Table of Contents
Introduction: Lands and Peoples: Attachment, Conflict, and Reconciliation
Omer Bartov Part I: Trauma and Displacement
Chapter 1. The Political Theology of Eretz Yisra’el: The Nakba and the Hasidic Immigration to Palestine Hannan Hever
Chapter 2. Western European “Philosemitism” and the Nakba in the 1950s G. Daniel Cohen
Chapter 3. “You Just Can’t Compare”: Holocaust Comparisons and Discourses of Israel/Palestine Lital Levy
Chapter 4. International Human Rights Aspects of Repatriating Israeli Settlers from the West Bank Yaël Ronen
Part II: Redrawing Space
Chapter 5. Oil and the Origins of Middle Eastern Sovereignty Rachel Havrelock
Chapter 6. Territory, Demography, and Effective Control: An Analysis of Israel’s Biospatial Politics Yinon Cohen & Neve Gordon
Chapter 7. Come to Netanya: A New Reading of Israel’s Planning History Noah Hysler Rubin
Chapter 8. Architecture and the Struggle over Geography: Revisiting the Arab Village in Israel/Palestine Haim Yacobi & Hadas Shadar
Part III: Education and Ideology
Chapter 9. Contested Pedagogy: Modern Hebrew Education and the Segregation of National Communities in Pre-State Palestine Miriam Szamet
Chapter 10. The Biblical Borders between Theology and History: Israeli Schoolbook Maps, 1903-1967 Orna Vaadia
Chapter 11. Zionist Civic Rituals as Nation-Building Instruments Avner Ben-Amos
Chapter 12. Rival Histories in a Deeply Divided Society: The Israeli Case Majid Ibrahim Al-Haj
Part IV: Nationalism, Settler Colonialism, and Decolonization
Chapter 13. Three Paradigms for Understanding the Israel/Palestine Conflict Sam Fleischhacker
Chapter 14. Thinking about State Demise: The Case of Israel Ian Lustick
Chapter 15. Decolonizing Israel/Palestine: A Discourse or a Political Program? Ilan Pappé
Chapter 16. What Would a Decolonized Archaeology of Israel/Palestine Look Like? Raphael Greenberg
Part V: Future Scenarios
Chapter 17. Reinstating Apartheid or Stating the Obvious? 1948 Palestinians and Israel’s New Nation State Law Nida Shoughry
Chapter 18. Palestinians in Israel: The Undesirable Others Said Zeedani
Chapter 19. The Demography of Return Salman Abu Sitta
Chapter 20. When Utopia Becomes Topia: Mapping the Future in Israel/Palestine Debby Farber & Umar al-Ghubari
Afterword: Between Talbiyeh and Me Alon Confino
