Archive for the ‘Israel/Palestine’ Category
‘In many parts of Israel, imported plants have crowded out native species’, Haaretz reported yesterday. “Many years ago, eucalyptus trees were planted in the Dan reserve and proliferated rapidly,” Dr. Didi Kaplan, the authority’s ecologist for the northern region, explained yesterday. “They are hindering the development of the reserve’s natural vegetation, among other things by […]
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Dan Freeman-Maloy, ‘Israeli state power and its liberal alibis’, Race & Class 52, 3 (2011). This article explores the tension between Israeli state power and its presentation to the West in ostensibly liberal terms. The historical dynamics of metropolitan sponsorship of Zionist settler colonialism are briefly discussed before focusing on the ways in which the […]
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Andrew Markus and Moshe Semyonov (ed.), Immigration and Nation Building: Australia and Israel Compared (Edward Elgar Publishing 2010). Contents: Introduction 1. Demography – Trends and Composition Karin Amit, Sergio Della Pergola and Allan Borowski 2. Immigration Laws Na’ama Carmi and Susan Kneebone 3. Integration into the Labor Market of Host Societies Yitzhak Haberfeld and Anne […]
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fire
In the early morning hours of 29 December 2010, settlers set fire to a family’s dwelling in Susiya village.
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PAST IS PRESENT: SETTLER COLONIALISM IN PALESTINE 7th Annual Conference 5- 6 March | Brunei Gallery | School of Oriental and African Studies – London organised by SOAS Palestine Society and hosted by the London Middle East Institute For over a century, Zionism has subjected Palestine and Palestinians to a structural and violent form of […]
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Martin Shaw and Omer Bartov, ‘The question of genocide in Palestine, 1948: an exchange between Martin Shaw and Omer Bartov’, Journal of Genocide Research 12, 3 (2010) Editors introduction: The historical sociologist Martin Shaw was asked, as a genocide scholar rather than a specialist on Israel-Palestine, to contribute to an edited book that examined that […]
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Gary Fields, ‘Ex-Communicated: Historical Reflections on Enclosure Landscapes in Palestine’, Radical History Review 108 (2010) “Ex-Communicated” tells a story about enclosure on the Palestinian landscape through photographic images that reference themes from the enclosures in early modern England and highlight the historically long-standing interplay of power and space. Using Michel Foucault’s spatial notion of power […]
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Actually placing “settlers” and “colonialism” in the same analytical field required overcoming a number of conceptual blockages. It took decades. The nineteenth century – the century of the “settler revolution” (see Belich 2009) – did not think that they could be compounded. Indeed the settler revolution had cleaved the two apart: Marx, who engaged […]
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Correspondence on the stance of Australia’s ‘progressive’ Overland magazine, reproduced on the blog of Antony Loewenstein. 20/4/10 Dear members of Overland Editorial Board, We are writing to express our grave concern about your journal’s unbalanced coverage of Israeli-Palestinian issues in recent years. We all strongly respect Overland’s tradition of providing a forum for free and open […]
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