Confronting Zionism
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Drawing on global anti-colonial movements, Noura Erakat and John Reynolds demonstrate that justice in Palestine cannot be realized without confronting the problem of Zionism
For over one hundred years, Palestinians have struggled for liberation in their homeland. Confronting Zionism takes direct analytical aim at the ideology and institutional structures animating Israel’s brutal rule over Palestinian lives.
With cutting precision and comprehensive evidence, Noura Erakat and John Reynolds argue that Zionism as an ideology is inherently settler colonial, racially supremacist, and ultimately genocidal. Tracing the history of the establishment of Israel, the development of its apartheid institutions, and the damning failure of the Oslo Peace Process, Confronting Zionism provides the concept and tools for understanding the horrors unfolding in Palestine today.
As legal scholars, Erakat and Reynolds also provide a clear-eyed assessment of the role of international law, in a world where its usefulness is increasingly in question. At this crucial historical juncture, Confronting Zionism uplifts the Palestinian intellectual tradition to argue that decolonization predicated on restitution, reparation, and the return of refugees remains the only just way forward.
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About Noura Erakat
Noura Erakat is Professor of Africana Studies and Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press). She is also co-founding editor of Jadaliyya and an editorial board member of the Journal of Palestine Studies as well as Human Geography. Noura has served as Legal Counsel for a Congressional Subcommittee in the US House of Representatives, as Legal Advocate for the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Refugee and Residency Rights, and as national organizer of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. She is a frequent commentator on CBS News, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, Fox News, the BBC, and NPR, among others. Her writings have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Nation, Al Jazeera, and the Boston Review.
John Reynolds teaches at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He is the author of the award-winning Empire, Emergency and International Law (Cambridge University Press) and an editor of the Third World Approaches to International Law Review journal and website. His research and writing covers questions of international law and colonialism, racism/apartheid, states of emergency, and political economy.
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