Israel, Palestine and the Politics of Race

Yasmeen Abu-Laban is Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Politics of Citizenship and Human Rights in the Department of Political Science, University of Alberta. Abigail B. Bakan is Professor in the Department of Social Justice Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto.

• AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionPart One: Social Sciences and the Israel/Palestine Racial Contract1. The Idea of Israel and the Absence of Palestine: Limits and Possibilities for Scholarship2. The Racial Contract and Israel/Palestine3. Israel/Palestine from Local to Global: Palestine in the Post 9/11 EraPart Two: Global Politics and the Israel/Palestine Racial Contract4. The Paradox of the United Nations: Human Rights, Israel and Palestine5. Indigenous Palestine: Contested Origin Stories and the UN Declaration for the Rights of Indigenous People6. Global Civil Society and "United Nations from Below": The BDS Movement7. Israel's Rebranding Campaign and the Politics of Gender8. Environmental Racism and Contested Territory: Land, Water and Air in Israel/Palestine9. Israel/Palestine and the apartheid analysis: Toward a one-state solution? Conclusion: Global Response to the Israel/Palestine Racial Contract: BDS from South Africa to PalestineEpilogue: Towards a Politics of Solidarity