Researching Palestine
Visions and Strategies for Palestine’s Future
After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine by Call Number: Request via Interlibrary Loan/WorldCatISBN: 9780863568169Publication Date: 2012"Nothing will change until we are capable of imagining a radically different future. By bringing together many of the clearest and most ethical thinkers about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this book gives us the intellectual tools we need to do just that. Courageous and exciting."-Naomi Klein 'After Zionism' brings together some of the world's leading thinkers on the Middle East question to dissect the century-long conflict between Zionism and the Palestinians, and to explore possible forms of a one-state solution.Time is running out for the two-state solution because of the unending and permanent Jewish colonization of Palestinian land. Although deep mistrust exists on both sides of the conflict, growing numbers of Palestinians and Israelis, Jews and Arabs are working together to forge a different future.Whatever the political solution may be, Palestinian and Israeli lives are intertwined, enmeshed, irrevocably. This daring and timely collection includes essays by Omar Barghouti, John Mearsheimer, Ilan Pappe, Sara Roy, and Jonathan Cook. Antony Loewenstein is an Australian journalist, activist, and blogger. He is the author of two best-selling books, 'My Israel Question' and 'The Blogging Revolution'. He has written for 'The Guardian', 'The Nation', The Huffington Post, and 'Haaretz'. Ahmed Moor is a Palestinian American journalist, blogger, and activist. He has written for the 'Los Angeles Times', The Huffington Post, 'The Guardian', and 'Al Jazeera English'. He is currently pursuing a master's degree in public policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State by Call Number: Online via JSTORISBN: 9780745343396Publication Date: 2021"An extremely convincing and persuasive argument that the only conceivable future for justice and peace necessitates a process of decolonization and equal rights for all."--Electronic Intifada For decades we have spoken of the "Israel-Palestine conflict," but what if our understanding of the issue has been wrong all along? Here is a detailed explanation of how the concept of settler colonialism provides a clearer understanding of the Zionist movement's project to establish a Jewish state in Palestine, displacing the Palestinian Arab population and marginalizing its cultural presence. Jeff Halper, head of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and author of An Israeli in Palestine, argues that the only way out of a colonial situation is decolonization: the dismantling of Zionist structures of domination and control and their replacement by a single democratic state, in which Palestinians and Israeli Jews forge a new civil society and a shared political community. To show how this can be done, Halper uses the 10-point program of the One Democratic State Campaign as a guide for thinking through the process of decolonization to its post-colonial conclusion. Topics include: *How Does Zionist Settler Colonialism Work? *The Three Cycles of Zionist Expansion *Hasbara: The Management of Legitimacy *A Plan of Decolonization *Inching Toward Decolonization *Forms of Palestinian Resistance and Agency *Strategy: how Do We Get There? *And much more! Halper's unflinching reframing will empower activists fighting for the rights of the Palestinians and democracy for all. He says, "But this is not a book about settler colonialism or Zionism per se. It is a book about summoning power and decolonization, about dismantling a settler regime and replacing it with something more equitable."
From Shared Life to Co-Resistance in Historic Palestine by Call Number: DS126 .S84 2018 and onlineISBN: 9781783489633Publication Date: 2017How do we contribute to the decolonisation of Palestine? In what ways can we divest from settler arrangements in the present-day? Exploring the Zionist takeover of Palestine as a settler colonial case, this book argues that in studying the elimination of native life in Palestine, the loss of Arab-Jewish shared life cannot be ignored. Muslims, Christians, and Jews, shared a life in Ottoman Palestine and in a different way during British rule. The attempt to eliminate native life involved the destruction of Arab society - its cultural hegemony and demographic superiority - but also the racial rejection of Arab-Jewish sociabilities, of shared life. Thus the settlerist process of dispossession of the Arabs was complemented with the destruction of the social and cultural infrastructure that made Arab-Jewish life a historical reality. Both operations formed Israeli polity. Can this understanding contribute to present-day Palestinian resistance and a politics of decolonisation? In this book, the authors address this question by exploring how the study of elimination of shared life can inform Arab-Jewish co-resistance as a way of defying Israel's Zionist regime. Above and beyond opposing an unacceptable state of affairs, this book engages with past and present to discuss possible futures.
One State: The Only Democratic Future for Palestine-Israel by Call Number: Online via JSTORISBN: 9780745348315Publication Date: 2023'An intelligent, sensitive writer'--Financial Times 'Her bold vision of a single egalitarian state is the only way to break the current log jam'--Nur Masalha, author of Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History In 1948, Ghada Karmi and her family in Jerusalem were among the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who were exiled during the creation of the state of Israel. She has since become one of the most vocal proponents of the single democratic state in Palestine-Israel. In this book, Karmi powerfully argues that a democratic one-state settlement is the best possible route to a just future for all concerned, including Palestinian refugees. Uniting the land - from the Mediterranean Sea to the River Jordan - and allowing the Palestinian right of return is the only way to end the exclusive and antidemocratic character of the Israeli state. Ghada Karmi was born in Jerusalem. Forced from her home during the Nakba, she later trained as a Doctor of Medicine at Bristol University. She established the first British-Palestinian medical charity in 1972 and was an Associate Fellow at the Royal Institute for International Affairs. Her previous books include the best-selling memoir In Search of Fatima.
Our Vision of Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders & Intellectuals Speak Out by Call Number: JQ1830.A58 O87 2022ISBN: 9781949762440Publication Date: 2022Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders & Intellectuals Speak Out aims to challenge several strata of the current Palestine discourse that have led to the present dead end: the American pro-Israel political discourse, the Israeli colonial discourse, the Arab discourse of purported normalization, and the defunct discourse of the Palestinian factions. None promote justice, none have brought resolution; none bode well for any of the parties involved. Here, an alternative Palestinian view of liberation and decolonization is provided by engaged Palestinian leaders and intellectuals, those who been actively involved in generating an ongoing Palestinian discourse on liberation, taking into account the parameters of their struggle as it now stands. Drawing on their own remarkable personal experiences and successes -- as archaeologists, artists, authors, community leaders, educators, filmmakers, historians, human rights activists, journalists, lawyers, spiritual leaders, political prisoners, and the like -- they address what now, what next, is to be done, in a manner that reflects not only Palestinian aspirations, but their view of what is possible. 'Liberation' is a term that was dropped from the official Palestinian lexicon simply because it was incompatible with the US-championed political discourse, but it has resurfaced here because without its justice dimensions, there can be no peace. Now that the international community is able to see that Oslo, along with the 'two-state solution' model, has irreversibly failed, the paradigmatic void has opened space for the articulation of new possibilities. Our Vision for Liberation embraces this opportunity to introduce a new Palestinian discourse, one that is able to address current challenges and obstacles to Palestinian rights and freedom, and provide diverse paths, all leading forward.
- Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State by Call Number: Online via JSTORISBN: 9780745343396Publication Date: 2021"An extremely convincing and persuasive argument that the only conceivable future for justice and peace necessitates a process of decolonization and equal rights for all."--Electronic Intifada For decades we have spoken of the "Israel-Palestine conflict," but what if our understanding of the issue has been wrong all along? Here is a detailed explanation of how the concept of settler colonialism provides a clearer understanding of the Zionist movement's project to establish a Jewish state in Palestine, displacing the Palestinian Arab population and marginalizing its cultural presence. Jeff Halper, head of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and author of An Israeli in Palestine, argues that the only way out of a colonial situation is decolonization: the dismantling of Zionist structures of domination and control and their replacement by a single democratic state, in which Palestinians and Israeli Jews forge a new civil society and a shared political community. To show how this can be done, Halper uses the 10-point program of the One Democratic State Campaign as a guide for thinking through the process of decolonization to its post-colonial conclusion. Topics include: *How Does Zionist Settler Colonialism Work? *The Three Cycles of Zionist Expansion *Hasbara: The Management of Legitimacy *A Plan of Decolonization *Inching Toward Decolonization *Forms of Palestinian Resistance and Agency *Strategy: how Do We Get There? *And much more! Halper's unflinching reframing will empower activists fighting for the rights of the Palestinians and democracy for all. He says, "But this is not a book about settler colonialism or Zionism per se. It is a book about summoning power and decolonization, about dismantling a settler regime and replacing it with something more equitable."
- One State: The Only Democratic Future for Palestine-Israel by Call Number: Online via JSTORISBN: 9780745348315Publication Date: 2023'An intelligent, sensitive writer'--Financial Times 'Her bold vision of a single egalitarian state is the only way to break the current log jam'--Nur Masalha, author of Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History In 1948, Ghada Karmi and her family in Jerusalem were among the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who were exiled during the creation of the state of Israel. She has since become one of the most vocal proponents of the single democratic state in Palestine-Israel. In this book, Karmi powerfully argues that a democratic one-state settlement is the best possible route to a just future for all concerned, including Palestinian refugees. Uniting the land - from the Mediterranean Sea to the River Jordan - and allowing the Palestinian right of return is the only way to end the exclusive and antidemocratic character of the Israeli state. Ghada Karmi was born in Jerusalem. Forced from her home during the Nakba, she later trained as a Doctor of Medicine at Bristol University. She established the first British-Palestinian medical charity in 1972 and was an Associate Fellow at the Royal Institute for International Affairs. Her previous books include the best-selling memoir In Search of Fatima.
Is the Two-State Solution Already Dead? by Call Number: EbookISBN: 9780875867946Publication Date: 2010Books on the Palestinian conflict tend to focus on one historical period and blame one side or another for the Palestinians' predicament. This work fills the need for a source that tells a comprehensive story of the conflict since the nineteenth century, when Zionism was conceived in Europe and Palestine was home for Arab majority and very small Jewish minority. It reviews and analyzes the histories of Arab nationalism, Zionism, Palestinian nationalism, and the roles played by Jordan and Egypt in the Palestinian conflict over the years.
- Future Vision of the Palestinian Arabs in IsraelPublished in 2006, by the National Committee for the Heads of the Arab Local Authorities in Israel, composed of prominent Arab citizens of Israel, who wrote: "the project presented by this document is a continuation of our struggle towards crystallizing clear strategic future vision for the Arab Palestinians in Israel. The project aims at answering the question, “who are we and what do we want for our society?” In order to obtain this goal, the future vision will be followed by tangible practical steps and a concrete action plan with specific goals. We recommend such document to be a public reference. This document includes all streams of the Arab society, as this vision is an independent Palestinian rhetoric. We hope this future vision would yield unity between different and sometimes contradicting viewpoints and beliefs on the basis of our national collective principles and interests."
- A Land for All"A Land for All is a shared movement of Israelis and Palestinians who believe that the way towards peace, security and stability for all passes through two independent states, Israel and Palestine, within a joint framework allowing both peoples to live together and apart. Israeli-Jews and Arab-Palestinians are heavily intertwined on both side of the Green Line and therefore building walls between them is neither realistic nor desirable. Recognizing that both Jews and Palestinians are part of the same shared homeland, and respecting their equal individual and national rights, A Land for All provides pragmatic and viable solutions to the obstacles that have stymied prior negotiations, moving us from a paradigm of separation towards a future based on power sharing and shared interests."
- One Democratic State CampaignThe One Democratic State Campaign is a Palestinian-led initiative that calls for the end of the colonial Zionist regime and strives for the establishment of a single democratic state in historic Palestine, based on political, social, economic and cultural justice, in which Palestinians and Israeli Jews live in equality.
- Palestinians in the United States Declare that Freedom is the Future"a vision of justice grounded in Palestinian demands for freedom and self-determination, our right to return to our homeland, the space to thrive, and our right to resist for the better world we know is possible."
- The Vision Document of the Return CouncilThe Return Council is a forum of Israeli Jews who support the right of the Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons to return, and who act to promote the realization of this right. The Council is not identified with any political party, and is open to all Israelis who believe in realizing the right of return.
- Visualizing Justice for AllVisioning about Palestine's future by a coalition composed of US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR), Adalah Justice Project (AJP), MPower Change, Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) Palestine Working Group, Eyewitness Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace Action (JVP Action), & Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy (PIPD)
- Visualizing PalestineVisualizing Palestine (VP) was established in 2012, and is dedicated to using data and research to visually communicate Palestinian experiences to provoke narrative change. VP envisions a liberated future for Palestinians in a world free from oppression.
The Gaza Catastrophe, Part 4: What Comes Next? (June 4, 2024)
Foundation for Middle East Peace hosted panel that examined the prospects for reconstruction and governance in Gaza as well as implications of the ongoing crisis for internal Palestinian politics and the future of the Palestinian national movement. Panelists: Abdelhadi Alijl (Social & Political Scientist), Nour Odeh (Political Activist), Mouin Rabbani (Jaddaliya)
One State: The Only Democratic Future for Palestine-Israel | Ghada Karmi. Book Launch. (June 13, 2023)
In her latest book, the acclaimed Palestinian author, Ghada Karmi, argues that the 'peace process' that has favoured the two-state solution for more than forty years has now been internationally exposed as masking the expansion of Israel's apartheid regime. Seventy-five years ago, Ghada Karmi and her family in Jerusalem were among the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who were exiled during the Nakba. She has since become one of the most vocal proponents of the single democratic state in Palestine-Israel. In her new book, Karmi powerfully argues that this is the best possible settlement for the Palestinians, including the refugees; imagining a single secular state in historic Palestine, all of whose inhabitants would enjoy the same rights.
A way forward for Palestine-Israel: how to stop war now...and tomorrow. (February 21, 2024)
Dr. Rula Hardal, Dr. Yael Berda, and Mushon Zer-Aviv from A Land for All: Two States One Homeland. Hosted by Yes Men's Andy Bichlbaum and Steve Lambert from the Center for Artistic Activism.
“Our Vision for Liberation.” A talk with Ilan Pappé and Ramzy Baroud. (November 29, 2022)
Casa Árabe and the UNESCO Chair on Conflict Resolution at the University of Cordoba have organized this talk with Ilan Pappé and Ramzy Baroud, co-editors of the book Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders & Intellectuals Speak Out. “Liberation” is a term that was dropped from the official Palestinian lexicon simply because it was incompatible with the political discourse advocated by Washington, but it has resurfaced in the recent work co-edited by Ilan Pappé and Ramzy Baroud, because without including justice-based dimensions, there can be no peace. Now that the international community is witnessing the failure of the Oslo Accords, along with the “two-state solution” model, the paradigmatic vacuum has opened up space for the articulation of new possibilities.
- “A Palestinian Political Perspective on Gaza’s Future.”Jaber, Samer. The New Arab, January 31, 2024.
- “A Paradigm Shift from Two-State to One-State Solution.”Hassassian, Manuel. 2019. Palestine-Israel Journal of Politics, Economics and Culture 24 (2): 120–28.
