Zochrot gallery is glad to invite:
Symposium launching Ronnen Ben-Arie and Marcel Svirsky new book: From Shared Life to Co-Resistance in Historic Palestine” (Rowman&Littlefield International Publishing, London)
Speakers: Honaida Ghanim, Tom Pessah
Respondents: Ronnen Ben-Arie and Marcel Svirkski
Facilitation: Debby Farber, Zochrot
Wednesday, 27th of December, 2017, 20:00-22:00, Zochrot's office, 34 Itzhak Sade street, Floor no. 4, room no. 400, Tel Aviv. (note the event will be conducted in Hebrew)
For further details, please contact: debby@zochrot.org
About the book:
How do we contribute to the decolonisation of Palestine? In what ways can we divest from settler arrangements in the present-day? Exploring the Zionist takeover of Palestine as a settler colonial case, this book argues that in studying the elimination of native life in Palestine, the loss of Arab-Jewish shared life cannot be ignored. Muslims, Christians, and Jews, shared a life in Ottoman Palestine and in a different way during British rule. The attempt to eliminate native life involved the destruction of Arab society – its cultural hegemony and demographic superiority – but also the racial rejection of Arab-Jewish sociabilities, of shared life. Thus the settlerist process of dispossession of the Arabs was complemented with the destruction of the social and cultural infrastructure that made Arab-Jewish life a historical reality. Both operations formed Israeli polity. Can this understanding contribute to present-day Palestinian resistance and a politics of decolonisation? In this book, the authors address this question by exploring how the study of elimination of shared life can inform Arab-Jewish co-resistance as a way of defying Israel’s Zionist regime. Above and beyond opposing an unacceptable state of affairs, this book engages with past and present to discuss possible futures.