{"id":2665,"date":"2020-11-23T14:38:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T14:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/news\/bashir-bashir-leila-farsakh-the-arab-and-jewish-questions"},"modified":"2026-04-27T10:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:28:15","slug":"bashir-bashir-leila-farsakh-the-arab-and-jewish-questions","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/news\/bashir-bashir-leila-farsakh-the-arab-and-jewish-questions","title":{"rendered":"Bashir Bashir, Leila Farsakh: The Arab and Jewish Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Arab and Jewish Questions
\nGeographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond<\/h3>\n

Edited by Bashir Bashir and Leila Farsakh<\/h3>\n

Columbia University Press<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

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Nineteenth-century Europe turned the political status of its Jewish communities into the \u201cJewish Question\u201d, as both Christianity and rising forms of nationalism viewed Jews as the ultimate other. With the onset of Zionism, this \u201cquestion\u201d migrated to Palestine and intensified under British colonial rule and in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Zionism\u2019s attempt to solve the \u201cJewish Question\u201d created what came to be known as the \u201cArab Question\u201d, which concerned the presence and rights of the Arab population in Palestine. For the most part, however, Jewish settlers denied or dismissed the question they created, to the detriment of both Arabs and Jews in Palestine and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

This book brings together leading scholars to consider how these two questions are entangled historically and in the present day. It offers critical analyses of Arab engagements with the question of Jewish rights alongside Zionist and non-Zionist Jewish considerations of Palestinian identity and political rights. Together, the essays show that the Arab and Jewish questions, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in which they have become subsumed, belong to the same thorny history. Despite their major differences, the historical Jewish and Arab questions are about the political rights of oppressed groups and their inclusion within exclusionary political communities-a question that continues to foment tensions in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. Shedding new light on the intricate relationships among Orientalism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, colonialism, and the impasse in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this book reveals the inseparability of Arab and Jewish struggles for self-determination and political equality.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The book heavily draws on conversations in the frame of the Kreisky Forum's project \u201cArab Engagements with Jewish Question\u201d and \u201cJewish Engagements with the Arab Question\u201d.<\/div>\n
Contributors include Gil Anidjar, Brian Klug, Amal Ghazal, Ella Shohat, Hakem Al-Rustom, Hillel Cohen, Yuval Evri, Derek Penslar, Jacqueline Rose, Moshe Behar, Maram Masarwi, and the editors, Bashir Bashir and Leila Farsakh.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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About the Author<\/h5>\n

Bashir Bashir<\/strong><\/a> is associate professor in the Department of Sociology, Political Science, and Communication at the Open University of Israel and a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. He is coeditor of The Politics of Reconciliation in Multicultural Societies<\/i> (2008) and The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History<\/i> (Columbia, 2018).<\/p>\n

Leila Farsakh<\/strong><\/a> is associate professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her books include Palestinian Labour Migration to Israel: Labour, Land, and Occupation<\/i>, second edition (2012)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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