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Introduction : Three Questions That Make One / Bashir Bashir and Leila Farsakh -- Jackals and Arabs (Once More on the German-Jewish Dialogue) / Gil Anidjar -- An Emblematic Embrace : The New Europe, Anti-Antisemitism, and the Palestinians / Brian Klug -- Palestine in Algeria : The Emergence of an Arab-Islamic Question in the Interwar Period / Amal Ghazal -- On Orientalist Genealogies : The Split Arab/Jew Figure Revisited / Ella Shohat -- Returning to the Question of Europe : On Arabs, Jews, and Arab-Jews / Hakem Al-Rustom -- Between Shared Homeland to National Home : Balfour Declaration from a Sephardic perspective / Hillel Cohen and Yuval Evri -- Israel and Palestine in Universities : Subjects of Study or Sources of Action? / Derek Penslar -- Apocalypse/Enmity/Dialogue : Negotiating the Depth / Jacqueline Rose -- Competing Marxisms, Cessation of (Settler) Colonialism and the One-State Solution in Israel/Palestine / Moshe Behar -- The Dialectic of National Identities in Palestinian Society and Israeli Society : Nationalism and Binationalism / Maram Masarwi.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction THREE QUESTIONS THAT MAKE ONE BASHIR BASHIR AND LEILA FARSAKH -- PART I Interrogating Europe Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and Colonialism -- Chapter One JACKALS AND ARABS Once More on the German-Jewish Dialogue -- Chapter Two AN EMBLEMATIC EMBRACE New Europe, the Jewish State, and the Palestinian Question -- Chapter Three PALESTINE IN ALGERIA The Emergence of an Arab-Islamic Question in the Interwar Period -- PART II Beyond the Binary Division Between "Jews" and "Arabs" Revisiting National Constructs -- Chapter Four ON ORIENTALIST GENEALOGIES The Split Arab/Jew Figure Revisited -- Chapter Five RETURNING TO THE QUESTION OF EUROPE From the Standpoint of the Defeated -- Chapter Six BETWEEN SHARED HOMELAND TO NATIONAL HOME The Balfour Declaration from a Native Sephardic Perspective -- Chapter Seven TOWARD A FIELD OF ISRAEL/PALESTINE STUDIES -- Chapter Eight APOCALYPSE/EMNITY/DIALOGUE Negotiating the Depths -- Chapter Nine COMPETING MARXISMS, CESSATION OF (SETTLER) COLONIALISM, AND THE ONE-STATE SOLUTION IN ISRAEL-PALESTINE -- Chapter Ten DIALECTIC OF THE NATIONAL IDENTITIES IN PALESTINIAN SOCIETY AND ISRAELI SOCIETY Nationalism and Binationalism -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

"This book deals with two very painful and traumatic events in Jewish and Palestinian history--the Holocaust and the Nakba. Both events, which differ in nature and in degree, have had a decisive impact on the subsequent history, consciousness and identities of the two peoples. The Holocaust has become a central component of Jewish identity, particularly since the late 1970s and the 1980s, in Israel and around the world. The Nakba and its persisting consequences have become a crucial part of Palestinian and Arab identities since 1948. For the Palestinians, the Nakba is not merely about their defeat, their ethnic cleansing from Palestine and the loss of their homeland, nor even about having become a people most of whom live as refugees outside their land, and a minority living under occupation in their own land. The Nakba also represents the destruction of hundreds of villages and urban neighborhoods, along with the cultural, economic, political and social fabric of the Palestinian people. It is the violent and irreparable disruption of the modern development of Palestinian culture, society, and national consciousness. It is the ongoing colonization of Palestine that continues to the present through colonial practices and polices like Jewish settlements, illegal land acquisition, and the emptying of villages"--

In this groundbreaking book, leading Arab and Jewish intellectuals examine how and why the Holocaust and the Nakba are interlinked without blurring fundamental differences between them. While these two foundational tragedies are often discussed separately and in abstraction from the constitutive historical global contexts of nationalism and colonialism, The Holocaust and the Nakba explores the historical, political, and cultural intersections between them. The majority of the contributors argue that these intersections are embedded in cultural imaginations, colonial and asymmetrical power relations, realities, and structures. Focusing on them paves the way for a new political, historical, and moral grammar that enables a joint Arab-Jewish dwelling and supports historical reconciliation in Israel/Palestine.This book does not seek to draw a parallel or comparison between the Holocaust and Nakba or to merely inaugurate a "dialogue" between them. Instead, it searches for a new historical and political grammar for relating and narrating their complicated intersections. The book features prominent international contributors, including a foreword by Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury on the centrality of the Holocaust and Nakba in the essential struggle of humanity against racism, and an afterword by literary scholar Jacqueline Rose on the challenges and contributions of the linkage between the Holocaust and Nakba for power to shift and a world of justice and equality to be created between the two peoples. The Holocaust and the Nakba is the first extended and collective scholarly treatment in English of these two constitutive traumas together.

Recent years have seen a revitalisation of decolonisation as a framework of analysis in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. This article maps changes in the meanings attached to decolonisation in the Israeli Israeli–Palestinian context, paying particular attention to the one-state paradigm. One-state proposals highlight bi-national realities in historic Palestine in order to lay out a decolonising vision grounded in equal civic rights. Many one-state advocates, however, are suspicious of a prescriptive bi-national paradigm that would afford the two national groups equal collective rights, primarily because its recognition of Jewish national self-determination is seen as entrenching, rather than decolonising, colonial relations of power. We argue that a prescriptive bi-nationalism in fact offers rich resources for a decolonising project in Israel/Palestine that seeks to establish a polity based on the principles of justice and equality – come to terms with historical injustice and imagine alternative pasts, presents and futures based on Arab–Jewish relationships.

Bashir Bashir, Amos Goldberg, and seventeen contributors have produced a powerful and incisive book that deserves the attention of everyone interested in central European history. Bashir and Goldberg's volume engages readers methodologically as well as intellectually, politically, ethically, and personally. It challenges us to think, write, and do things differently, to take risks, and to welcome the invigorating and disruptive presence of people in every aspect of our work.