A collection of interviews with some of the world's leading progressive thinkers on the movement for Palestinian liberation and its connections to struggles for justice across the globe.
As more and more people align themselves with the Palestinian people, Palestine in a World on Fire provides the global perspective and analysis needed to inform how we forge ahead on this path of newfound solidarity. Editors Ilan Pappé and Katherine Natanel have gathered a collection of interviews that are intimate, challenging, and rigorous-many of them conducted before October 7th but still startlingly prescient. The interviewees connect the struggle for Palestinian liberation to various liberatory movements around the world, simultaneously interrogating and recontextualizing their own positions given the ongoing aggression in Palestine. This incredible group includes Angela Y. Davis, Noam Chomsky, Judith Butler, Nadine El-Enany, Gabor Mate, Mustafa Barghouti, Yanis Varoufakis, Paul Gilroy, Elias Khoury, Gayatri Spivak, and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian.
Palestine in a World on Fire highlights the centrality of Palestine in struggles shared across the world: capitalism, imperialism, misogyny, neo-colonialism, racism, and more. Each conversation tackles urgent events and unfolding dynamics, and the scholar-activists interviewed here provide invaluable perspectives and insights, illuminating the richness and relevance of recent scholarship on Palestine.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Angela Davis: Towards transnational movements for justice
Chapter 2: Noam Chomsky: Impasse, internationalism and radical change
Chapter 3: Judith Butler: Humanity, violence and imagination
Chapter 4: Yanis Varoufakis: Crisis and disobedience
Chapter 5: Nadine El-Enany: Colonial violence and anticolonial resistance
Chapter 6: Paul Gilroy: Histories for the Future
Chapter 7: Mustafa Barghouti: Liberation and the Left — Failures, struggles and futures
Chapter 8: Elias Khoury: Times of struggle and cultural liberation
Chapter 9: Gabor Mate: Trauma and (the limits of) compassion
Chapter 10: Gayatri Spivak: Coloniality, subalternity and revolution in our times
Chapter 11: Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian: On life and death in Palestine
Index
Ilan Pappe, geboren 1954 in Haifa als Sohn deutscher Juden, die aus Deutschland geflüchtet waren, studierte in Jerusalem und promovierte in Oxford. Er ist einer der Protagonisten der »Neuen israelischen Historiker«, die für eine Revision der offiziellen Geschichtsschreibung des Zionismus und des Staates Israel und für einen kritischen Ausgleich mit den Palästinensern plädieren«. Er war Leiter des Friedensforschungsinstitut Givat Haviva, lehrte bis 2007 politische Wissenschaften an der Universität Haifa und ist derzeit Professor für Geschichte an der Universität Exeter.
