- Imprint: Penguin
- ISBN: 9781405995955
- Price: £14.00
Robin DG Kelley, author of 'Freedom Dreams'Timely and devastating. Saree and Ussama Makdisi break down the logic of anti-Palestinianism, its settler colonial roots, its ties to other racial regimes, and its enablers in much of the international community. The authors are clear: dismantling the colonial and racial order are preconditions for a free Palestine, and a genuinely free world
Fady Joudah, author of 'Exhibit G'A groundbreaking book – it will shock and inspire you. It grippingly delineates the massive and relentless machinery behind anti-Palestinianism in the West: this deadly bigotry we need to and will overcome. Anti-Palestinianism is a foundational work that should be read in every house and taught in every classroom
William DalrympleHow is it possible for the Palestinians to be openly dispossessed, subjugated, starved and massacred while the world’s liberal democracies watch on and do almost nothing to save them? Saree and Ussama Makdisi provide a well-argued and brilliantly nuanced answer to that question in this brave, timely and hugely important book. They minutely dissect the way the Palestinian people have been dehumanised and their lives devalued over the course of a century, their very existence erased, so preparing the way for their ethnic cleansing and genocide. Anti-Palestinianism is essential reading to understand the biggest moral issue of our time
Eyal Weizman, founder of 'Forensic Architecture'This book is the most relevant piece of writing I have read anywhere for understanding our present predicament. It patiently and brilliantly deconstructs the greatest fallacy of our era: that those who struggle for Palestinian freedom are by definition antisemitic. Saree and Ussama Makdisi, the most prominent Palestinian intellectuals of our day, identify anti-Palestinianism as a form of racism driven by the engine of Zionist genocidal violence – a form of racism now seeking to negate Palestinian life itself. Anti-Palestinianism makes clear that we must confront this lethal prejudice urgently in order to build a politics of resistance and liberation
Peter Beinart, author of 'Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza'If Americans are like fish, anti-Palestinianism is like water—so ubiquitous it remains largely invisible. Naming it is crucial work. This is a genuinely important book
About Saree Makdisi
Saree Makdisi is the Chair of the English Department at UCLA and a scholar of Palestine, colonial history, and its afterlives. He is the author of Palestine Inside Out (Norton, 2008), which counted Alice Walker, Desmond Tutu, and Howard Zinn among its many supporters, and Tolerance is a Wasteland (UCP, 2022), which Judith Butler called “a beacon of light.” He wrote the introduction for the recent reissue of Edward Said’s The Question of Palestine, which he presented at Southbank Center in a much-watched speech last fall. He writes frequently for the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, The Guardian, n+1, and the London Review of Books. His essay “No Human Being Can Exist” was n+1’s most-read piece of 2023.
Learn moreAbout Ussama Makdisi
Ussama Makdisi is the inaugural May Ziadeh Chair in Palestinian and Arab Studies, Professor of History, and Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California Berkeley. His latest book, Age of Coexistence (University of California Press, 2019), was praised by Peter Beinart and Rashid Khalidi, among others. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Houston Chronicle, The Yale Review, Jewish Currents, and Aeon, as well as on various Arabic media, and he has appeared on numerous television and radio shows including Al Jazeera, TRT International, and NPR’s Morning Edition.
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