A History of False Hope
eBook - ePub

A History of False Hope

Investigative Commissions in Palestine

  1. 432 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

A History of False Hope

Investigative Commissions in Palestine

About this book

This book offers a provocative retelling of Palestinian political history through an examination of the international commissions that have investigated political violence and human rights violations. More than twenty commissions have been convened over the last century, yet no significant change has resulted from these inquiries. The findings of the very first, the 1919 King-Crane Commission, were suppressed. The Mitchell Committee, convened in the heat of the Second Intifada, urged Palestinians to listen more sympathetically to the feelings of their occupiers. And factfinders returning from a shell-shocked Gaza Strip in 2008 registered their horror at the scale of the destruction, but Gazans have continued to live under a crippling blockade.

Drawing on debates in the press, previously unexamined UN reports, historical archives, and ethnographic research, Lori Allen explores six key investigative commissions over the last century. She highlights how Palestinians' persistent demands for independence have been routinely translated into the numb language of reports and resolutions. These commissions, Allen argues, operating as technologies of liberal global governance, yield no justice—only the oppressive status quo. A History of False Hope issues a biting critique of the captivating allure and cold impotence of international law.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. List of Abbreviations
  9. List of Major Commissions on Palestine
  10. Introduction. International Law as a Way of Being
  11. 1. Petitioning Liberals: The King-Crane Commission
  12. 2. Universalizing Liberal Internationalism: The Arab Revolt and the Boycott of the Peel Commission
  13. 3. The Humanitarian Politics of Jewish Suffering: The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry
  14. 4. Third World Solidarity at the General Assembly: A UN Special Committee on Human Rights
  15. 5. The Silences of Democratic Listening: The Mitchell Committee
  16. 6. The Shift to Crime and Punishment: UN Missions Renewing Hope in International Law
  17. Conclusion. Toward an Anthropology of International Law, and Next Time and Again for Palestine
  18. Notes
  19. References
  20. Index