Confronting Zionism
Description
Drawing on the history of global anticolonial movements and a rich Palestinian intellectual tradition, two leading legal scholars 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 is colonial and racist in essence and practice. Tracing the history of the Zionist project, the establishment of the Israeli settler colonial state and development of its apartheid laws and institutions-plus the damning failure of diplomatic efforts, including the Oslo peace process-this book provides the concepts and tools for understanding the horrors unfolding in Palestine today.
Erakat and Reynolds also provide a clear-eyed assessment of the role of international law, in a world where its relevance is increasingly in question. Taking lessons from ongoing inequalities in South Africa as well as anticolonial and socialist policies across the global south, Confronting Zionism argues that at this crucial historical juncture, decolonization in Palestine predicated on redistribution, reparations and refugee return remains the only just way forward.
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Persons
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, 2019), which received the Palestine Book Award and the Bronze Medal for the Independent Publishers Book Award in Current Events/Foreign Affairs. She is a co-founding editor of Jadaliyya and an editorial board member of the Journal of Palestine Studies. Erakat has served as legal counsel for a Congressional subcommittee in the US House of Representatives, and as legal advocate for the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Refugee and Residency Rights. Noura has also produced video documentaries, including "Gaza In Context" and "Black Palestinian Solidarity." She is a frequent commentator in television, print, and radio media.
John Reynolds is Associate Professor of Law at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. His research and writing focuses on the relationships between international law and colonialism, racism/apartheid and political economy. He is the author of the award-winning Empire, Emergency and International Law (Cambridge University Press) and a member of the editorial collective of the Third World Approaches to International Law Review journal.