... focuses on what the secret testimony reveals about the Peel Commission's eventual decision to recommend partition. It turns out that Zionist leaders were less central to this decision than scholars have previously assumed, and that second-tier British colonial officials played a key role...

... for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints . 2019 imperialism Palestine mandate partition colonialism development Peel Commission LAILA PARSONS The Peel...

... was structured both in and by racialized logics. Nowhere was this point crystalized more aptly than in the Francophone poet Aimé Césaire s 1950 classic,Discours sur le colonialisme (translated into English asDiscourse on Colonialism in 1972). Césaire boldly highlights that the reason the European Jewish...

... by disentangling the complicated relationships between telecommunications, city planning, and economic development in one modern settler-colonial context. The author explores how planning and development norms are adulterated in Palestine-Israel to further a select set of interests, in the service of an evolving...

... contends, should be seen in comparative perspective as one of the last major colonial conflicts of the modern era, with the United States and Europe serving as the metropole, and their extension, Israel, operating as a semi-independent settler colony. An important feature of this long war has been...

... web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints . 2017 self-determination partition colonialism Orientalism UN Resolution 181 and Palestine sovereignty one-state solution LEILA FARSAKH This paper reexamines the Palestinian struggle for self-determination and the extent...

...Leila Farsakh This article reflects on the body of knowledge that has been constructed around the Palestinian economy. It traces the paradigm shifts between the two most commonly used theoretical frameworks—neoliberalism and colonialism—and assesses their success in analyzing and explaining...