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{"title":"Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War","authors":"Areej Sabbagh-Khoury","doi":"10.1080/0377919X.2022.2132791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0377919X.2022.2132791","url":null,"abstract":"Historian Albert Hourani once wrote that “the sources we use help to determine the emphasis we place within the complex whole of the historical process.”1 No statement rings truer when describing Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War, the new book by Middle East historian, former journalist, and petitioner of the Israeli High Court of Justice Shay Hazkani. Admittedly, one must wonder why, in the second decade of the twenty-first century, we require yet another historiographic endeavor tracing what is now one of the most evaluated historical events of the twentieth century: the 1948 Nakba/Israeli War of Independence. What could new work on the topic offer by way of added value? Upon concluding Dear Palestine, the answer to this question becomes clear. Hazkani’s work is empirically rich. His critical approach is made possible by the source material collated by proto-state and state surveillance apparatuses; the inheritance of colonial surveillance tactics from British imperial governance and the appropriation of Arab Liberation Army (ALA) files within the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) archives enabled these resources to exist. The book is a feat given the precarious circumstances under which the author sourced his materials. Methodologically, the book may be classified as a dialectical approach to the study of nation making. It tells the story of war as constituted by “messier battle lines,” which hundreds of analyses have accepted as a given and ignored (2). Hazkani taps into a trove of letters written during the 1948 war by Jewish, Palestinian, and other Arab soldiers that reflect individual struggles over complicity, perpetration, self-understanding, and identification. These self-understandings, we find, are never stable; they are always shifting and constructing. We are offered a window into the formation of subjectivities, another feat given the historical distance to the period. We often lack microlevel accounts and explanations of participation in violence or assume that master frames or ideologies simply explain away the successes or failures of mobilization. Hazkani tries to enter the worlds of soldiers, to grasp the ways in which individuals became embedded in social and political contexts and in violence through conflict, not consensus. Hazkani reverses the approach of taking official discourse as the object of study and instead takes individuals’ social processes—of interpretation, resonance, alignment, and misalignment—as the animating mechanisms. Yet Hazkani also constructively supplements the bottom-up use of letters with a deconstruction of military and political leadership’s discourses and top-down practices. He looks","PeriodicalId":46375,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Palestine Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48083059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Toward a History of Dangerous Work and Racialized Inequalities in Twentieth-Century Palestine/Israel","authors":"Nimrod Ben Zeev","doi":"10.1080/0377919X.2022.2123212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0377919X.2022.2123212","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In recent years, a high number of fatal work accidents in the construction industry in Palestine/Israel has led several Israeli civil society organizations to begin documenting and publicizing the details of work accidents and identities of the victims. This novel documentation work has laid bare the unequal racialized distribution of dangerous work and bodily harm in the land. Palestinian construction workers from across the Green Line consistently constitute the overwhelming majority of victims of construction accidents, followed by migrant workers. Considering the long history of racial divisions of labor in Israel/Palestine over the last century, and building on the insights of scholarship on disability and political economy, this essay argues for the historical study of dangerous work as a crucial field of inquiry for scholars seeking to understand inequality, exploitation, the production of difference, settler colonialism, and communities’ experiences of these phenomena and processes in Palestine/Israel since the early twentieth century.","PeriodicalId":46375,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Palestine Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42587777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Toward a Political Ecology of Water Solutions","authors":"E. McKee","doi":"10.1080/0377919X.2022.2123213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0377919X.2022.2123213","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Expanding on political ecology analyses that are increasingly applied to water-related challenges, this essay calls for greater attention to the political and social consequences of proposed water solutions. Concern about environmental health in Palestine often highlights a lack of water access, with proposed solutions focusing on increasing water supplies. Drawing on fieldwork in the West Bank, northern Israel, and Tel Aviv, this essay compares how differently situated residents and water managers evaluate the potential impacts of one type of supply-side infrastructure: desalination. This comparison counters avowedly apolitical technical evaluations of such initiatives by showing uneven sociopolitical costs and benefits.","PeriodicalId":46375,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Palestine Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47785465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Would the United States Come to Nazareth’s Aid? Local and International Contests over the City’s Water","authors":"Leena Dallasheh","doi":"10.1080/0377919x.2022.2131458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0377919x.2022.2131458","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article explores the appeals for aid made by Nazareth’s inhabitants to the US Point Four Program (the predecessor to today’s USAID) to implement a water infrastructure project during the early 1950s. It argues that this was one of several attempts by Palestinians to push back against their exclusion and marginalization by the nascent Israeli state and to retain some measure of autonomy in local governance. Focusing on this settler-colonial setting, and on the role of nonstate actors in what became a protracted and complex conflict, I show how water rights and resource management were embroiled in the political contests that shaped the process of decolonization, at both local and international levels.","PeriodicalId":46375,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Palestine Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48483006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Interview with Muna El-Kurd: “As Palestinians, We All Have the Same Struggle, the Same History”","authors":"Rabea Eghbariah, Maria Khoury","doi":"10.1080/0377919x.2022.2099722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0377919x.2022.2099722","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46375,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Palestine Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49372261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique","authors":"Isis Nusair","doi":"10.1080/0377919X.2022.2100634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0377919X.2022.2100634","url":null,"abstract":"Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique is an important addition to the scholarship on social movements and queer and feminist praxes in the MENA region as well as queer and feminist politics and national liberation in the case of Palestine. Sa’ed Atshan uses an intersectional lens for his analysis of queer Palestine and urges activists and scholars to rethink the meaning and practice of critique, solidarity, and social movement building. The book is divided into five chapters focusing on LGBTQ Palestinians and the politics of the ordinary; global solidarity and the politics of pinkwashing; transnational activism and the politics of boycotts; media, film, and the politics of representation; and critique of empire and the politics of academia. Atshan uses ethnography, autoethnography, and sixty-five interviews with queer Palestinians and activists to explore the local and global connections in the Palestinian queer movement. He traces the development of this movement, as well as the pinkwashing branding campaigns by the Israeli state and pinkwashing by Palestinian activists and those who stand in solidarity with them. Atshan’s main critique is against those he refers to as radical purists, who, whether Palestinian or not, privilege a single voice as a representative of the movement. This critique is leveled by academics, journalists, and even queer activists and has contributed in his view to pure ideological positions that have silenced activists and put them on the defensive. He also wonders why the queer solidarity movement for Palestine plateaued after 2012. Atshan distinguishes between critique in the spirit of solidarity and critique as a disciplining mechanism aimed at silencing or disempowering queer Palestinians through discursive disfranchisement. He argues that critiques from radical purists often contribute to the splintering and weakening of the queer Palestinian solidarity movement. Queer Palestinian solidarity activists emphasize the intersection between Israeli militarism, LGBTQ pride celebrations, international tourism, and the erasure of Palestinian suffering. This in their view forms the hallmark of Israeli pinkwashing. In its attempt to brand itself as a gay haven, Israel maintains a hypocritical position that amounts to a civilizing mission for gay rights. Atshan argues that the political currents of radical purism have subsequently helped transform the critique of empire into an “empire of critique” in which queer Palestinians— and to a large extent many of their allies—find themselves under numerous overlapping regimes of surveillance, suspicion, and control. The consequences for such acts are discursive disenfranchisement, prioritizing resistance to Zionism over resistance to homophobia, and a lack of growth of the queer Palestinian solidarity movement.","PeriodicalId":46375,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Palestine Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43298883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Literary Nahda Interrupted: Pre-Nakba Palestinian Literature as Adab Maqalat","authors":"Ibrahim Mahfouz Abdou, Refqa Abu-Remaileh","doi":"10.1080/0377919X.2022.2103329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0377919X.2022.2103329","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article delves into the pre-Nakba literary scene of the 1930s and 1940s by way of its literary periodicals. Following the work of Hanna Abu Hanna and Ishaq Musa al-Husseini, the article posits periodicals as a primary, albeit understudied, site of Palestinian literary production. Prior to the Nakba, the Palestinian literary landscape experienced a small-scale local nahda in the form of adab maqalat (periodical literature) rather than adab mu’allafat (monograph/book-form literature). However, due to the ruptures of 1948, this formative period of adab maqalat has been unexplored and remains disconnected from Palestinian literary histories. In the context of a larger project that reconnects fragmented “black hole” periods of Palestinian literary history, this article takes a step toward sketching the major elements of Palestine’s literary landscape before the Nakba.","PeriodicalId":46375,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Palestine Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49135475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Palestinian Women and Popular Resistance: Perceptions, Attitudes, and Strategies","authors":"R. M. Wahbe","doi":"10.1080/0377919X.2022.2100636","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0377919X.2022.2100636","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46375,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Palestine Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49073516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reconstructing the Civic: Palestinian Civil Activism in Israel","authors":"A. Badran","doi":"10.1080/0377919x.2022.2089496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0377919x.2022.2089496","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46375,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Palestine Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45454896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Experiments in Decolonizing the University: Towards an Ecology of Study","authors":"J. Winegar","doi":"10.1080/0377919X.2022.2090216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0377919X.2022.2090216","url":null,"abstract":"the deep disillusionment in collective resistance that Kayali’s interlocutors have described, the text ends on a hopeful note that the women’s “agentive responses also contain potential seeds of change” (215). Perhaps this conclusion illustrates the persistent sumoud of Palestinian women and the Palestinian people as a whole—the endurance to continuously innovate strategies throughout such a long history of resistance. One aspect of this innovation might be how today’s Palestinian women’s collectives reaffirm their identity, not solely as women’s organizing spaces but explicitly feminist movements that confront colonialism, dispossession, and gender-based violence. As Kayali’s research was conducted primarily among women in the Bethlehem governorate, future scholarship can build on this work by expanding the scope to other locales, particularly Palestinians in the 1948 territories, Gaza, and in exile and diaspora, so that the scholarship can overcome the fragmentation and divisions caused by Israeli settler colonialism. Palestinian Women and Popular Resistance is essential reading for anyone curious about Palestinian women’s movements and would be a great addition to any women and gender studies syllabus or course on Palestine.","PeriodicalId":46375,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Palestine Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46305610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}