...Ella Shohat Ella Shohat 2003 Rupture and Return ZIONIST DISCOURSE AND THE STUDY OF ARAB JEWS Eurocentric and Zionist norms of scholarship have had dire consequences Ella Shohat...

... was not entirely disrupted: the echoes of the life around the camps were not entirely silenced in the camps; rather, the camps resounded the world. The understanding of both camps in their sharp differences is at issue in the essay—Communist against Jew, Muslim against Judaic and Zionist, Asian against European...

..., Summer 2006. © 2006 by Duke University Press ences without, however, erasing difference itself: “Arab” or Palestinian no longer appears in opposition to “Jew”; neither Jew nor Palestinian vanishes into the other. It is this keeping...

... Ghetto.” Du Bois there observes that what he had learned in Warsaw was not so much something about the Jew as a new insight into the history of the “American Negro,” namely, that “the problem of slavery, emancipation, and caste in the United States...

...: searching for a place in the Western world and trying to define its rela- illustrates Edward tionship to the Orient, a process that requires the country to reexamine its ties to its historic others — Jews and Moors, two peoples who now have Said’s argument their own states and nationalisms. After...

... the bad fortune to be defined as a Jew.”11 Note how Sarkozy’s invocation of “luck” (the “bad Social Text 97 • Winter 2008 9 9 fortune to be defined as a Jew”) evacuates the agency of both perpetrators...

... inhabitants of Palestine, and its militantly oppressive discrimi- nation between Jews and non-Jews.”1 Almost a quarter century after Said’s observations, we feel compelled to question their continuing relevance. More than two decades...

... were outraged that rocks had fallen on Jewish worship- pers. The New York Times reported that while Jews were usually allowed by Muslims to visit the site, most Orthodox rabbis prohibit entry into it because of its extreme sacredness. Sharon asserted the legality of his visit, declaring “Arabs have...

... hatred toward Jews,30 a small kernel of French anticolonial historians and activists, including most centrally Maxime Rodinson, argued that Israel was a colonial state, citing as evidence its expansionist ideology and its settlement (in French...

..., and the displacement of its people from their lands to provide a state for European Jews. From the very beginning, therefore, the problem has been transnational, involving diverse populations, nation-states, and imperial powers, especially since...

... inhabitants, as mainstream Zionist leaders increasingly called for by the 1920s and 1930s. This vision came to be known as “binationalism,” and its proponents endeavored to forge cooperative ventures between Arabs and Jews in this boundlessly symbolic country. 3 Though more chauvinist elements within...

..., Haiti . Updated ed. New York : Knopf Doubleday , 2015 . Darwish Mahmoud . Mural . Translated by Hammami Rema and Berger John . New York : Verso , 2017 . Deutscher Isaac . “ The Wandering Jew as Thinker and Revolutionary .” Universities and Left Review , no. 4...

.... A fun- damentalist Manichean discourse projects a righteous East pitted against a corrupt and infidel West. Bin Ladenist discourse is a demonizing dis- course that turns all Jews, Christians, Buddhists, and even Muslims who do not share his interpretation of Islam into infidels worthy of death...

... One need go no further than Fanon’s conceptualization of black phobogenesis as related to Europe’s phobic response to the Jew. Fanon writes that “the Jew is attacked in his religious identity, his history, his race, and his relations with his ancestors and descendants; every time a Jew is sterilized...

... response titled “Never Again? Zionism and the Holocaust.” Describing his dilemma as both a Marxist and a Jew, the author Ronald Aronson applauded Social Text for publishing Said’s “moving and beauti- ful account,” seeing the publication...

... “America” is and what “Arab,” “Jew,” or “Iranian” is and what “women” and “men” are all about. And, as we know, that kind of essentialist discourse tends to take precedence over analysis of power relations. I want to insist that the concept of relationality should not be confused with cultural...

... representation in Israel. 5. Much more personal interaction in a vertical status hierarchy shaped South African race relations, compared with the more hor- izontal social distance between Jews and Palestinians. Paternalism...

... Immigration’: Ronit Matalon, Jacqueline Kahanoff, and the Impetus of Levantinism.” Her manuscript “In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination” examines the relation- ship between the names “Arab” and “Jew” in contemporary Jewish and Arab literary texts. Iveta Jusová...

... grounds are used for residential and commercial purposes, or as warehouses.”7 The students stood outside the entrance to the hos- pital and peered in. As the students listened to al-­Jundi bear witness to his father’s escape from the massacre at the site of the crime, the Hasidic Jews who live...

.... A few months before 9/11, a small group of Indian Americans joined the annual Salute to Israel parade on Fifth Avenue in New York City. A month later, in April, a group of Jews joined some Indians outside the United...