with Ran Greenstein, 21 July 2019
Ran Greenstein, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa, challenges the mainstream nationalist narratives and movements that dominated the Israeli-Palestinian situation for too long.
In Zionism and its Discontents, he focusses on four different but connected attempts to resist Zionist dominance and the settlement project before and after 1948 and provides a compelling history of those radical movements of the past hundred years in Israel/Palestine that challenged the conceptual bases of Zionism in theory, and opposed its practices on the ground. It makes for sad and sobering reading, addressing the role of the Palestinian Communist Party, and then the bi-nationalist movement, before moving on to the period after 1948 when Palestinian attempts to challenge their unjust conditions of marginalisation became more frequent. Finally, he confronts the radical anti-Zionist Matzpen group, which operated from the early 1960s–80s.
