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Although queer Israeli cinema is often perceived as symptomatically expressing Israeli society and its gay politics, this article argues that the recent success of Israeli films abroad can be attributed to their inclusion within the global network of film festivals and art houses. Israeli films have been thriving as part of "world cinema" by adopting a formula that Thomas Elsaesser has labeled "self-othering" or "self-exoticizing," in which they expose local issues, such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and ultraorthodox Jewish communities, to the gaze of the other. We suggest that many Israeli queer films offer a double exoticization, adding a gay twist to the familiar formula of Israeli self-othering, or providing an exotic locale to revitalize otherwise worn-out gay narratives. Additionally, we look at films that challenge this formula from within the festival network and suggest that we should also examine our own position as film scholars writing about queer Israeli cinema to a global academic community.

Now in its fourth edition, James L. Gelvin's award-winning account of the conflict between Israel and Palestine offers a compelling, accessible and current introduction for students and general readers. The book traces the struggle from the emergence of nationalism among the Jews of Europe and the Arab inhabitants of Ottoman Palestine through to the present, exploring the external pressures and internal logic that have propelled it. Placing events in Palestine within the framework of global history, The Israel-Palestine Conflict: A History skilfully interweaves biographical sketches, eyewitness accounts, poetry, fiction, and official documentation into its narrative. This updated edition features new material on the fate of the two-state solution during the Trump/Netanyahu era, alongside an expanded glossary and suggestions for further reading.

The Israel-Palestine conflict is frequently characterised by the violence between the two sides, beneath€which lie a whole series of issues and disagreements. This book uniquely brings together Israeli and Palestinian viewpoints on key topics, providing an invaluable guide to the latest thinking on the major topics that the peace process will be based around.

This article deals with the electoral process that has taken place in Palestine since the death of Yasser Arafat. It tackles the issue of the internal & regional political changes that have followed Mahmoud Abbas' arrival as head of the Palestinian Authority (PA). What are the links between the Palestinian-Israeli diplomatic agenda & the political liberalization of the Palestinian institutions? & to what extent can the victory of an Islamic party affect the opening & development of peace negotiations? The PA is currently trying to stop in some ways the democratic process, fearing an Hamas overwhelming landslide. The Authority is supported in that scenario by the European Community, the United States & Israel, which would have preferred another more "moderate" majority on the scene. Adapted from the source document.

This dissertation inquires into the question of collectivity in texts written in and about Israel/Palestine from the middle of the 20th century to the present day. In light of the current crisis in the configuration of both Israeli and Palestinian national collectivities, it explores the articulation of non-national collective formations in literary and cinematic texts. I read these texts not as sealed works that represent historically realized collectivities, but as creative projects whose very language and modalities speculatively constitute potential collectivities. Rejecting the progression of teleological history ruled by actualized facts, these projects compose a textual counter-history of Israel/Palestine. I therefore propose reading them outside of the national and state-centered paradigm that governs most political and cultural inquiries into Israel/Palestine, and suggest instead that they amount to an anti-colonial trajectory. The Hebrew and French texts discussed in the dissertation challenge their own fixed political positioning within the colonial matrix and offer a critique of European political dictates and artistic forms. In Chapter One, I discuss S. Yizhar's constant return to the events of the 1948 war and his refusal to move beyond it and narrate post-1948 sovereign, statist time; I consider the different literary procedures he employs throughout his work to potentially (re)constitute - after the establishment of the Israeli state - a pre-1948, non-national collective formation in Israel/Palestine. I then move, in Chapter Two, to follow the revolutionary collective enunciation fashioned by Jean-Luc Godard and the Dziga-Vertov collective, a group of politically-active filmmakers formed in 1968. I investigate the collectivity they attempted to develop together with Palestinian fighters in 1969-1970, the project's collapse after what is known as Black September, and finally its reflective afterlife in the 1976 film Ici et ailleurs. Chapter Three delves into the texts Jean Genet dedicated to the Palestinian struggle in the 1970s and -80s. I discuss how, in addressing his writing to a non-historical Palestinian collectivity which by then had already disappeared, Genet defies the boundaries of liberal politics of representation, and calls for a different notion of a gestural, "scripted" anti-colonial struggle. In Chapter Four I read contemporary Hebrew writer Haviva Pedaya's liturgical piyyut poetry, and ascertain how it may generate an oppositional history of Hebrew letters formulated from and towards Oriental collectivities, as a challenge to the modernist and secularist underpinnings of "modern Hebrew literature." Taken together, the projects I study recast Israel/Palestine as a political space in which both Palestinian and Jewish collectivities potentially emerge as anti-colonial, exilic, Eastern ones, formed in struggle and embedded in text.

Discusses simultaneous approaches to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that involve the destruction of either Israel or Palestine, or a peaceful and secure two-state solution, as demonstrated by different groups of Palestinians and Israelis.

At once a memoir, a call to support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, and an argument for queer solidarity across borders, this book tells the story of how novelist and activist Sarah Schulman became aware of how issues of the Israeli occupation of Palestine were tied to her own gay and lesbian politics.