Category: Books
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Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner’s Guide
An essential primer for those getting to grips with the Palestine/Israel conflict for the first time. Ben White skilfully distills the work of academics and experts into a highly accessible introduction. The book is rooted in the author’s extensive personal experience in Palestine and includes testimonies by Palestinians describing how Israeli apartheid affects their daily lives, demonstrated practices of the Israeli Apartheid regime, that include: Israeli blockade and attacks on the Gaza Strip since 2008, new policies targeting Palestinian citizens of Israel and the growth of the global Boycott Divestment Sanctions campaign.
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Beyond Occupation: Apartheid, Colonialism and International Law in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Beyond Occupation analyses three critical terms that regularly arise in contemporary arguments about Israel’s practices towards Palestinians in the occupied territories – occupation, colonialism and apartheid – and explores the degree to which their definitions in international law truly apply to Israel’s policies. Colonialism and apartheid are serious breaches of human rights law while apartheid is a crime against humanity. The contributors present conclusive evidence that Israel’s administration of the Palestinian territories is consistent with colonialism and apartheid. Furthermore, the authors demonstrate the deliberateness of Israeli state policies, imposed on the Palestinian civilian population under military occupation. These findings raise serious implications for the legality and legitimacy of Israel’s continuing occupation of the Palestinian territories and the responsibility of the entire international community to challenge practices considered contrary to fundamental values of the international legal order.
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One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse
Clear-eyed, sharply reasoned, and compassionate, Ali Abunimah proposes a visionary alternative to the two state solution: to revive the neglected idea of one state shared by two peoples. The author demonstrates that both people are so intertwined by now—geographically and economically—that separation cannot lead to the security Israelis need or the rights Palestinians must have. Taking on the objections and taboos that stand in the way of a binational solution, he demonstrates that sharing the territory will bring benefits for all. The absence of other workable options has only led to ever- greater extremism. It is time, Abunimah argues, for Palestinians and Israelis to imagine a different future and a different relationship.
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Palestine: Peace not Apartheid
As Oslo failed, Israel as an apartheid reappeared in prominent politicians’ rhetoric but continued to be firmly excluded from formal diplomacy. Former US President Jimmy Carter was the first to associate Israel with apartheid. His book describes his assessment to the importance of the two state solution in bringing permanent peace to Israel, dignity and justice to Palestinians, and avoiding a system of apartheid. The importance of his book lies in being the first to identify the Israeli regime as an apartheid regime and admitting the injustice and deprivation of dignity Palestinian are currently living through.
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The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians
This groundbreaking series of essays answers key questions, such as: What has been the main achievement of the Zionist movement? What accounts for the failure of the Palestinian National Movement to win its struggle against Israel? What do anti-Semitism, colonialism and racism have to do with the Palestinian/Israeli ‘conflict’? Joseph Massad offers a radical departure from mainstream analysis in order to expose the causes for the persistence of the ‘Palestinian Question’. He proposes that a resolution can be found only when linking the Palestinian Question with the Jewish Question as one and the same question. All other proposed solutions, the author argues, are bound to fail. Solution of the Palestinian Question will not be found unless settler-colonialism, racism, and anti-Semitism are abandoned as the ideological framework for a resolution.
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The One-State Solution: A Breakthrough for Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock
The Israeli settlements have already encroached on the occupied territory of the West Bank and Gaza Strip to the extent that any Palestinian state in those areas is unviable. The book reveals the irreversible impact of Israel’s settlement grid by summarizing its physical, demographic, financial, and political dimensions. Virginia Tilley explains the reason one should assume that this grid will not be withdrawn—or its expansion reversed—by reviewing the role of the key political actors: the Israeli government, the United States, the Arab states, and the European Union. Finally, the book addresses the daunting obstacles to a one-state solution—including major revision to the Zionist dream—and offers approaches to address those obstacles.
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Apartheid Israel: Possibilities for the Struggle Within
Uri Davis analyses how it was possible for Israel and its apartheid legislation notwithstanding, to still maintain its reputation in the West as the only democracy in the Middle East, and effectively to veil the apartheid cruelty it has perpetrated against the Palestinian people.
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Why Israel? The Anatomy of Zionist Apartheid: a South African Perspective
Israel’s military occupation of Palestine is horrifically reminiscent of South Africa’s Apartheid past. Yet, pro-Israeli apologists are shocked that the Zionist entity is being compared to Apartheid South Africa. In response, Zionists ask “Why Israel?”
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Apartheid Israel: Possibilities for the Struggle Within
Uri Davis analyses how it was possible for Israel and its apartheid legislation notwithstanding, to still maintain its reputation in the West as the only democracy in the Middle East, and effectively to veil the apartheid cruelty it has perpetrated against the Palestinian people.
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Palestinian Citizens in an Ethnic Jewish State: Identities in Conflict
This book examines the situation of Arab Palestinian citizens of Israel, analyzing how the Palestinian collective identity has been shaped by social and political forces and how it poses major challenges to Israel’s policies, structure, and identity. Nadim Rouhana draws on surveys, interviews, and archival research to examine the evolvement of Palestinian identity in response to Israel’s three guiding—and conflicting—principles: Israel as a Jewish state, as a democracy, and as a state with deep security needs. The consequences of Israel’s ideology, policy, and practices toward the Arab minority; the effect of major developments in the Arab world, particularly in the Palestinian communities in exile, in the West Bank and Gaza; and the impact of changes within the Palestinian community in Israel such as demography, level of education, socioeconomic structure, and political culture. Arguing that in a multiethnic state, conflict becomes inevitable unless citizenship emerges as a common and equally meaningful identity to the various ethnonational groups, he concludes by exploring the possibilities of negotiating a new and common identity between Israel and its Arab minority.