The Re-Emergence of the Single State Solution in Palestine/Israel

Countering an Illusion

Cherine Hussein

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9780815348900
• eBook ISBN: 9781317570370
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: International Relations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Providing the first in-depth intellectual and organizational mapping of the single state idea's recent resurgence in Palestine/Israel, this book enquires into its nature as a phenomenon of resistance, as well as into its potential as a counterhegemonic force in the making against the processes of Zionism.

Reconstructing this moment of re-emergence through primary material and interviews with diverse influential intellectuals—its analysis highlights their self-understandings, worldviews, strategies and perceptions of the phenomenon in which they are involved, while questioning whether the single state idea has the potential to become a Gramscian inspired movement of resistance against Zionism. In presenting this rare insight into a resistance movement in the making, this book resurrects an empowering image of Antonio Gramsci infused with the writings of Edward Said. This it does in an effort to both problematize the dominant interpretations of Gramsci's writings in International Relations, and to decolonise the abstract way in which resistance and counter hegemony are often studied in the discipline.

Contributing a mapping of a silenced alternative and hopeful way forward in the context of escalating violence, this book is essential reading for those studying the Arab-Israeli conflict, Middle East Politics and International Relations.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• List of acronyms
• Introduction
• Interlude: The many images of Antonio Gramsci
• 1. Edward Said and revitalizing Gramsci’s project of counterhegemony: Laying theoretical foundations
• 2. The context: The Oslo Accords and the hegemony of Zionist common sense
• 3. The re-emergence of the single state solution: An intellectual mapping of an emergent movement
• 4. The re-emergence of the single state solution: An organizational mapping of an emergent movement
• 5. Building a war of position: The tactic of BDS, anti-Zionist Jewish voices, and the single state solution
• Conclusion: Reflections on Saidian-Gramscian counterhegemony
• Appendix: Key figures in the resurgence of the single state solution (cited by the author)
• Bibliography
• Index