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Apartheid Israel

The Politics of an Analogy

Edited by Jon Soske and Sean Jacobs 

Foreword by Achille Mbembe

 

In Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy, twenty scholars of Africa and its diaspora reflect on the similarities and differences between apartheid-era South Africa and contemporary Israel, with an eye to strengthening and broadening today’s movement for justice in Palestine.


"The occupation of Palestine is the biggest moral scandal of our times, one of the most dehumanizing ordeals of the century we have just entered, and the biggest act of cowardice of the last half-century. And since all they are willing to offer is a fight to the finish, since what they are willing to do is to go all the way—carnage, destruction, incremental extermination—the time has come for global isolation."

—Achille Mbembe,
from the foreword

 

 

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Contributors include Teresa Barnes, Andy Clarno, Bill Freund, Kelly Gillespie, Ran Greenstein, Heidi Grunebaum, Shireen Hassim, M. Neelika Jayawardane, Robin D. G. Kelley, Melissa Levin, Arianna Lissoni, Mahmood Mamdani, Achille Mbembe, Marissa J. Moorman, Suren Pillay, Ishtiyaq Shukri, T. J. Tallie, and Salim Vally.

 

Africa is A Country and Haymarket Books will host a book party to celebrate the release of Apartheid Israel at the African Studies Association's Annual Meeting.

Remarks by editors JON SOSKE (McGill University) and SEAN JACOBS (The New School) and contributors MAHMOOD MAMDANI (Columbia/Makerere University) and SUREN PILLAY(University of the Western Cape).

Friday, November 20th at 7:30 pm
Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina
Nautilus 4 Room

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"The essays in Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy powerfully remind those of us who brought down the apartheid regime in South Africa that we must join with our Palestinian brothers and sisters in their fight to bring down the apartheid regime in Israel.”

–Ahmed Kathrada, Veteran Anti-Aparthied activist

"Offering more thoughtful questions than easy answers, this collection of essays aims to redefine our approach to the Israeli system of militarized racial discrimination and its relationship to South African apartheid. One of the recurring and most valuable issues probed by the collection is what the South African experience might tell us not only about the present situation in Palestine, but also about various possible paths towards a just peace."

–Saree Makdisi, UCLA

"The shadow of the anti-apartheid movement hangs over the BDS movement. This edited collection gives body to that shadow, making plain the useful lessons of a successful struggle to the aggravating occupation of the Palestinians."

–Vijay Prashad, editor of Letters to Palestine

 

 

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Review Copies are available on request
Educator and bulk discounts are available

If you are a journalist looking for a review copy, contact:
Jim Plank, Haymarket Books, [email protected]

 

SEAN JACOBS is an assistant professor of international affairs at the New School in New York City and the founder of the popular website Africa Is a Country.

JON SOSKE is an assistant professor of modern African history at McGill University and the co-editor of One Hundred Years of the ANC: Debating Liberation Histories Today.

ACHILLE MBEMBE is a research professor in history and politics at the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is also co-convenor of the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism (JWTC) and a visiting professor at Duke University's Department of Romance Studies.

 

 

 

 

Releasing November 17, 2015 | Trade Paper $13.95 | ISBN: 9781608465187