Hagar Kotef, The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020).
Adam Shatz, The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon (London: Head of Zeus, 2024).
Mahmood Mamdani, Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities (Cambridge and London: Belknap Press, 2020).
Jonny Steinberg, Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage (London: William Collins, 2023).

Excerpt: In her book The Colonizing Self, Israeli political theorist Hagar Kotef recalls overhearing a conversation at a café in a bourgeois left-leaning neighbourhood of northern Tel Aviv in 2012. The Israeli army had been engaged in a war on Gaza at the time that killed over 150 Palestinians and displaced hundreds of families. She describes two people sitting at separate tables who end up sharing a newspaper and a conversation. At some point they conclude, in her paraphrase, that ‘if the world blames us for committing crimes against humanity in Gaza we might as well commit genocide and get it all over with’ (182). Kotef notes that they did not seem to know one another until their chance encounter in the café, as if to underscore the banality of Israeli genocidal intent vis-à-vis Palestinians such that it could furnish the shared ground for imagined community between strangers.