The Center congratulates Areej Sabbagh-Khoury on the publication of her new book, Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba, available now from Stanford University Press. Areej is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was one of our first Ibrahim Abu-Lughod postdoctoral fellows in 2015.
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Among the most progressive of Zionist settlement movements, Hashomer Hatzair proclaimed a brotherly stance on Zionist-Palestinian relations. Until the tumultuous end of the British Mandate, movement settlers voiced support for a binational Jewish-Arab state and officially opposed mass displacement of Palestinians. But, Hashomer Hatzair colonies were also active participants in the process that ultimately transformed large portions of Palestine into sovereign Jewish territory. Areej Sabbagh-Khoury investigates this ostensible dissonance, tracing how three colonies gained control of land and their engagement with Palestinian inhabitants on the edges of the Jezreel Valley/Marj Ibn 'Amer.
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