... A G A I N S T the D A Y Esmat Elhalaby and Maya Wind Palestinian Liberation and Zionist Ideology at the Western University The destruction of Palestinian higher education has been a key objective of Israel s war on Gaza from the beginning. On October 11, 2023, Israeli fighter jets bombed the Islamic...

...Ilan Pappé This essay compares the Zionist movement with other settler colonialist movements in Palestine and West Africa. The historical context, the formative years, the ideological infrastructure, the symbolic world, and activities on the ground are examined in three cases: the Zionist movement...

...Lena Meari This article investigates Palestinian-Zionist colonial relations from the perspective of the interrogation encounter between Palestinian munadilin (strugglers) in prison and their interrogators from the Israeli security agency during the past forty years of Zionist settler colonization...

... native peoples. In the early twentieth century, Horace Kallen, John Dewey, Louis Brandeis, and others attempted to “naturalize” the increasing diversity of (European) immigration to the United States at the same time that they argued for “Americanizing” support for Zionist settlement. Kallen, Dewey...

... the Holocaust has been used to shore up connections between Zionist and Jewish history. Finally, the essay turns to recent intellectual and media controversies attending comparisons between Israeli and South African apartheid, focusing on the attacks on Jimmy Carter's Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid...

...Dov Michaeli This essay analyzes the impasses of the Israeli mainstream and non-Zionist Left. It suggests that, given these impasses and the political strategies available in current discourse, BDS stands out as a viable form of opposition to the occupation. © 2015 Duke University Press 2015...

... a Jewish state, and a Jewish state means Jewish supremacy in part (Zionist Left3) or in the whole (Zionist Right) of Palestine. More and more Jews are willing to admit that their state cannot or should not be fully democratic.4 During the last days of his campaign, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...

... beyond borders” may be a new theoretical speculation, but it has been a time-honored practice from the very conception of the Palestinian struggle. At the center of the Zionist occupation and continued theft of Palestine is the construction of a garrison state to serve the imperial interests...

..., the politicide ‘‘did not begin with Ariel Sharon’s election. Rather, it is a consequence of the war and, partially, of the very nature and roots of the Zionist movement, and has been supported and reinforced by a series...

.... But the Jewish community in Israel, or what was called Palestine until 1947, was very small, not even owning much land. The Jewish national movement, better known as the Zionist move­ ment, acted in three ways to acquire land in Palestine. First, through diplomatic negotiations, the Jews gained the recognition...

... from the founding of the Zionist project. However, all this is reduced to opinions, in stark contrast with the lack of critical assessment of the propaganda being spewed by the lobby groups of the Zionist entity and the industrial capitalists and oil industry alike. UNCORRECTED PROOFS 436 The South...

..., and an empress. A more con­ temporary organization, the Stern Group or Lehi (Lohmey Heruth Israel), a militant Zionist splinter group in Palestine between 1940 and 1948, pursued a strategy of terror that included two spectacular assassinations, that of Lord Moyne, British Minister of State in Cairo, in 1944...

... to travel with the Jewish underground from Europe to Palestine following the end of World War II; he saw his book on that odyssey used by Zionist leaders to document the travails of their European brethren, received a medal for his efforts from the Haganah, the Palestinian Jews self-defense organization...

... if the Zionists were depicted as settlers. However, the debate was prompted when scholars started to study one particular group of Palestinians through the lens of indigeneity: the Bedouins of the Negev (see, e.g., Amara, Abu-Saad, and Yiftachel 2012; in particular, Stavenhagen and Amara 2012). The main...

..., in a Russian translation from Hebrew. ‘‘Motti’’ Olmert was not only a member of the ‘‘Chinese family’’ of the asso- ciation but also a well-known personality in Israel. Born in Samara (Russia), he grew up in Harbin, where he was one of the founders of the local Betar, the youth movement of the Zionist...

... a restructuring of the Zionist state. Huge Le Page thought it was time for Israelis to acknowledge the real, popular resistance and to learn its lesson. Marcel Liebman, then a distinguished professor at the University of Brussels, invited the reader to distinguish between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. According...

... of armed urban resistance to the Germans during the Second World War. Edelman was a member of the Bund, a secular Jew- ish labor socialist movement, and an anti-Zionist who also later fought in the general Warsaw...

... . The Zionist Masquerade: The Birth of the Anglo-Zionist Alliance 1914–1918 . New York : Palgrave Macmillan . Shlimon Arbella Bet . 2013 . “The Politics and Ideology of Urban Development in Iraq's Oil City.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 33 , no. 1 : 26 – 40...

... aairs, Arthur Balfour, was incorpo- rated into the text of the Palestine mandate, converting that statement from one of “intention into a legally binding obligation” (Kattan 2008: xxxi). This brief declaration positioned the nascent Zionist movement above the Arabs of Palestine and became...

... and elect 10 new executives were held there, as were rallies. One of the largest rallies, attended by more than people, was organized in April on the ini- tiative of a Harbin city committee of a Zionist organization to protest...