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Moshe Behar

Moshe Behar holds a PhD in Comparative Politics from Columbia University and is Associate Professor and Programme Director, Arabic & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Manchester, UK. His latest work is “Competing Marxisms, Cessation of (Settler) Colonialism, and the One-State Solution in Israel/Palestine,” forthcoming in The Arab and Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagementin Palestine and Beyond (Bashir Bashir & Leila Farsakh, eds, Columbia University Press).

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Judaism as an Occupied Territory

Judaism as an Occupied Territory

Moshe Behar

The most conspicuous example is the ongoing mass-carnage in, and of, Gaza, carried out by Israel, yet fully enabled by the US and Europe

Israel/ Palestine
In Search of a Game Changer -- Beyond Apartheid: Israel, Palestine, and Annexation

In Search of a Game Changer — Beyond Apartheid: Israel, Palestine, and Annexation

Moshe Behar

By Moshe Behar | – In this essay, Moshe Behar reflects on what the possible endgame is for the Israeli annexation of Palestinian land that is now being explored with the support of the American government. He suggests that Israel’s long-term objective goes beyond de facto or de jure apartheid. Behar concludes that two actions […]

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