Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/0377919X.2022.2090216
J. Winegar
the deep disillusionment in collective resistance that Kayali’s interlocutors have described, the text ends on a hopeful note that the women’s “agentive responses also contain potential seeds of change” (215). Perhaps this conclusion illustrates the persistent sumoud of Palestinian women and the Palestinian people as a whole—the endurance to continuously innovate strategies throughout such a long history of resistance. One aspect of this innovation might be how today’s Palestinian women’s collectives reaffirm their identity, not solely as women’s organizing spaces but explicitly feminist movements that confront colonialism, dispossession, and gender-based violence. As Kayali’s research was conducted primarily among women in the Bethlehem governorate, future scholarship can build on this work by expanding the scope to other locales, particularly Palestinians in the 1948 territories, Gaza, and in exile and diaspora, so that the scholarship can overcome the fragmentation and divisions caused by Israeli settler colonialism. Palestinian Women and Popular Resistance is essential reading for anyone curious about Palestinian women’s movements and would be a great addition to any women and gender studies syllabus or course on Palestine.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/0377919X.2022.2091386
N. Tayeh
Abstract This article examines the urban development of camps under humanitarian mandates in the context of the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt). The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) launched its Infrastructure and Camp Improvement Programme (ICIP) in 2007, with several pilot projects carried out to test this new approach. Using Gaza’s Deir El-Balah refugee camp as a case study, this article explores the contradictions inherent to development under humanitarianism and what Ilana Feldman has called “punctuations” in a chronic context of siege and infrastructure violence. That context, the article argues, perpetually sets the refugee communities back, eroding whatever capacities they were able to build up through their own collective efforts and through the aid of which they have been recipients for decades. Compounded by UNRWA’s perpetual funding shortage, the limits of development under the humanitarian umbrella within the context of a technocratic apolitical mandate become even more apparent.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.1080/0377919x.2022.2091382
T. Baconi
Abstract This essay offers a critical reading of the mainstreaming of the narrative, long advocated by Palestinians, that Israel is perpetrating the crime of apartheid against the Palestinian people. It argues that partitioning the land of Palestine, which the Palestinian leadership acquiesced to, is a cornerstone of apartheid, and a legitimation of the Zionist movement. Rather than partition, the piece calls for a political strategy of decolonization that aims at dismantling the regime of apartheid that the Zionist movement instituted in Palestine in 1948.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.1080/0377919x.2022.2090210
M. Dajani
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Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.1080/0377919X.2022.2089504
Sherena Razek
of the social demographics and aspects of Campus in Camps, and from situating it more robustly within the broader efforts at decolonization in Palestine. It is also disappointing that the book relies primarily on the work of famous white Euro-American scholars for its theories. One wonders if locating all of the Palestine material in two chapters of the book sandwiched between five other chapters mainly concerned with Euro-American derived theories might reproduce some of the problems that the book seeks to address. The book’s strength is its use of philosophy of science to rethink what is one of the largest failed institutions of our times. The compelling reading of Campus in Camps offered in the second part of the book will be of special interest to JPS readers. In sum, this book is a fascinating and useful read for anyone seriously interested in decolonizing the university, particularly from a philosophical and/or practice perspective.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.1080/0377919x.2022.2090209
E. Fakhro, T. Baconi
Abstract This essay provides an overview of the growing convergence of interests between Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain, the joint signatories to the 2020 Abraham Accords. It argues that the two Gulf states increasingly view Israel as an attractive model to emulate in terms of the management of internal dissent and external security. It details how both sides are seeking to develop a joint regional security architecture that mitigates their shared concerns around a possible return by the United States to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA), as well as the Gulf states’ specific anxiety about a broader US drawdown in the region. The analysis highlights how this new framework built around a common securitized approach is also intended to further the objectives of the two Gulf monarchies to lead the course of regional affairs.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-27DOI: 10.1080/0377919X.2022.2050136
Norbert J. Scholz
Abstract 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 : 2022-04-26DOI: 10.1080/0377919X.2022.2040321
Haim Yacobi, E. Milner
Abstract This article discusses the challenges that the settlement process poses to Israeli property regimes, examining the ways that public apparatuses, specifically those related to urban planning, are creatively mobilized to address and mitigate such challenges. The article focuses on two case studies: the Palestinian village of Kamanneh in the Upper Galilee and the Ganey Aviv neighborhood of Lydda, one of Israel’s so-called mixed cities. Based on these case studies, the paper argues that the planning process’s technical and legal manipulations as well as the raw political power involved produce and reproduce the settler-colonial logic of ownership in land as a territorial and symbolic mechanism of control.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-19DOI: 10.1080/0377919x.2022.2040324
Umayyah Cable
Abstract This essay offers a genealogy of the phrase “compulsory Zionism” in order to illuminate its vexed and contradictory intellectual foundations, the ethical and political stakes of the discourse surrounding the phrase, and its accompanying racial project. Scholars of late have taken up the use of this phrase to signal how “common-sense” knowledge about Palestine and Israel is naturalized in ways that privilege Israel and subjugate Palestinian existence. However, I argue that the phrase is also useful for understanding how Palestine solidarity politics are micromanaged within transnational leftist social justice movements and academia.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-19DOI: 10.1080/0377919X.2022.2048607
Anna-Esther Younes
Palestinian American professor Sa’ ed Atshan and Israeli German American professor Katharina Galor’s book, The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians, tackles and wants to understand the complex histories and policies converging in Berlin through the triangulated ethnonational relationship between the Germans, Palestinians, and Israelis living there. The book grapples with the fact that Berlin is home to a large number of Israeli émigrés, while Germany is home to Europe’s largest Palestinian refugee population. The book presents such realities coexisting amid the backdrop of Germany’s unwavering pro-Israel policies as a paradox. Such exploration is compelling but would have been richer and more grounded had it been read alongside the literature on German colonialism, race, and empire politics. Unfortunately, most public decolonial critique, particularly by people of color, has been silenced in Germany, paving the way for The Moral Triangle to fill a gap that the authors call “groundbreaking” (p. 8). Both authors live and teach in the United States. Atshan is a sociocultural anthropologist of humanitarianism and Palestine studies, and Galor is a scholar of art history and Judaic studies. In the introduction both authors locate their expertise in the Middle East and elaborate on their own historical traumas, which are narrated as catalysts for their collaborative research in and on Berlin. It was especially the 2014 Israeli attack on Gaza that brought the authors together in an attempt to place “the human qualities of trust, collegiality, and friendship above national animosity” (p. 4). In this vein, the book aligns itself with both academic and nonacademic literature that narrates historical legacies of violence through the frameworks of memory and trauma. The book shines in its impressionistic and fast-paced reportage style. Galor and Atshan tap into narratives of perpetrators and victims, trauma and its afterlives, responsibility and reconciliation, morality, and memory. The book is subdivided into eleven short chapters, each of which can be read independently. Chapter titles range from “Trauma, Holocaust, Nakba” to “Germany and Migration” to “Racism, Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia” and finally to “Restorative Justice.” A vaguely defined discourse analysis, which is not “meant to signal a particularly established methodology” (p. 8), gives attention to media coverage and social media of the triangular relationship. The authors conducted around one hundred interviews with interlocutors they knew or found through personal connections and social media, using what they refer to as the “snowball method” (p. 7). This analysis is augmented with taxi driver commentaries and public events during their ethnography, including street photos from their strolls through the “Arab quarter” of Neukölln and the Israeli restaurants therein. However, the many details of everyday German repression, encapsulated in its antiPalestinian activities and its expandi
巴勒斯坦裔美国教授Sa ' ed Atshan和以色列裔德裔美国教授Katharina Galor的著作《道德三角:德国人、以色列人、巴勒斯坦人》，通过居住在柏林的德国人、巴勒斯坦人和以色列人之间的三角民族关系，探讨并试图理解在柏林汇聚的复杂历史和政策。这本书探讨了这样一个事实:柏林是大量以色列人的聚集地，而德国是欧洲最大的巴勒斯坦难民聚集地。在德国坚定不移的亲以政策的背景下，这些现实并存，这本书将其描述为一个悖论。这样的探索是引人注目的，但如果把它和关于德国殖民主义、种族和帝国政治的文献放在一起读，会更丰富、更有根据。不幸的是，大多数公开的非殖民化批评，尤其是有色人种的批评，在德国都被压制住了，这为《道德三角》填补了作者称之为“开创性”的空白铺平了道路(第8页)。两位作者都在美国生活和教学。Atshan是人道主义和巴勒斯坦研究领域的社会文化人类学家，Galor是艺术史和犹太研究领域的学者。在引言中，两位作者都将他们的专长定位在中东，并详细阐述了他们自己的历史创伤，这些创伤被描述为他们在柏林进行合作研究的催化剂。尤其是2014年以色列对加沙的袭击，将两位作者聚集在一起，试图将“信任、合作和友谊的人类品质置于民族仇恨之上”(第4页)。在这种脉络下，这本书与学术和非学术文献保持一致，通过记忆和创伤的框架叙述暴力的历史遗产。这本书的亮点在于它的印象主义和快节奏的报告文学风格。加洛尔和阿特珊深入探讨了肇事者和受害者、创伤及其后遗症、责任与和解、道德和记忆的故事。这本书被分成11个简短的章节，每个章节都可以独立阅读。章节标题从“创伤、大屠杀、Nakba”到“德国与移民”，再到“种族主义、反犹太主义、伊斯兰恐惧症”，最后到“恢复性司法”。一种定义模糊的话语分析，并非“意在表明一种特别确立的方法论”(第8页)，关注的是媒体报道和社会媒体的三角关系。作者通过个人关系和社交媒体对他们认识或发现的对话者进行了大约100次采访，使用了他们所谓的“雪球法”(第7页)。这种分析在他们的民族志中增加了出租车司机的评论和公共事件，包括他们在Neukölln的“阿拉伯区”和那里的以色列餐馆散步时的街头照片。然而，德国日常镇压的许多细节，浓缩在其反巴勒斯坦活动和不断扩大的军事工业综合体中，在这两部小说中都没有出现
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