Zionism, Palestinian Nationalism and the Law

Steven E. Zipperstein, a former US federal prosecutor, is a Senior Fellow at the UCLA Center for Middle East Development and a Lecturer in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and the UCLA Global Studies program, and in the Department of History at UC Santa Barbara. Zipperstein is also a Visiting Proefssor of Law and Tel Aviv University, and is the author of Law and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Trials of Palestine (Routledge, 2020).

• Introduction Part I: Theoretical Framework 1. Framing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Part II: The London Conferences -- Zionism on Trial and the One-State Solution 2. Prelude to the London Conferences 3. The London Conferences 4. The White Paper 5. Appeal to the Permanent Mandates Commission 6. Assessment Part III: The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry -- British Policy on Trial and the No-State Solution 7. Enter America; Formation of the Anglo-American Committee 8. Committee Hearings 9. Deliberations and Verdict 10. The Morrison-Grady Plan; Britain's Attempt to Undermine the Verdict 11. Assessment Part IV: UNSCOP and the UN Ad Hoc Committee -- Palestinian Nationalism on Trial and the Two-State Solution 12. UNSCOP Hearings and Verdict 13. Ad Hoc Committee Hearings and Verdict 14. The General Assembly and the Two-State Solution 15. Assessment Part V: Legal Consequences and Implications 16. Legal Consequences of the Palestinian Rejection of Statehood Conclusion