Israel-Palestine

Omer Bartov is the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. His books include Hitler’s Army (1991), Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine (2007), and Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (2018).

• Introduction: Lands and Peoples: Attachment, Conflict, and ReconciliationOmer BartovPart I: Trauma and DisplacementChapter 1. The Political Theology of Eretz Yisra’el: The Nakba and the Hasidic Immigration to PalestineHannan HeverChapter 2. Western European “Philosemitism” and the Nakba in the 1950sG. Daniel CohenChapter 3.  “You Just Can’t Compare”: Holocaust Comparisons and Discourses of Israel/PalestineLital LevyChapter 4. International Human Rights Aspects of Repatriating Israeli Settlers from the West BankYaël RonenPart II: Redrawing SpaceChapter 5. Oil and the Origins of Middle Eastern SovereigntyRachel HavrelockChapter 6. Territory, Demography, and Effective Control: An Analysis of Israel’s Biospatial PoliticsYinon Cohen & Neve GordonChapter 7. Come to Netanya: A New Reading of Israel’s Planning HistoryNoah Hysler RubinChapter 8. Architecture and the Struggle over Geography: Revisiting the Arab Village in Israel/PalestineHaim Yacobi & Hadas ShadarPart III: Education and IdeologyChapter 9. Contested Pedagogy: Modern Hebrew Education and the Segregation of National Communities in Pre-State PalestineMiriam SzametChapter 10. The Biblical Borders between Theology and History: Israeli Schoolbook Maps, 1903-1967Orna VaadiaChapter 11. Zionist Civic Rituals as Nation-Building InstrumentsAvner Ben-AmosChapter 12. Rival Histories in a Deeply Divided Society: The Israeli CaseMajid Ibrahim Al-HajPart IV: Nationalism, Settler Colonialism, and DecolonizationChapter 13. Three Paradigms for Understanding the Israel/Palestine ConflictSam FleischhackerChapter 14. Thinking about State Demise: The Case of IsraelIan LustickChapter 15. Decolonizing Israel/Palestine: A Discourse or a Political Program?Ilan PappéChapter 16. What Would a Decolonized Archaeology of Israel/Palestine Look Like?Raphael GreenbergPart V: Future ScenariosChapter 17. Reinstating Apartheid or Stating the Obvious? 1948 Palestinians and Israel’s New Nation State LawNida ShoughryChapter 18. Palestinians in Israel: The Undesirable OthersSaid ZeedaniChapter 19. The Demography of ReturnSalman Abu SittaChapter 20. When Utopia Becomes Topia: Mapping the Future in Israel/PalestineDebby Farber & Umar al-GhubariAfterword: Between Talbiyeh and MeAlon Confino

“This interdisciplinary volume is an important contribution to the growing attempts to rethink Israel/Palestine and to identify new venues for decolonization and historical reconciliation. Focusing on attachment and belonging to the land, and aware of the colonial power asymmetries between the Palestinian Arabs and the Israeli Jews, Israel-Palestine: Lands and Peoples is essential reading for those interested in exploring new trends in the scholarship on this topic.” • Bashir Bashir, The Open University of Israel and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.“Israel-Palestine: Lands and Peoples represents a brave endeavor by Israeli and Jewish scholars to explore the deep currents of the Zionist-Palestinian conflict. It seriously deals with the profound importance of space, time, colonization, displacement and trauma for both nations. Guided by critical perspectives, this excellent multidisciplinary effort illuminates many hidden aspects of the transformation of the land, where Palestinians are still denied their historical rights and justice.” • Oren Yiftachel, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev