Popular Resistance in Palestine

Preface 1 Introduction Chapter 2 What we want: Plurality, Justice, Human Rights 3 The Logic of Popular Resistance 4 Local Context of Popular Resistance 5 Popular Resistance during the Ottoman Rule 6 Balfour, Buraq, and Zionist Buildup (1917-1935) 7 The Great Revolt of 1936-1939 8 Devastation to Nakba 1939-1948 9 From Nakba to Naksa 1948-1967 10 One State of Oppression 1967-1986 11 Intifadat AlHijara 1987-1993 12 The Oslo Years and AlAqsa Intifada 13 Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions 14 Conclusions and Outlook to the Future Appendix. Examples of local popular resistance groups and organizations Index

Mazin B. Qumsiyeh is a professor at Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities and works with a number of civil society organizations. He has published over 1000 articles in newspapers, journals, books, and internet outlets. His previous books include Sharing the Land of Canaan (Pluto, 2004) and Mammals of the Holy Land (1996).

Written with conviction and supported by extensive notes, this book should be required reading for the politicians who deal with peace in Palestine and the citizens who vote for them. Summing up: Essential for all readership levels. -- CHOICE This is a timely and remarkable book written by the most important chronicler of contemporary popular resistance in Palestine. Mazin Qumsiyeh brilliantly evokes the spirit of Mahatma Gandhi, Edward Said, Rachel Corrie and many others, to tell the unvarnished truth about Palestine and Zionist settler colonialism. With its focus on 'history and activism from below', this is a work of enormous significance. Developing further his original ideas on human rights in Palestine, media activism, public policies and popular, non-violent resistance, Mazin Qumsiyeh's book is a must read for anyone interested in justice and how to produce the necessary breakthrough in the Israel-Palestine conflict. -- Nur Masalha Qumsiyeh's inspiring accounts of both the everyday and the most extraordinary acts of Palestinian indigenous resistance to colonialism expose the misguided claims that Palestinians have never tried nonviolence; in fact, they are among the experts, whose courage, creativity, and resilience are an inspiration to people of conscience everywhere. Even with the arms of a military superpower, the Israeli government's failure to quell the Palestinians' spirit and insistence on human rights reminds us that the greatest strength of all belongs to those with justice on their side, who will ultimately triumph. -- Anna Baltzer, author of Witness in Palestine Mazin Qumsiyeh's insider's chronicle of Palestinian civil resistance and its quest for self-reliance, independence, political rights, and self-liberation clearly shows that collective nonviolent action by Palestinians has been neither episodic nor an aberration, but remarkably consistent and for nearly a century. His sweeping account belongs on the bookshelves of Israelis who are fearful,