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64 Years of Occupation, 64 Years of Resistance
In commemoration of the Nakba, Verso publishes The Case for Sanctions Against Israel -
Shlomo Sand's books prompt death threat
"Four years ago, when I published my previous book, The Invention of the Jewish People, there were fewer crazy people than there are today." —Shlomo Sand
Authors
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Jacques Rancière
"One of our most stimulating thinkers"-<em>Paris Match</em>
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Ellen Meiksins Wood
"Meiksins Wood is a rare breed-an academic with the soul of a storyteller." - <em>Morning Star</em>
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Alain Supiot
"France's most incisive jurist"–Perry Anderson
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Alain Badiou
“Tunisia, Egypt: the Eastern wind shakes the arrogance of the West.”
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Boris Groys
"Groys combines revelatory analysis with philosophical questions that go to the heart of cultural production today." — Iwona Blazwick
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Ross Perlin
“The internship boom is only three decades old—a sprawling, unstudied, unregulated mess.”
Books
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It Started in Wisconsin
Edited by Paul Buhle, and Mari Jo Buhle
First-hand accounts of the largest pro-labor mass mobilization in modern American history
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The Return of the Public
by Dan Hind
Winner 2011 Best Book of Ideas at the Bristol Festival of Ideas
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The Lives of Things
A surreal short story collection from the master of what-ifs
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The Least of All Possible Evils
Groundbreaking exploration of the philosophy underpinning Western humanitarian intervention.by Eyal Weizman
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The Metamorphoses of Kinship
A masterwork of the anthropology of kinship by the heir to Levi-Strauss. -
Trampling Out the Vintage
A dramatic new history of Cesar Chavez and the rise and fall of the United Farm Workers.
Blog
64 years of occupation and resistance: a reading list
The Nakba, or "day of catastrophe," remains the central issue of struggle for the Palestinian people. Commemorated each May 15th, the Nakba began in May 1948 when the State of Israel was founded on Palestinian lands, leading to the forcible expulsion of 75% of the indigenous population. Today, over 5 million Palestinian refugees remain in refugee camps in countries around the world, unable to return to their land and homes. They are the oldest and largest refugee population in the world.
With the announcement, just one day before the Nakba, that Israel has settled with hundreds of Palestinian political prisoners on hunger strike, we reflect on 64 years of Israeli occupation—and Palestinian resistance—with a survey of Verso's responses to this struggle.
Shlomo Sand receives death threat
Shlomo Sand, an Israeli historian and the author of The Invention of the Jewish People, received a death threat on Sunday. According to Ha'aretz, an envelope containing white powder and a letter that referred to Sand as an anti-Semite and a Nazi arrived at Tel Aviv University's Department of History, where Sand is a professor. The Israeli police have since examined the white powder and found that it is probably not dangerous, but the investigation is still ongoing.
Sand's newest book, The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland, is a follow-up to 2009's The Invention of the Jewish People. He told Ha'aretz that he believes it is possible that his books, which have previously sparked controversies, prompted the death threat.
Visit Ha'aretz to read the article in full.
'The boycott will work' - exclusive extracts from The Case For Sanctions Against Israel at Ceasefire magazine
May 15th is Nakba Day - commemorating 64 years since the establishment of Israel and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, many of whom, with their descendants, are still refugees.
To mark Nakba Day, Ceasefire magazine publish two exclusive extracts from The Case For Sanctions Against Israel (also published today).
Hind Awwad, a co-ordinator with the Palestinian BDS National Committee, writes:
As the world watched the Arab Spring, many Palestinians saw traces of Palestine's revolution, particularly of the first Intifada-the popular uprising of 1987—and in the beautiful spirit of the young revolutionaries.
The fall of the regimes in Tunisia and Egypt was celebrated in Palestinian households not only because it promised a return of Arab resistance, a constant dimension of the Palestinian cause but hijacked by the dictatorships for so many years, but also because it was a reminder that Palestine continues to bring people together: those struggling in many places around the world against injustice of all kinds...
The BDS movement has provided a way for us to break our collective chains.
Awwad's piece, BDS: Six Years of Success, goes on to chart some of the many successes of the BDS movement over the last few years. Read the full piece at Ceasefire.
Also published today, esteemed Israeli 'new historian' Ilan Pappe explains why he supports BDS and why he believes that it will work:
Subversive Film Festival livestream
The Future of Europe in Zagreb
Subversive Forum - Zagreb - May 13-19 Live-streaming: Žižek, Ali, Spivak, Cassen, Hardt, Sassen, Salecl, Marazzi, Amin and many others.
Discussions
- New edition or re-issue?
- It is great to see a critical piece on Thomas Friedman given the undue veneration he is accorded in U.S. society. Now, what is still needed is a critique of his domestic issues counter part at the NYT, David Brooks. Won't someone, please, write a book exp
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