Oded Nir - Rethinking Israel and Palestine

The Middle East seems to be in perpetual crisis. One might expect a plethora of Marxist analyses of Israel and Palestine. Yet in the literature on Israel and Palestine there are hardly any studies of class, relations of production, or the relationship between the political and economic balance of forces over time. This edited volume brings a diverse array of Marxist-influenced interpretations of the present conjuncture in Israel and Palestine. The collection includes works by luminaries of social theory, such as Noam Chomsky and Fred Jameson, as well as leading scholars of Palestine (Raja Khalidi, Sherene Seikaly, and Orayb Aref Najjar) and Israel (Jonathan Nitzan, Nitzan Lebovic, and Amir Locker-Biletzki). It comprises the first-ever collection of Marxist-influenced writings on Palestine and Israel, and the relationship between them.

This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Rethinking Marxism .

Oded Nir teaches at the department of Classical, Middle Eastern, and Asian Languages and Cultures in Queens College, The City University of New Your, USA. He is the author of Signatures of Struggle (2018). He is the editor of the peer-reviewed quarterly CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture .

Joel Wainwright teaches in the Department of Geography at Ohio State University, Columbus, USA. He is the author of Decolonizing Development (2007), Geopiracy (2013), and Climate Leviathan (2018, with Geoff Mann). He is a member of the Editorial Board of Rethinking Marxism .

Marxist Perspectives

Edited by
Oded Nir and Joel Wainwright

First published 2020
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Chapters 15, 710 2020 Association for Economic and Social Analysis
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Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine
by Sherene Seikaly
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Oded Nir and Joel Wainwright

Fredric Jameson

Oded Nir and Joel Wainwright

Noam Chomsky, Joel Wainwright and Oded Nir

Raja Khalidi

Sherene Seikaly

Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan

Amir Locker-Biletzki

Nitzan Lebovic

Orayb Aref Najjar

The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Rethinking Marxism . When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:

Introduction

Oded Nir and Joel Wainwright

Rethinking Marxism , volume 30, issue 3 (July 2018) pp. 331332

Preface

Fredric Jameson

Rethinking Marxism, volume 30, issue 3 (July 2018) pp. 333335

Where is the Marxist Critique of Israel/Palestine?

Oded Nir and Joel Wainwright

Rethinking Marxism, volume 30, issue 3 (July 2018) pp. 336355

There Are Always Grounds for Seeking a World That Is More Free and More Just: An Interview with Noam Chomsky on Israel, Palestine, and Zionism

Noam Chomsky, Joel Wainwright and Oded Nir

Rethinking Marxism, volume 30, issue 3 (July 2018) pp. 356367

Nation and Class: Generations of Palestinian Liberation

Raja Khalidi

Rethinking Marxism, volume 30, issue 3 (July 2018) pp. 368392

Men of Capital in Mandate Palestine

Sherene Seikaly

Rethinking Marxism, volume 30, issue 3 (July 2018) pp. 393417

Arms and Oil in the Middle East: A Biography of Research

Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan

Rethinking Marxism, volume 30, issue 3 (July 2018) pp. 418440

Rethinking Settler Colonialism: A Marxist Critique of Gershon Shafir

Amir Locker-Biletzki

Rethinking Marxism, volume 30, issue 3 (July 2018) pp. 441461

The History of Political Melancholy as an Alternative History of Zionism

Nitzan Lebovic

Rethinking Marxism, volume 30, issue 3 (July 2018) pp. 462483

After the Fall: Palestinian Communist Journalism in the PostCold War World

Orayb Aref Najjar

Rethinking Marxism, volume 19, issue 3 (July 2007) pp. 337360

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Shimshon Bichler teaches political economy at colleges and universities in Israel. All of his publications are available under the Creative Commons licence from The Bichler & Nitzan Archives.

Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor Emeritus at MIT, USA, and Laureate Professor at the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA. He has written extensively on Israel/Palestine.

Fredric Jameson is Knut Schmidt-Nielsen Professor of Comparative Literature, a Professor of Romance Studies (French), and the Director of the Center for Critical Theory at Duke University, Durham, USA.

Raja Khalidi has conducted research and published and lectured widely on Palestinian economic conditions. He has been the Research Coordinator at the Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS).

Nitzan Lebovic is an Associate Professor of History and the Apter Chair of Holocaust Studies and Ethical Values at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, USA.

Amir Locker-Biletzki is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Azrieli Institute for Israel Studies at Concordia University, Canada. His work focuses on the history of communism in Palestine/Israel from cultural, postcolonial, and Marxist approaches.