Palestine Archives | Contending Modernities

Israeli Apartheid and Its Apologists

Raz Segal
March 31, 2022March 31, 2022

The weaponization of the discourse of antisemitism is a crude and cruel distortion: abusing the historical struggle of a vulnerable people, Jews, under attack by powerful states to blur the attack of a state, Israel, against a vulnerable people, Palestinians.

Palestinian Protest: The Palestinian Question and the Global Israeli South (Part 2)

Series: Beyond Jews and Arabs: Israel and its Non-Europeans

Omri Ben Yehuda
March 29, 2022March 30, 2022

The crucial point is that Zionism’s colonization of the Jew himself, a notion at the core of early Zionist discourse, is now enabled by its focus on the distinction between “Jews” and “Arabs,” a binary which makes (Ashkenazi) Jews seem modern and secular.

Abolishing the Jewish-Arab Divide (Part 1)

Series: Beyond Jews and Arabs: Israel and its Non-Europeans

Omri Ben Yehuda
March 15, 2022March 30, 2022

The “Palestinian cause/question” and the “Jewish question” are both expressions of European modernity, whether in the form of their currency of nationalism or genocidal practices, neither of which are acknowledged in Israel.

What Friends Are For

Series: Symposium on The Moral Triangle

Sabine von Mering
March 4, 2022

Ultimately, politicians are not able to initiate peace from the top down. Peace can only come from the bottom up.

The German State and the Creation of Un/Desired Communities

Series: Symposium on The Moral Triangle

Hannah Tzuberi and Nahed Samour
February 22, 2022

The birth of a morally “improved” German collective necessitates the memory of the Holocaust to remain in vivid proximity, but also requires a sense of perpetual vulnerability of Jews in the present and future.

A Secular Conversion of Protestant Morals?

Series: Symposium on The Moral Triangle

Sultan Doughan
February 17, 2022February 18, 2022

The history of post-Holocaust Germany and German-Jewish relations cannot be fully grasped without understanding the wider efforts of the Protestant Church.

Germany’s Split Identity: Liberal at Home, Reactionary on Palestine

Series: Symposium on The Moral Triangle

Amos Goldberg
February 9, 2022February 9, 2022

Personal and collective identities always hold tensions, ambivalences, paradoxes, and even contradictions. But when these become so extreme that the gaps cannot be negotiated, mitigated, bridged, or even discussed, they become a reason for deep (political) concern.

Introduction to Symposium on The Moral Triangle

Series: Symposium on The Moral Triangle

Joshua Lupo
February 9, 2022March 4, 2022

What readers will discern in these pages is that the historical traumas experienced by one group can occlude the realities of violence and oppression in another.

Were There—and Can There Be—Arab Jews? (With Afterthoughts on the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism and Palestinian Jews)

Series: Symposium on The Arab and Jewish Questions

Moshe Behar
September 8, 2021September 23, 2021

The political realm must be tightly woven into every historical and contemporary reflection on Arab Jews.

Re-Entangling Palestine

Series: Symposium on The Arab and Jewish Questions

Nadia Fadil
August 30, 2021August 30, 2021

While the notion of solidarity assumes a separation in the struggles, and a tactical alliance and support, the vocabulary of entanglement forces us to reckon with the interdependency of these different struggles.

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