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Drawing on global anti-colonial movements, Noura Erakat and John Reynolds demonstrate that justice in Palestine cannot be realized without confronting the problem of Zionism
For over one hundred years, Palestinians have struggled for liberation in their homeland. Confronting Zionism takes direct analytical aim at the ideology and institutional structures animating Israel’s brutal rule over Palestinian lives.
With cutting precision and comprehensive evidence, Noura Erakat and John Reynolds argue that Zionism as an ideology is inherently settler colonial, racially supremacist, and ultimately genocidal. Tracing the history of the establishment of Israel, the development of its apartheid institutions, and the damning failure of the Oslo Peace Process, Confronting Zionism provides the concept and tools for understanding the horrors unfolding in Palestine today.
As legal scholars, Erakat and Reynolds also provide a clear-eyed assessment of the role of international law, in a world where its usefulness is increasingly in question. At this crucial historical juncture, Confronting Zionism uplifts the Palestinian intellectual tradition to argue that decolonization predicated on restitution, reparation, and the return of refugees remains the only just way forward.
Praise for Justice for Some
"Noura Erakat's incisive exploration of the role of law in shaping the development of Israel/Palestine reveals the consistent genuflection of international legal institutions to Israel's reliance on well-established colonial practices. She also forcefully argues that the skillful use of international law as a tool of struggle can be generative of hope and possibility—for Palestine and the world. Justice for Some is precisely the book we need at this time."
—Angela Y. Davis, author of Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
"A radical rethinking of the role of law and legal advocacy in the struggle for Palestinian rights. Noura Erakat tells how a refugee problem became a national liberation movement, and the tragic story of how initiative and momentum were squandered after Oslo. Brilliant, inspiring, coldly realistic—and hopeful."
—Duncan Kennedy, Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence Emeritus, Harvard Law School
"Without any doubt, Justice for Some is the best book on the law and politics of the Palestine/Israel struggle—sophisticated, learned, humane, and creative. Noura Erakat makes a profound contribution to our general understanding of the paradoxical role of law in the contemporary world."
—Richard Falk, Former UN Special Rapporteur for Palestine, author of Palestine's Horizon: Toward a Just Peace
"Anyone wondering how and why international law has failed so miserably to curb Israeli violations in Palestine and the deleterious effect this has had on the law itself should read this book. Noura Erakat communicates...with the skill of a lawyer and the passion of an activist. Justice for Some is both enriching and inspiring."
—Raja Shehadeh, founder of Al-Haq, author of Where the Line Is Drawn: A Tale of Crossings, Friendships, and Fifty Years of Occupation in Israel-Palestine
"Noura Erakat brings a sophisticated understanding of the role of international law over the last century in the Question of Palestine. This brilliant book will be of great interest to anyone seeking to understand why the outcome, thus far, to the disposition of the Palestine problem has not been a just one."
—Rashid Khalidi, author of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
"Erakat's dissection of these legal and political histories is careful and captivating....This book asks that the Palestinian liberation struggle and Jewish-Israeli society each reckon with the impossibility of a two-state future, reimagining what their interests are—and what they could become. In rejecting the zero-sum formula's inevitability, Erakat sees, and demands, an alternative."
—Amanda McCaffrey, Jewish Currents
Praise for Empire, Emergency and International Law
'This is a book which tackles complex questions with serious depth, while remaining accessible to the reader. It is grounded not only in legal theory, history and politics but is also informed by perspectives of on-the-ground activism and awareness of social change.'
—Úna Ní Raifeartaigh, Judge of the High Court of Ireland
'John Reynolds has written a book of immense importance in at least three distinct areas of law: legal history, international law and comparative law. Empire, Emergency, and International Law is the corrective to the ahistorical and wrong-headed debate we have been subject to for far too long. It is an indispensable book that should serve as a frame of reference for any study on the law of emergency.'
—Wadie Said, Journal of Conflict & Security Law
Noura Erakat is Professor of Africana Studies and Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press). She is also co-founding editor of Jadaliyya and an editorial board member of the Journal of Palestine Studies as well as Human Geography. Noura has served as Legal Counsel for a Congressional Subcommittee in the US House of Representatives, as Legal Advocate for the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Refugee and Residency Rights, and as national organizer of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. She is a frequent commentator on CBS News, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, Fox News, the BBC, and NPR, among others. Her writings have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Nation, Al Jazeera, and the Boston Review.
John Reynolds teaches at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He is the author of the award-winning Empire, Emergency and International Law (Cambridge University Press) and an editor of the Third World Approaches to International Law Review journal and website. His research and writing covers questions of international law and colonialism, racism/apartheid, states of emergency, and political economy.