Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/0377919x.2023.2203042
Lana Tatour
Palestine studies has lost one of its giants. Working on ’48 Palestinians and on the politics of settler colonialism and indigeneity, I often find myself returning to Elia Zureik’s book The Palestinians in Israel: A Study in Internal Colonialism, which was published in 1979. One cannot overstate how revolutionary this work was at the time it was written, and how important it remains. The book appeared during a period when a host of Israeli and Zionist scholars—often explicitly serving the state and its propaganda machine—were producing work on ’48 Palestinians that aimed to portray Israel as a positive civilizing force that was modernizing and developing its backward Arab population.1 It challenged Israel’s racist, culturalist civilizational discourse on ’48 Palestinians head on. The book explores class and sociopolitical transformations among Palestinians in Israel, tracing how Israeli-Zionist colonization led to the shift from peasantry to proletariat, producing patterns of land alienation as a result of the mass dispossession of Palestinian land. Moreover, at a time when it was taboo in the Western academy, and more generally in the West, to identify ’48ers as Palestinians, Zureik’s decision as an early career scholar to insist on using the term “Palestinians” rather than “Israeli Arabs” was nothing short of courageous. One of Zureik’s most significant contributions was locating the study of ’48 Palestinians firmly within the then-evolving field of Palestine studies. His work was part of the burgeoning critical scholarship on Palestine by Palestinian scholars and allies. The publication of The Palestinians in Israel was supported by the Institute of Palestine Studies in Beirut and Zureik also published a series of articles during the 1970s in the then new JPS, which served as a significant platform for emerging critical work on the Palestinians in Israel.2 Among his intellectual interlocutors were Elias Shoufani, Hisham Sharabi (who was then the editor of JPS), Janet and Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, Noam Chomsky, and Khalil Nakhleh. In the spirit of the period, The Palestinians in Israel drew on Third World literature and political thought, centering settler colonialism, imperialism, Zionism, race, racism, and apartheid, and theorizing Israel as a “Zionist settler regime.”3 Zureik located ’48 Palestinians within the question of Palestine and in relation to the broader global imperial and (settler) colonial context, drawing comparisons with “the situation of the blacks in the United States, the North American Indians, and the blacks in South Africa.”4 Zureik’s work centered settler colonialism and a critique of Zionism in the study of ’48 Palestinians decades before the ascent of settler-colonial studies as a distinct field and the recent wave of work on settler colonialism and ’48ers. Israel, he argued, best fits the model of settler colonies. “Whether or not it differs from other settler colonial societies,” he wrote, “is an empirical and sociological
巴勒斯坦研究失去了一位巨人。在研究48名巴勒斯坦人以及定居者殖民主义和土著政治时，我经常发现自己又回到了Elia Zureik于1979年出版的《以色列的巴勒斯坦人：内部殖民主义研究》一书。无论怎样强调这部作品在写作时的革命性，以及它的重要性都不为过。这本书出现在一个时期，当时许多以色列和犹太复国主义学者——通常明确为国家及其宣传机器服务——正在对48名巴勒斯坦人进行研究，旨在将以色列描绘成一支积极的文明力量，使其落后的阿拉伯人口现代化和发展，这本书探讨了以色列巴勒斯坦人的阶级和社会政治变革，追溯了以色列犹太复国主义殖民化如何导致从农民向无产阶级的转变，以及由于大规模剥夺巴勒斯坦土地而产生的土地异化模式。此外，在西方学术界，以及更普遍的西方，将48岁的人认定为巴勒斯坦人是禁忌的时候，作为一名早期的职业学者，祖雷克决定坚持使用“巴勒斯坦人”而不是“以色列阿拉伯人”一词，这是非常勇敢的。Zureik最重要的贡献之一是将对48名巴勒斯坦人的研究牢牢地定位在当时不断发展的巴勒斯坦研究领域中。他的作品是巴勒斯坦学者和盟友迅速发展的巴勒斯坦批判学术的一部分。《以色列中的巴勒斯坦人》的出版得到了贝鲁特巴勒斯坦研究所的支持，Zureik在20世纪70年代还在当时的新JPS上发表了一系列文章，这是一个重要的平台，为新出现的关于以色列中的巴勒斯坦人的批评工作提供了支持。2他的知识分子对话者包括Elias Shoufani、Hisham Sharabi（当时是JPS的编辑），Janet和Ibrahim Abu Lughod、Noam Chomsky和Khalil Nakhleh。本着这一时期的精神，以色列的巴勒斯坦人借鉴了第三世界的文学和政治思想，以定居者殖民主义、帝国主义、犹太复国主义、种族、种族主义和种族隔离为中心，并将以色列理论化为“犹太复国主义定居者政权”，将其与“美国黑人、北美印第安人和南非黑人的处境”进行比较。4祖雷克的作品以定居者殖民主义为中心，并在定居者殖民主义研究作为一个独特领域兴起几十年前，在对48名巴勒斯坦人的研究中对犹太复国主义进行了批判，以及最近关于定居者殖民主义和48年代的工作浪潮。他认为，以色列最符合定居者殖民地的模式。“它是否与其他定居者殖民社会不同，”他写道，“是一个经验和社会学问题”——我们在研究、理解和理论化巴勒斯坦背景下的定居者殖民主义时，应该更加认真地对待这一见解。5祖里克对定居者殖民主义的理论化与当时的其他著作产生了共鸣，包括
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/0377919x.2023.2206786
Ahmad Amara
Abstract Since 1967, the slogan “restoring Jerusalem to its Jewish glory” has served as a rallying cry for the further colonization of the occupied eastern part of the city by the Israeli government and settler organizations alike. Jewish settlement in Jerusalem’s Palestinian neighborhoods invokes moral claims to Jewish sovereignty based on biblical history and material claims to pre-1948 properties of Jews in these neighborhoods. This essay examines Jewish settler groups’ utilization of Israel’s political-legal infrastructure to advance their colonization projects at the very heart of Palestinian neighborhoods in Jerusalem. More specifically, it examines an area of Silwan where Ateret Cohanim, through its representatives, has initiated eviction lawsuits against dozens of Palestinian families in the Israeli magistrate court, alleging trespass of Jewish-endowed waqf land established in the 1880s. As elsewhere in East Jerusalem, some of the targeted families in Silwan were originally displaced either from areas that became Israel after 1948 or from the Old City in 1967.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/0377919X.2023.2203830
J. Nabulsi
Abstract The 2021 Unity Intifada represented a vital moment in the history of Palestinian resistance. The unification of Palestinian struggle inherent to the uprising can be read as an expression of Palestinian Indigenous sovereignty. Drawing on the critical thought of Palestinians and other Indigenous peoples struggling against settler colonialism, I argue for a theorization of Palestinian indigeneity. Following from this indigeneity, I show that Palestinian Indigenous sovereignty is the embodied political claim to the land of Palestine. This theorization of sovereignty offers uniquely productive ways to account for and challenge Zionist/Israeli settler-colonial violence and, ultimately, to forge paths toward decolonial Palestinian futures.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/0377919X.2023.2216591
Basil Farraj
In the history of Palestinian resistance, whether the fellah, the fedayee, the shaheed, there is a conviction of their aims, even if it results in death or injury to the body, and there is a consciousness of the risks prior to enacting the chosen mode of resistance. However, Ajour is contributing to Palestinian resistance literature by analyzing the spiritual dimension of resistance reflected by, on the one hand, the individual decision to propel the striker forward nearer to death, and on the other hand, calling attention to the internal dialogue around individual and collective considerations. Part of the spiritual dimension is the motivation of love. Love for one’s family, love for one’s homeland, and love for dignity, freedom, and humanity as grounding principles and desires in making their decisions to strike and to continue. Reclaiming humanity by controlling one’s body, and in turn preventing the colonizer from controlling it, further disrupts and frustrates the colonial regime’s need to control and mediate all facets of Palestinian life. In so doing, the Palestinian hunger striker, even if temporarily, offers a revolutionary modality through which freedom is imagined and felt. In summary, Reclaiming Humanity in Palestinian Hunger Strikes: Revolutionary Subjectivity and Decolonizing the Body gives voice to the courageous hunger strikers, their experiences and their ideas around the resistance practice they have endured. It is through their words and analyses that the book is constructed. This book models an accountable research methodology that centers lived experience in a way that truly honors the strikers, their families, and the collective experience of the Palestinian hunger strike. And it is through this research, and through the words of the strikers themselves, that we gain new lenses and analyses about the stakes of resistance, political imprisonment in relation to settler colonialism, and the hunger strike as a move toward dignity and freedom; the possibilities of life through risking death.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/0377919X.2023.2219031
Jørgen Jensehaugen
Abstract Visually speaking, Robert Capa made Israel. Through that act he erased Palestine. The vision Capa developed of Israel is captured in the 303 published photographs that he took over the course of three trips in 1948–50. This article explores the ideological frameworks that shaped Capa’s understanding of Israel/Palestine and probes the concealed context of his images. The analysis shows that Capa covered his topic through an ideologized lens that depicted Israel as a heroic nation of Holocaust survivors and victors of war, while the Palestinians and the Nakba were hidden from view. Capa’s vision was important because he was an internationally renowned photographer who was not an official Israeli propagandist, yet his images served that function.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/0377919x.2023.2203041
S. Tamārī
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/0377919x.2023.2216588
Norbert Scholz
This section lists articles and reviews of books relevant to Palestine and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Entries are classified under the following headings: Palestine in Global and Comparative Perspectives; Palestine and the Palestinians; Literature and the Arts; Middle East and the Arab World; Israel and Zionism; and Recent Theses and Dissertations.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/0377919x.2023.2203036
R. Khalidi, S. Seikaly
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/0377919X.2023.2204017
Jennifer Mogannam
Reclaiming Humanity in Palestinian Hunger Strikes: Revolutionary Subjectivity and Decolonizing the Body intervenes on the topic of resistance and offers a new perspective on the post-Oslo, post-2000s intifada phase of the Palestinian struggle. Its analysis of hunger strikes sheds light on different forms of resistance and in doing so contends with the tension present in the choice to categorize such political action as individual or collective. It asks what these two analytical frames provide within a larger assessment of Palestinian resistance traditions historically perceived as collective. In examining the imprisonment of Palestinians, this book delves into their lived experiences and offers tools for expanding the frameworks of other fields. For example, in the case of carceral studies, the book’s specific focus on the hunger strike and the infrastructure of Israeli prisons informs a more nuanced approach for thinking about imprisonment. While carceral studies often centers the US prison system, which is deeply rooted in racial regimes of slavery, captivity, and the management of excess bodies from society that informs the logic of criminality in the US legal system, Israeli imprisonment of Palestinians is understood as political imprisonment of the noncitizen, whereby torture is normalized and criminality takes on a vastly different meaning. In both contexts, prisoners regard their experiences as conditions of the “living dead” (12) while enduring different repressive practices of carceral regimes. These elements complement and further expand the possible analyses of the function of racialized carceral regimes. As such, the study of the Israeli prison system offers additional dimensions for thinking through the politics and practices of imprisonment on various populations and how criminality is differentially understood based on context. In relation to settler-colonial studies, this contribution illuminates the embeddedness of the prison system within the settler-colonial structure and thus makes visible another type of Indigenous erasure. As the settler’s existence is dependent on the erasure of the native, and Palestinian survival is seen as a looming demographic threat, the carceral state offers another avenue in which to implement Indigenous erasure through captivity. This book offers a striker-centered narrative and analysis of the act of hunger strike as a personal engagement of mind, body, and soul as well as a collective experience of sumud and self-determined resistance. The individual act of hunger striking forces the occupier into a negotiation with the striker. This dialectical challenge of power serves a collective, national struggle through an individualized resistance modality, which shows that when a
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/0377919x.2023.2203037
Y. Abu-Laban
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