Israel-Palestine

Omer Bartov is the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. His books include Hitler’s Army (1991), Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine (2007), and Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (2018).

Introduction: Lands and Peoples: Attachment, Conflict, and Reconciliation

Omer Bartov



Part I: Trauma and Displacement



Chapter 1. The Political Theology of Eretz Yisra’el: The Nakba and the Hasidic Immigration to Palestine

Hannan Hever



Chapter 2. Western European “Philosemitism” and the Nakba in the 1950s

G. Daniel Cohen



Chapter 3.  “You Just Can’t Compare”: Holocaust Comparisons and Discourses of Israel/Palestine

Lital Levy



Chapter 4. International Human Rights Aspects of Repatriating Israeli Settlers from the West Bank

Yaël Ronen



Part II: Redrawing Space



Chapter 5. Oil and the Origins of Middle Eastern Sovereignty

Rachel Havrelock



Chapter 6. Territory, Demography, and Effective Control: An Analysis of Israel’s Biospatial Politics

Yinon Cohen & Neve Gordon



Chapter 7. Come to Netanya: A New Reading of Israel’s Planning History

Noah Hysler Rubin



Chapter 8. Architecture and the Struggle over Geography: Revisiting the Arab Village in Israel/Palestine

Haim Yacobi & Hadas Shadar



Part III: Education and Ideology



Chapter 9. Contested Pedagogy: Modern Hebrew Education and the Segregation of National Communities in Pre-State Palestine

Miriam Szamet



Chapter 10. The Biblical Borders between Theology and History: Israeli Schoolbook Maps, 1903-1967

Orna Vaadia



Chapter 11. Zionist Civic Rituals as Nation-Building Instruments

Avner Ben-Amos



Chapter 12. Rival Histories in a Deeply Divided Society: The Israeli Case

Majid Ibrahim Al-Haj



Part IV: Nationalism, Settler Colonialism, and Decolonization



Chapter 13. Three Paradigms for Understanding the Israel/Palestine Conflict

Sam Fleischhacker



Chapter 14. Thinking about State Demise: The Case of Israel

Ian Lustick



Chapter 15. Decolonizing Israel/Palestine: A Discourse or a Political Program?

Ilan Pappé



Chapter 16. What Would a Decolonized Archaeology of Israel/Palestine Look Like?

Raphael Greenberg



Part V: Future Scenarios



Chapter 17. Reinstating Apartheid or Stating the Obvious? 1948 Palestinians and Israel’s New Nation State Law

Nida Shoughry



Chapter 18. Palestinians in Israel: The Undesirable Others

Said Zeedani



Chapter 19. The Demography of Return

Salman Abu Sitta



Chapter 20. When Utopia Becomes Topia: Mapping the Future in Israel/Palestine

Debby Farber & Umar al-Ghubari



Afterword: Between Talbiyeh and Me

Alon Confino