The International State Crime Initiative (ISCI), which is hosted by Queen Mary University of London, has produced a special issue of the journal, State Crime: Palestine, Palestinians, and Israel’s State Criminality. Devoted not only to Israel’s state crimes but also to Palestinian resistance, it has been published ahead of next year’s 50th anniversary of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and Golan Heights.
Penny Green and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian write in their Introduction that the special issue demands that we ask about state violence in relation to historic Palestine, since silence about Israeli state criminality allows for the continuation of the settler colonial regime of dispossession. Every article speaks to the complicity or weakness of the international community in confronting Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians.
As contributors Victoria Mason and Richard Falk argue, BDS is one of the very few non-violent (and effective) strategies possible in the face of the “unwillingness by the United Nations (UN), European Union (EU) and powerful countries to take strong actions against Israel”. Israel has predictably, and unconscionably, denounced both BDS and its supporters as anti-Semitic – a traditional Israeli public relations (PR) tactic designed explicitly to deflect attention from the very grave issues, outlined throughout this volume, that BDS is challenging.
To order a copy please send an email to: [email protected] include your name and full address. Prices – $15.00 or £10.00 plus postage at cost. There will also be a Journal Launch & Reception on Monday, 20th June 2016, 6pm to 8pm, at Queen Mary University of London, E1 4NS. Book your free place here.
The publishers have provided Free Speech on Israel with the full Introduction that you can read below.
CONTENTS
Introduction
Penny Green and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
Articles
The Quantum Mechanics of Israeli Totalitarianism
Mark LeVine
Palestine/Israel and State Criminality: Exception, Settler Colonialism and Racialization
Ronit Lentin
Colonialism and Apartheid Against Fragmented Palestinians: Putting the Pieces Back Together
Rinad Abdulla
Evicting Palestine
Penny Green and Amelia Smith
Children’s Rights, State Criminality and Settler Colonialism: Violence and Child Arrest In Occupied East Jerusalem
Bella Kovner and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
Theologizing State Crime
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Yossi David and Sarah Ihmoud
Assessing Nonviolence in the Palestinian Rights Struggle
Victoria Mason and Richard Falk
Reviews
– Shute review of Walklate and McGarry, Criminology and War: Transgressing the Borders
– Nurse review of Sollund (ed.), Green Harms and Crimes: Critical Criminology in a Changing World
– Beyerle review of Whyte (ed.), How Corrupt Is Britain?
