Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

Anti-Palestinianism

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For decades, the voices of Palestinians and those who advocate for Palestinian rights have been stifled—if not outright silenced—in the United States, according to scholars Ussama Makdisi and Saree Makdisi. More recently, activists have been arrested by federal agents merely for writing op-eds, while pro-Palestinian speech in universities as well as media and civic institutions has faced an unprecedented crackdown. How are we to understand this intolerance in the supposed land of the free?In Anti-Palestinianism, the Makdisis, two of the most prominent Palestinian American scholars in the United States, argue that the phenomenon is not reducible to Islamophobia or to general anti-Arab animus. Rather, they show that anti-Palestinianism constitutes a distinct form of bias rooted in the specific historical and political circumstances of Palestine and Israel—it is an attempt to deny the Palestinian story altogether through an unprecedented system of assumptions, norms, rules, and even laws. Drawing on a vast array of historical examples, the Makdisis have produced an essential work that gives language and clarity to the limits of American inclusion.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2027-02-23
Mått: 140 x 210 x undefined mm
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 288
Förlag: WW Norton & Co
ISBN: 9781324134800

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Ussama Makdisi is a professor of history and the May Ziadeh Chair of Palestinian & Arab Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He was previously the first Arab American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University. Saree Makdisi is professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a scholar of imperial culture and has written extensively about Palestine. They both live in California.

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"How is it possible for the Palestinians to openly dispossessed, subjugated, starved and massacred while the world's liberal democracies watch on and do almost nothing to save them? Saree and Ussama Makdisi provide a well-argued and brilliantly nuanced answer to that question in this brave, timely and hugely important book. They minutely dissect the way the Palestinian people have been dehumanised and their lives devalued over the course of a century, their very existence erased, so preparing the way for their ethnic cleansing and genocide. Anti-Palestinianism is essential reading to understand the biggest moral issue of our time."

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