About the author
Joseph Daher is an internationalist, anticapitalist and an academic. He teaches at Lausanne University, Switzerland and is a part time affiliate professor at the European University Institute, Florence (Italy). He is the author of Syria after the Uprisings (Pluto, 2019) and Hezbollah: The Political Economy of Lebanon’s Party of God (Pluto, 2016). He is the founder of the blog Syria Freedom Forever.
CONTENTS
1. Introduction
2. Antisemitism, Zionism and the Nakba
3. Israel and imperialism
4. Politics and ideology in the Middle East
5. The Palestinian national movement
6. The development of Hamas
7. Palestine and revolution in the Middle EastWhat solution?
8. Appendix: Draft theses on the Jewish Question by Ernest Mandel
RECOMMENDATIONS
This comprehensive history lays out the essential background for understanding Palestine and its place in the struggle for socialism. Unlike many accounts that focus simply on Israel’s on-going human rights atrocities, Joseph Daher situates Palestine in the context of more than a century of imperialist intervention in the Middle East. An important contribution that not only makes sense of the current moment, but also helps us think about future paths to liberation.
Adam Hanieh, Professor of Political Economy and Global Development, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS), University of Exeter.
What light can a Marxist analysis and perspective bring to our understanding of the Question of Palestine? This useful primer provides an overview of how the various topics related to the question can be apprehended from a socialist internationalist standpoint.
Gilbert Achcar is a Lebanese socialist and Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at SOAS, University of London
