Gaza Faces History
03 October 2024Imprint: Footnote Press
Synopsis
'Enzo Traverso delivers a stinging riposte, rigorously anchored in his mastery of European Jewish history, to the virtually unanimous sanctification by Western elites of Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, and their dishonest weaponization of anti-Semitism (in some cases by true anti-Semites on the far right) to attack supporters of Palestinian rights' Rashid Khalidi, author of THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR ON PALESTINE
Is the destruction of Gaza only a consequence of the October 7, 2023 attack, or is it also the outcome of a long process of dispossession and eradication? Do Palestinians have the right to resist the occupation? Is talking about genocide anti-Semitism? Enzo Traverso goes to the root of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by calling history into question and offers a critical interpretation that overturns the one-sided perspective from which we have become accustomed to observing what is happening in Gaza.
Is the destruction of Gaza only a consequence of the October 7, 2023 attack, or is it also the outcome of a long process of dispossession and eradication? Do Palestinians have the right to resist the occupation? Is talking about genocide anti-Semitism? Enzo Traverso goes to the root of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by calling history into question and offers a critical interpretation that overturns the one-sided perspective from which we have become accustomed to observing what is happening in Gaza.
Details
03 October 2024128 pages
9781804441787Imprint: Footnote Press
Reviews
Enzo Traverso delivers a stinging riposte, rigorously anchored in his mastery of European Jewish history, to the virtually unanimous sanctification by Western elites of Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, and their dishonest weaponization of anti-Semitism (in some cases by true anti-Semites on the far right) to attack supporters of Palestinian rightsRashid Khalidi, author of THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR ON PALESTINE
In the face of a massive attempt at distortion of facts comes this lucid analysis that explains, among other things, why the West is unable and unwilling to stop arming Israel, how the memory of the Holocaust is utilized in the defense of Israel, and how Israel succeeds in posing as the victim while destroying Gaza under a hail of bombs and much, much moreRaja Shehadeh, author of WE COULD HAVE BEEN FRIENDS, MY FATHER AND I and WHAT DOES ISRAEL FEAR FROM PALESTINE?
One of the world's leading exemplars of the virtues of thinking with history, Enzo Traverso offers a uniquely important voice of critique: his latest intervention, impassioned and searching, could not be more timelyMark Mazower, author of DARK CONTINENT: EUROPE'S TWENTIETH CENTURY
In this somber and eloquent book, Enzo Traverso situates the atrocities of October 7, and Israel's destruction of Gaza, in a historical sequence that encompasses both the Shoah and the Nakba, the crimes of Nazism and the crimes of colonization. The result is a work of erudition and moral gravitas, offering a devastating indictment of the rhetorical subterfuge by which Israel and its supporters in the West have justified Gaza's slaughterAdam Shatz, author of THE REBEL'S CLINIC: THE REVOLUTIONARY LIVES OF FRANTZ FANON