Edward Said

After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine

by Antony Loewenstein and Ahmed Moor  · 14 Jun 2012  · 293pp  · 89,712 words

of Palestine as a result of the emergence and success of the Zionist movement. Jews expelled, massacred, destroyed and raped in that year, and generally behaved like all the other colonialist movements operating in the Middle East and Africa since the beginning of the nineteenth century. In normal circumstances, as Edward Said recommended

The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood

by Rashid Khalidi  · 31 Aug 2006  · 357pp  · 112,950 words

the PNC held in Algiers in 1988, in the form of the Palestinian Declaration of Independence. This document was drafted in its Arabic version by the preeminent Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish, and in its English version by the distinguished Palestinian literary and cultural critic Edward Said. The declaration rhetorically proclaimed the establishment of an independent

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of regarding, and of controlling, former colonies have been inherited by the new postcolonial hegemons, whether these means involve an Orientalist structure, as described by Edward Said, for knowing about, framing, describing, and thereby controlling the “other,” or whether they involve more active forms of manipulation of societies, economies, and polities.

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Violence and Coexistence (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000). 9. Eminent Palestinian critics of the PLO and the PA include Dr. Haydar ‘Abd al-Shafi and Edward Said. See an interview with ‘Abd al-Shafi, “Looking Back, Looking Forward,” Journal of Palestine Studies 125 (autumn 2002): 28–35; and Said’s writings on the

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extreme than in Israel. 15. Among those arguing the former was Edward Said, in the works cited in n. 9. The latter argument is made for example in Sayigh, Armed Struggle and the Search for State. 16. For further discussion of the Palestinian secular democratic state proposal, see Chapter 6. 17. This was

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the few to do so was the late Edward Said, in a series of coruscating analytical articles later collected in the three volumes cited in n. 9. 19. I was one of several advisors to this delegation during its twenty months of existence. For Palestinian participant accounts see: Haydar ‘Abd al-Shafi, “

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(Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1987); 1986 Report: Demographic, Economic, Legal, Social and Political Developments in the West Bank (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1986). 42. See Edward Said’s From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map, with a foreword by Tony Judt, as well as the latter’s article, “Israel: The Alternative

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view is Salman Abu Sitta, author of Palestinian Right to Return: Sacred, Legal and Possible (London: Palestinian Return Centre, 1999), and Atlas of Palestine, 1948 (London: Palestine Land Society, 2004). 47. This, as well as moral considerations, seems to be the basis for the views of the late Edward Said, and of Tony Judt. 48. Among

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017

by Rashid Khalidi  · 28 Jan 2020  · 413pp  · 120,506 words

map of the Middle East in spite of the best efforts of Israel, the United States, and many Arab governments, the Palestinians succeeded in reacquiring something long denied to them, what Edward Said called the “permission to narrate.” This meant the right to tell their story themselves, taking back control of it not

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effective competing narrative generated by Israel and its supporters that equated “Palestinian” with “terrorist.”39 The PLO’s incapacity to understand the importance of these two vital arenas started with its top leadership. Respected Palestinian-American academics in the United States, notably Edward Said, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, Walid Khalidi, Hisham Sharabi, Fouad Moughrabi, and

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the United States after 1967. This was largely thanks to the efforts of the same group of Palestinian-American academics, who were effective in putting the Palestinian narrative before college campuses, the alternative media, and other sectors of public opinion. Edward Said in particular had an outsized impact, articulately making a case for the

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, Ghassan al-Khatib, Zahira Kamal, Mustafa Barghouti, Rita Giacaman, Raji Sourani, and many others. Those outside of Palestine, among them Edward Said and Ibrahim Abu Lughod, had a similar impact. By the early 1990s, the unified Palestinian stance had successfully made it clear that the occupation was untenable, at least as it had functioned

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impact of the intifada, the organization redoubled its efforts, culminating in the Palestinian Declaration of Independence adopted at a meeting of the Palestine National Council in Algiers on November 15. Drafted largely by Mahmoud Darwish, who was aided by Edward Said and the respected intellectual Shafiq al-Hout, the document formally abandoned the PLO

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was not actually harmful to the Palestinian cause. Even before 1982, many in the PLO understood that the time had come to end the armed struggle. While still based in Lebanon, its leaders had tasked the distinguished Pakistani intellectual Eqbal Ahmad, a close friend of Edward Said and a friend of mine, with

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and why the PLO should have ordered its envoys in Oslo to stand firm against such a Begin-style deal, which Edward Said rightly called “an instrument of Palestinian surrender, a Palestinian Versailles.”56 I am convinced that rejecting Israel’s bare-bones offer in Washington and Oslo would have been the right course

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with Hussein as his middle name, who had been photographed with Edward Said, who was my neighbor and colleague at the University of Chicago, who declared a “new beginning” for the US in the Muslim world—surely he would deal differently with Palestine. These hopes sprung from the assumption that presidents have unlimited

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Muslims (which is how Palestinians, even the Christians among them, are seen by many). The propagation of this image is one of the greatest achievements of Zionism and is vital to its survival. As Edward Said put it, Zionism triumphed in part because it “won the political battle for Palestine in the international world

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my Brokers of Deceit. 56. “The Morning After,” London Review of Books 15, no. 20, October 21, 1993, https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/edward-said/the-morning-after. This deeply skeptical article was written at a time of near-universal euphoria over the 1993 signing ceremony of the Oslo Accords

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the Palestinians, again in the late Baruch Kimmerling’s apt usage. 59. I was present and heard Gazit say this in response to a question from the audience during a panel discussion at Amherst College on March 4, 1994. CHAPTER 6   1. David Barsamian, The Pen and the Sword: Conversations with Edward Said

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in the current atmosphere, his critique of Zionism might draw absurd accusations of anti-Semitism.   5. “Introduction,” Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question, ed. Edward Said and Christopher Hitchens (New York: Verso, 1988), 1.   6. These international efforts, closely coordinated by the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs, focus in particular

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of Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation ABOUT THE AUTHOR RASHID KHALIDI is the author of seven books, among them Palestinian Identity, Brokers of Deceit, and The Iron Cage. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and many other journals. He is the Edward Said

On Palestine

by Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappé and Frank Barat  · 18 Mar 2015

and what it was supposed to mean. I started with reading Chomsky and slowly became very interested in anything that had to do with Israel/Palestine. Reading Edward Said, Mahmoud Darwish, Ghassan Kanafani, John Berger, Tanya Reinhart, Ilan Pappé, Norman Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky, Kurt Vonnegut, Arundhati Roy, Naomi Klein . . . all became part

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change the conversation in effective ways. In 1982, in the wake of Israel’s first invasion of Lebanon, Edward Said wrote an article titled “Permission to Narrate” in which he called upon the Palestinians to extend their struggle into the realm of representation and historical versions or narratives. The actual balance of political

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and not follow the agenda of the other Palestinian groups. But if they adopt Haidar Eid’s position, that means that even they do not have the political power to change the reality now on the ground they still have the right, as Edward Said put it in 1982, “to narrate” their

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is the only way forward. The problem is that not one Palestinian can live with this, hence the continuation of the conflict. FB: Edward Said died ten years ago. He was one of the last Palestinians, with Mahmoud Darwish, that the majority of the Palestinians looked up to. I know you knew him well. Can

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you end by giving us a few words on Edward Said and the role he played during his

Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017

by Ian Black  · 2 Nov 2017  · 674pp  · 201,633 words

a familiar truth about how the conflict is perceived: Zionists have tended to focus on their intentions in immigrating to Palestine; Arabs on the results, and especially, in the words of Edward Said, of ‘having their territory settled by foreigners’.1 Anthropological and ethnographic research – conveying the texture of remembered experience – can be

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to be a Palestinian, most famously in his 1964 poem ‘Identity Card’: Write down! I am an Arab And my identity card number is fifty thousand I have eight children And the ninth will come after a summer Will you be angry?36 The poem’s curious power, as Edward Said wrote later

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get to permanent status, Israel will have permanently altered realities on the ground.’44 The American-Palestinian intellectual Edward Said attacked the ‘supine abjectness’ of the PLO, and argued that Israel’s leaders never intended to promote Palestinian self-determination and statehood, but rather to perpetuate the occupation and confine autonomy to strictly municipal

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during a protest in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, February 2017. Notes LANGUAGE MATTERS 1 Yusif Sayigh, Arab Economist, Palestinian Patriot, p. 190. PREFACE 1 Edward Said, The Question of Palestine, p. 81. 2 Elia Etkin, The ingathering of (non-human) exiles: the creation of the Tel Aviv Zoological Garden animal collection

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to Beersheba. 34 Sari Nusseibeh, Once Upon a Country, p. 67. 35 Efrat Ben-Zeev, Remembering Palestine, p. 91. 36 Arabic/English text in http://www.barghouti.com/poets/darwish/bitaqa.asp. 37 Edward Said, The Question of Palestine, p. 155. 38 Sayigh, Armed Struggle, p. 88. 39 Andrew Gowers and Tony Walker, Behird

The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East

by Robert Fisk  · 2 Jan 2005  · 1,800pp  · 596,972 words

Lara Marlowe, Irish Times, 4 November 2000, “Israel accused of turning peace process into a sham, backed by U.S.” 421 “the Pétain of the Palestinians”: Edward Said interview in Irish Times, 3 July 1999, “The Powerful Voice of the Outsider.” 426 As long ago as 1978: See The Times, 2 February 1978

Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians

by Ilan Pappé, Noam Chomsky and Frank Barat  · 9 Nov 2010  · 279pp  · 72,659 words

case of Israel-Palestine, a one-state solution will arise only on the U.S. model: with extermination or expulsion of the indigenous population. A sensible approach would be advocacy of a binational solution, recognizing that the territory now includes two fairly distinct societies. The second point is that Edward Said—an old

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are not predictable: too much depends on will and choice. Would you agree with Edward Said when he said, “The most demoralising aspect of the Zionist-Palestinian conflict is the almost total opposition between the mainstream Israeli and Palestinian points of view…Might it not make sense for a group of universally respected historians

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. In many ways, the second and third generations of missionaries became the first “Orientalists”—in the full negative meaning of the term. But even before Edward Said attracted our attention to this group, another Edward was warning, forty years before Said’s Orientalism appeared, of the dubious impact of the Orientalist missionary

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his secretary of state were highly impressed by the Palestinian delegation and the leadership evolving around Orient House. Even before Madrid, the beginning of an American dialogue with the PLO in 1988—through the mediation of some American Palestinians, including the late Edward Said and Ibrahim Abu-Lughod—contributed to the continued improvement in

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of Palestine as a result of the emergence and success of the Zionist movement. Jews expelled, massacred, destroyed, and raped in that year, and generally behaved like all the other colonialist movements operating in the Middle East and Africa since the beginning of the nineteenth century. In normal circumstances, as Edward Said recommended

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be increased to infinity (all victims being defined as “terrorists”). I have also agreed all along with personal friends who had contacts with the Palestinian leadership (in particular, Edward Said and Eqbal Ahmad) that a nonviolent struggle would have had considerable prospects for success. And I think it still does, in fact, the

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28, 2007. 7 Michael MccGwire, “The Rise and Fall of the NPT: an Opportunity for Britain,” International Affairs 81, no. 1 (2005): 115-40. 8 Edward Said, “Palestinians under Siege,” London Review of Books 22, no. 24 (December 14, 2000). 9 Marvin Kalb and Carol Saivetz, “The Israeli-Hezbollah War of 2006: The

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.org/leupp02242007.html. CHAPTER THREE: STATE OF DENIAL 1 Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (New York: Alfred K. Knopf, Inc., 1993). 2 The scope of the tragedy is well described in a collection of articles in Ghada Karmi and Eugene Cortran, eds., The Palestinian Exodus, 1948-1988 (London: Ithaca Press, 1999). 3 Pappé

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shows how the complex history of the Palestinian Left before the Zionist destruction of historic Palestine was defined by secularism and solidarity between Arab and Jewish workers. With a new introduction and afterword by the author. • ISBN 9781608460724 The Pen and the Sword: Conversations with Edward Said David Barsamian, introductions by Eqbal Ahmad and

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scholar and critic Edward Said, covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Said’s groundbreaking work of literary scholarship, Orientalism; music; and much

Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians (Updated Edition) (South End Press Classics Series)

by Noam Chomsky  · 1 Apr 1999

it happened to be the native village of the parents of U.S. Senator James Abourezk. According to Edward Said, the Ma’alot attack was “preceded by weeks of sustained Israeli napalm bombing of Palestinian refugee camps in southern Lebanon” with over 200 killed.12 It might also be noted that the taking

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Post, July 23, 1982. See also David K. Shipler, New York Times, July 25, 1982. Ha’aretz, Davar, Nov. 2I: Davar. Nov. 22. 1982. Edward Said, Question of Palestine, pp. 172, 249. See below, pp.1901. On the Ma’alot attack, see Hirst, The Gun and the Olive Branch, pp. 329-30. See

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responded with enthusiasm.” “Those who murdered Rabin, and those who incited them, didn’t do so because they opposed plans to create a Palestinian Bantustan,” the New Statesman correspondent reported from Jerusalem, chiding Edward Said for thinking otherwise. “No: they knew that the course Rabin was charting would lead, unless stopped, to a

Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent

by Robert F. Barsky  · 2 Feb 1997

in Europe, where antiSemitism was well entrenched and menacing. Like Avukahand indeed like Chomsky (from a Jewish perspective) and Edward Said (from a Palestinian perspective)Hashomer Hatzair believed in Arab-Jewish cooperation, first in Palestine and then in Israel. An example of this kind of cooperation is given in a report issued by the

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complex than they are portrayed to be, and the facts are often difficult to procure. The Israeli situation is a good example: A personal friend, Edward Said, has also criticized me for not paying attention to Arab sources and looking at things always from the Jewish-Israeli-Western point of view, and

How the World Works

by Noam Chomsky, Arthur Naiman and David Barsamian  · 13 Sep 2011  · 489pp  · 111,305 words

tell you that, with many personal examples. The Mideast About 1980, you, Eqbal Ahmad [Pakistani scholar and activist, and professor at Hampshire College] and Edward Said [noted author, Palestinian activist and professor at Columbia] had a meeting with some top PLO officials. You’ve said you found this meeting rather revealing. Revealing, but

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veiled antisemitic remarks in front of a public audience. The Israeli lobby backed off and the US did what it wanted. This is from Edward Said: “The crisis in Palestinian ranks deepens almost daily. Security talks between Israel and the PLO are advertised as a ‘breakthrough’ one day, stalled and deadlocked the next

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society I can think of. Support for the Israeli-US position in the Middle East has been largely uniform among American intellectuals, except for yourself, Edward Said and a handful of others. What do you attribute that to? Things shifted very dramatically in 1967. The love affair between American intellectuals and Israel

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of people don’t—they may even get poorer—and our military power helps things stay that way. In his book Representations of the Intellectual, Edward Said writes, “One of the shabbiest of all intellectual gambits is to pontificate about abuses in someone else’s society and to excuse exactly the same

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This Time We Went Too Far

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Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation

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White City, Black City: Architecture and War in Tel Aviv and Jaffa

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The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories

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Rethinking Islamism: The Ideology of the New Terror

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