The Work of Comparison: Israel/Palestine and Apartheid
@article{Peteet2016TheWO, title={The Work of Comparison: Israel/Palestine and Apartheid}, author={Julie Peteet}, journal={Anthropological Quarterly}, year={2016}, volume={89}, pages={247 - 281} }
The comparison of apartheid with the 45-year Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, and its guiding ideology, Zionism, has a genealogy situated in global and local politics as well as in scholarship. This article asks why the comparison emerged with vigor in the mid-1990s and early 2000s, and weighs its contemporary usefulness. What sort of work does the comparison do and what does it illuminate about the rule of modern colonial states? The article positions this comparison in…
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