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Book Review

New voices in Israel settler colonial studies

Jewish anti-fascism and the false promise of settler colonialism, by Max Kaiser, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Palgrave McMillan, 2022, 302 pages, £127.76 (Hardback), ISBN: 9783031101229; The oldest guard: forging the Zionist settler past, by Liora R. Halperin, Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2021, 368 pages, £84.62 (Hardback), ISBN: 9781503628496; The Israeli settler movement / assessing and explaining social movement success, by Sivan Hirsch-Hoefler and Cas Mudde, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 296 pages, £74.99 (Hardback), ISBN: 9781107138643

 

Notes

1 See Patrick Wolfe, Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology: The Politics and Poetics of an Ethnographic Event (London: Cassell, 1999); Lorenzo Veracini, Settler Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010); Lorenzo Veracini, The Settler Colonial Present (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

2 See Mahmood Mamdani, Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020); Veracini, Settler Colonialism; Patrick Wolfe, Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race (London: Verso, 2016).

3 Gershon Shafir, Land, Labour and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882–1914, 2nd ed. (Berkley: California University Press, 1996).

4 For earlier scholarship on the concept of settler colonialism see Fayez Sayegh, ‘Zionist Colonialism in Palestine (1965)’, Settler Colonial Studies 2, no. 1 (2012): 206–25; Omar Jabary Salamanca, Mezna Qato, Rabie Kareem, and Sobhi Samour, ‘The Past is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine’, Settler Colonial Studies 2, no. 1 (2012): 1–8.

5 Idith Zertal, Akiva Eldar, and Vivian Sohn Eden, Lords of the Land: The War Over Israel's Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967–2007 (New York: Nation Books, 2009).

6 See Sharri Plonski, Palestinian Citizens of Israel: Power, Resistance and the Struggle for Space (London: SOAS Palestine Studies Book Series, I. B. Tauris, 2018); Marcelo Svirsky, Arab-Jewish Activism in Palestine-Israel (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012); Teodora Todorova, Decolonial Solidarity in Palestine-Israel: Settler Colonialism and Resistance from Within (London: Bloomsbury Press, 2021).

7 On the emergence of ‘whiteness’ and racial stratification across settler colonial contexts see Mamdani, Neither Settler nor Native; Aileen Moreton-Robinson, The White Possessive: Property, Power and Indigenous Sovereignty (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015); Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples (London: Zed, 2012); Wolfe, Traces of History.

8 See Smith, Decolonizing Methodologies.

9 See Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2013).

10 See Luis Mirón, ‘Transnational, National, and Indigenous Racial Subjects: Moving from Critical Discourse to Praxis’, in Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies, ed. Norman K. Denzil, Yvonna S. Lincoln, and Linda Tuhiwai Smith (London: Sage, 2008), 547–62.

11 See Norman K. Denzil, Yvonna S. Lincoln, and Linda Tuhiwai Smith, eds., Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies (London: Sage, 2008).

12 Todorova, Decolonial Solidarity in Palestine-Israel.

13 See Sai Englert, ‘Smoke and Mirrors: Rising Israeli “Fascism” or Forgetting the Labour Zionist Past’, Middle East Critique 28, no. 3 (2019): 289–305.

14 See Brenna Bhandar, Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership (Durham: Duke University Press, 2018); Mamdani, Neither Settler nor Native; Moreton-Robinson, The White Possessive; Wolfe, Traces of History.

15 See Sai Englert, ‘Settlers, Workers, and the Logic of Accumulation by Dispossession’, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography 55, no. 6 (2020): 1647–66.

16 See Andy Clarno, Neoliberal Apartheid: Palestine-Israel and South Africa After 1994 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017); Shafir, Land, Labour and the Origins; Gershon Shafir, ‘Settler Citizenship in Jewish colonisation of Palestine’, in Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Century, ed. Caroline Elkins and Susan Pedersen (London: Routledge, 2005).

17 Englert, ‘Settlers, Workers, and the Logic of Accumulation’.

18 See Englert, ‘Smoke and Mirrors: Rising Israeli’.

19 Nadia Abu Zahra, ‘IDs and Territory: Population Control for Resources and Expropriation’, in War, Citizenship, Territory, ed. Deborah Cowen and Emily Gilbert (New York: Routledge, 2007).

20 Clarno, Neoliberal Apartheid: Palestine-Israel.

21 Hagar Kotef, The Colonizing Self: On Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020), 22.

22 For resistance to dispossession see: Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa (London: Haymarket Books, 2021); Ruba Salih and Sophie Richter-Devroe, ‘Palestine Beyond National Frames: Emerging Politics, Cultures, and Claims’, The South Atlantic Quarterly 117, no. 1 (2018). doi:10.1215/00382876-4282019; Todorova, Decolonial Solidarity in Palestine-Israel.

23 Salih and Richter-Devroe, ‘Palestine Beyond National Frames’, 7.

24 See Zertal, Eldar, and Eden, Lords of the Land.

25 Sivan Hirsch-Hoefler and Cas Mudde, The Israeli Settler Movement: Assessing and Explaining Social Movement Success (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), 106.

26 Dani Filc, ‘Populism in the Middle East’, in Routledge Handbook of Global Populism, ed. Carlos de la Torre (London: Routledge, 2019).

27 See Todorova, Decolonial Solidarity in Palestine-Israel.

28 See Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini, The Human Right to Dominate (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).

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