Midnight on the Mavi Marmara

Moustafa Bayoumi: Mustafa Bayoumi is an associate professor of English at Brooklyn College, the City University of New York. He is co-editor of The Edward Said Reader and the author of the American Book Award-winning How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America (Penguin, 2008)

• IntroductionMoustafa Bayoumi1. ON BOARD THE SHIPSFlotilla Raid Diary: “A man is shot. I am seeing it happen.”Henning MankellWhat Happened to Us Is Happening in GazaIara LeeDefenders of the Mavi MarmaraKen O’KeefeFrom '48 to GazaLubna MasarwaThe Price of Defying IsraelPaul LarudeeKidnapped by Israel, Forsaken by BritainJamal ElshayyalFirst, They Appeared As ShadowsSümeyye ErtekinAn Act of State TerrorismKevin OvendenWhy do we participate in the Freedom Flotilla?Haneen ZoabiPoem: What Is Not AllowedRichard Tillinghast2. UNDERSTANDING THE ATTACKShip of FoolsGideon LevyThe Day the World Became GazaAli AbunimahIsrael Reveals Its True FaceAhdaf SoueifIsrael’s Security Cannot Come at Any PriceBen SaulThe Real Threat Aboard the Freedom FlotillaNoam ChomskyThree ReflectionsRashid KhalidiThe Gaza Occupation and Siege Are IllegalGeorge BisharatIsrael’s Anti-1967 MomentAdam Horowitz and Philip Weiss“You Will Have No Protection”Alice WalkerList of Items Prohibited/Permitted into the Gaza StripGisha.org3. THE BLOCKADE OF GAZAGaza: Treading on ShardsSara RoyNot by Cement AloneAmira HassDigging Behind the Gaza BlockadeNadia HijabIsrael Itself May Be Among the Victims of Its Own PathologyEyad Al Sarraj1,000 DaysRaji Sourani4. INSIDE ISRAELLexicon of Most Misleading Terms in Israel/Palestine ConflictAmira Hass“No Citizenship Without Loyalty!”Neve GordonIsrael’s Commando ComplexDoron RosenblumThe Deadly Closing of the Israeli MindIlan PappéIsrael’s Loss of Moral ImaginationHenry SiegmanThe Myth of Israeli MoralityLamis AndoniA History of ImpunityYousef MunayyerThe Israeli Media’s Flotilla FailMax BlumenthalNo Villa in the JungleRaja Shehadeh5. OLD FRIENDS, NEW THINKINGTurkey After the FlotillaMurat DagliSmearing the IHHMartha B. CohenVictimhood, Aggression, and TribalismGlenn GreenwaldSchumer’s SippenhaftungJuan ColeDefending the Indefensible: A How-To GuideStephen M. WaltTreat Israel Like IranStephen KinzerThe Victim That Is IsraelArun GuptaNo Direction HomeDaniel LubanSomething’s Got to GiveAlia MalekEver Fewer HosannasNorman Finkelstein6. PALESTINE ON OUR MINDSInternational Solidarity Under AttackMike MarquseeOur South Africa MomentOmar BarghoutiExpediting the Day of LiberationAdam Shapiro

"This event had shocked the conscience of much of the world and that it needed to be understood with testimony, context, and analysis, things a book can provide perhaps better than any other medium."—Editor Mustafa Bayoumi, interviewed in the Chronicle of Higher Education"A retelling of the attack by eyewitnesses, and analysis of the blockade and the conflict in the region."—New York Times