Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by MULLEN Bill V.
Review of Gaza Faces History By Enzo Traverso Other Press, 2024, 127 pages, $15.99 paperbck.
JAMES BALDWIN ONCE wrote that the state of Israel was created out of “Western interests” and that Palestinians had long paid the price for Europe’s “guilty Christian conscience.”
Baldwin was (…)
, by RANCE Roland
Roland Rance explores the continuity between Trumps outrageous proposals for Gaza and the longterm approach of all currents of Zionism
Donald Trump’s proposal to remove all Palestinians from Gaza and turn the region into a beach resort has received near global condemnation. The objections (…)
, by BISHARAT Ghousoon, RAZ Adam
From sabotaging Oslo to funneling Qatari cash into Gaza, Bibi has spent his career bolstering Hamas to help perpetuate the conflict. Even after Oct. 7, argues historian Adam Raz, he’s still advancing the same strategy.
When Israeli historian and human rights activist Adam Raz set out to write (…)
, by Al-HAJJ SALEH Yassin
The complex challenge of Zionism demands an intellectual effort to comprehend it, which can begin with the separation of three historical issues
An Israeli soldier watches nationalists at Jerusalem’s Western Wall commemorate the taking of East Jerusalem in 1967. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP via Getty (…)
, by KHOURY Elias, PAPPE Ilan
On September 15, 2024, Elias Khoury, a giant of Lebanese political and literary life, died at the age of 76. Khoury was a renowned novelist and a deeply engaged political writer and thinker on Lebanese and Palestinian politics who contributed to MERIP throughout the years. In light of his (…)
, by REIFF Ben
Half a century after setting off a political earthquake from the impoverished streets of Jerusalem, the radical Mizrahi movement has been largely forgotten. A new book seeks to untangle their contested legacy.
“Israel’s Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation’s Founding Myth,” by (…)
, by SHATZ Adam
The State of Israel v. the Jews
by Sylvain Cypel, translated by William Rodarmor.
Other Press, 352 pp., £24, October 2022, 978 1 63542 097 5
Deux peuples pour un état?: Relire l’histoire du sionisme
by Shlomo Sand.
Seuil, 256 pp., £20, January, 978 2 02 154166 3
Our Palestine (…)
, by ALI Tariq, KHALIDI Rashid
Tariq Ali: Let’s start with the present, not just in the sense of the horrors being inflicted on Palestine right now, but the present as part of Palestine’s still-active past. The brutal Anglo-Zionist repression of the great Arab Revolt of 1936–39 was followed by the Nakba of 1948, the Six-Day (…)
, by ACHCAR Gilbert
In the aftermath of the Holocaust and the formation of Israel, Jews’ position in the Global North transformed from racialized minority into fully white members of “Judeo-Christian” society. As Gilbert Achcar shows in this essay, however, this assimilation into “super whiteness” relies on Jews (…)
, by MACK Eitay
Thousands of Israeli documents recently made available to the public reveal how, from the mid-1960s onward, Israel forged relations with Hindu nationalist parties in India – even though Israeli diplomats knew they were dealing with extremists driven by hatred of Muslims
Indian Prime Minister (…)
, by HASS Amira
The mini-state that disappointed: Answering Reader S., who asked why ’the strongest resistance’ emerged ’from the place where Israel canceled the occupation?’
Ariel Sharon surveying the Western Negev for places to relocate evacuees from Gaza settlements, 2005.Credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO
S., who (…)
, by ADERET Ofer, ZIMMERMANN Moshe
A pioneering Israeli scholar of German history, Prof. Moshe Zimmermann looks back to 1930s Europe in order to understand where Israel is headed
Photo: Zimmermann. Israel’s current government, he says, is a “kakistocracy” – meaning rule by the worst citizens. If there were rankings, Netanyahu (…)
, by RAHNEMA Saeed
If Al-Qaeda and ISIS were the indirect products of the policies of US imperialism, Hamas is a direct product of Israel. A glimpse into the painful history of 75 years of conflicts and confrontations between Israel and Palestinians helps one better understand the latest Hamas/Israeli fighting (…)
, by RAZ Adam
In seeking the historical origins of the October 7 debacle, we must go back to the decisions made by the premier a decade ago
Police face off with settlers refusing to leave a synagogue rooftop in the central Gaza Strip, August 2005.Credit: Yossi Zamir / GPO
Since the October 7 massacre, (…)
, by NASSAR Maha
The enclave abutting Israel has been described as the world’s ‘largest open-air prison.’ Conditions have deteriorated for the population there under a 16-year blockade.
The focus on conflict in the Middle East has again returned to the Gaza Strip, with Israel’s defense minister ordering a (…)
, by NASSAR Maha
A famous gesture kick-started hopes of peace in the Middle East. But today, the idea of a two-state solution seems further away than ever before.
On Sept. 13, 1993, the world watched as Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat shook (…)
, by RABBANI Mouin
On 13 September 1993 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization Yasir Arafat signed the Oslo Accords at a White House ceremony officiated by United States President Bill Clinton. To mark the thirtieth anniversary of this agreement, and take stock (…)
, by SOULIER Édouard
The Oslo Accords were a historic event. But nearly thirty years on, no one uses them to talk about the situation in Palestine. There is no longer any talk of the “peace process” or the “quartet”, as was the norm in the 1990s and 2000s, so far have things moved away from the hopes raised by these (…)
, by MITRALIAS Yorgos
What would you say if the notorious racist and anti-semite prime minister of Hungary Victor Orban accused Einstein of … anti-semitism? And Hanna Arendt as well? Together with the most iconic author of Holocaust literature Primo Levi? Unimaginable and unrealistic? Not at all. On the contrary, (…)
, by PETERSON Sarah
On the 73rd anniversary of the Nakba (‘Catastrophe’), Sarah Peterson reviews the tortured history of modern Palestine.
Nakba followed the UN partition of Palestine on 29 November 1947, the war of 1947-9, the withdrawal of British troops on 14 May 1948, and the declaration of the state of (…)
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