're either too complex, too over-simplified, too specialized, too de-personalized, assume too much knowledge, or otherwise don't really do the "101" job of explaining things with the right balance of providing sufficient information while not overwhelming. Well, I think I finally found a good one.
The Zionist Story — War in Context
“The Zionist Story”, an independent documentary released in February 2009, written, edited, produced and directed by “Berek Joselewicz” (Ronen Berelovich), presents: … not just the history of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, but also the core reason for it: the Zionist ideology, its goals (past and present) and its firm grip not only on Israeli society, but also, increasingly, on the perception of Middle East issues in Western democracies. These concepts have already been demonstrated in the excellent ‘Ocupation 101′ documentary made by Abdallah Omeish and Sufyan Omeish , but in my documentary I approach the subject from the perspective of an Israeli, ex-reserve soldier and someone who has spent his entire life in the shadow of Zionism.Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 101 | Jewish Voice for Peace
A: The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is, in essence, a conflict over territory. Although religion plays a role in defining the identities of the parties to the conflict, and for some Jews, in justifying their claims to the land, the conflict is not, fundamentally, a religious conflict. Q: What exactly is "the occupation"?
Israel Palestine | The Browser
Israeli academic gives overview of different options for the conflict. Binationalism unrealistic, two state solution not workable. Conclusion seems to be that that stronger conflict management is the only solution.... Seminal piece that argues for binationalism. Israel is 'an oddity among modern nations... because it is a Jewish state in which one community—Jews—is set above others, in an age when that sort of state has no place.' Professor Duncan Kennedy at Harvard Law School gives, by his own admittance, a 'dystopian' lecture on the two state versus one state solution
Now The Invention of the Jewish People by Shlomo Sand. It’s been a bestseller in Israel, and that’s very interesting because it undermines the blood and soil aspects of Zionism and also the Christian Zionism that is so rife in the United States. What is Christian Zionism?
Robin Yassin-Kassab on The Israel-Palestine conflict | FiveBooks | The Browser
Palestinians around the world are marking the anniversary of the Nakba , the catastrophe that occurred when the state of Israel was established in 1948. The scale of the devastation was overwhelming: four in five Palestinian villages inside the borders of the new state were ethnically cleansed, an act of mass dispossession accompanied by atrocities. Around 95 per cent of new Jewish communities built between 1948-1953 were established on the land of expelled, denationalised Palestinians.
Palestinian Nakba: Forever a memory - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
Last week, the Grand Mufti of Egypt, Ali Gomaa, made an unprecedented visit to Jerusalem, where he worshiped at the famous Al Aqsa Mosque. His visit drew condemnation from Muslim leaders in Egypt, and even from some Palestinians. Muslim leaders across the Middle East have long followed a policy of boycotting travel to Jerusalem, until Israel ends its occupation of the city and Palestinian land . Some have labeled those who visit Jerusalem as “normalizers” of the occupation, and sometimes even traitors. This high-profile visit to Jerusalem was thus seen as a violation of this boycott policy, and has stirred much debate.
Aziz Abu Sarah
Oslo Accords
Institute for Palestine Studies - Home
Tuesday, 15 May 2012, is the 64th Anniversary of Palestinian Nakba Day. This date commemorates the end, on 15 May 1948, of the so-called “Mandate” over Palestine “granted” to Britain by the League of Nations (the UN’s predecessor) following the end of World War I. The Mandate system, a form of imposed international trusteeship, was devised by the victorious powers, chiefly Britain and France, to give a veneer of legality to their post-war military occupation and rule over the former Middle Eastern Arab provinces of the defeated Ottoman Empire. Thus, while Britain obtained mandates over Iraq, Palestine, and Trans-Jordan, France obtained mandates over Syria and Lebanon. The main purpose of Britain’s mandate over Palestine was to give effect to a unilateral promise made by its government in 1917 (the Balfour Declaration, after the then British foreign secretary) to the World Zionist Organization (WZO) to establish “a Jewish National Home” in Palestine.Documentaires
UN resolutions
The Partition of Palestine
The 1948 War
In Comrades and Enemies Zachary Lockman explores the mutually formative interactions between the Arab and Jewish working classes, labor movements, and worker-oriented political parties in Palestine just before and during the period of British colonial rule. Unlike most of the historical and sociological literature on Palestine in this period, Comrades and Enemies avoids treating the Arab and Jewish communities as if they developed independently of each other. Instead of focusing on politics, diplomacy, or military history, Lockman draws on detailed archival research in both Arabic and Hebrew, and on interviews with activists, to delve into the country's social, economic, and cultural history, showing how Arab and Jewish societies in Palestine helped to shape each other in significant ways.
Comrades and Enemies : Zachary Lockman - University of California Press
Palestine under the British mandate
Historians of the conflict