Book contents
- Anticolonialism and Social Thought
- LSE International Studies
- Anticolonialism and Social Thought
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Activists, Intellectuals, and Movements
- Part II Schools of Thought
- 6 Palestinian Anticolonial National Liberation in the Present
- 7 Genealogies of Auto-Centered Development
- 8 Anticolonial Sociology in Latin America, 1950–1970
- Part III Dissident Sociologists
- Part IV On Method
- Index
- References
6 - Palestinian Anticolonial National Liberation in the Present
from Part II - Schools of Thought
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 September 2025
Book contents
- Anticolonialism and Social Thought
- LSE International Studies
- Anticolonialism and Social Thought
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Activists, Intellectuals, and Movements
- Part II Schools of Thought
- 6 Palestinian Anticolonial National Liberation in the Present
- 7 Genealogies of Auto-Centered Development
- 8 Anticolonial Sociology in Latin America, 1950–1970
- Part III Dissident Sociologists
- Part IV On Method
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter examines a group of anticolonial and anti-imperialist intellectuals of different political persuasions thinking on Palestinian anticolonial national liberation at key moments in Palestinian history. It argues that central to these thinkers in their analysis of Palestine is a collapse in distinction between 1948- and 1967-occupied Palestine in Zionist settler-colonial ambitions in Palestine; the umbilical relationship between Zionism and US–Euro imperialism; as well as the centrality of Arab ruling classes to Zionist hegemony in Palestine.
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