Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine

'Extremely convincing' - Electronic Intifada
For decades we have spoken of the 'Israel-Palestine conflict', but what if our understanding of the issue has been wrong all along? This book explores how the concept of settler colonialism provides a clearer understanding of the Zionist movement's project to establish a Jewish state in Palestine, displacing the Palestinian Arab population and marginalizing its cultural presence. 
Jeff Halper argues that the only way out of a colonial situation is decolonization: the dismantling of Zionist structures of domination and control and their replacement by a single democratic state, in which Palestinians and Israeli Jews forge a new civil society and a shared political community.
To show how this can be done, Halper uses the 10-point program of the One Democratic State Campaign as a guide for thinking through the process of decolonization to its post-colonial conclusion. Halper's unflinching reframing will empower activists fighting for the rights of the Palestinians and democracy for all.

Jeff Halper is the head of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and a founding member of the One Democratic State Campaign. He is the author of War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification (Pluto, 2015), An Israeli in Palestine (Pluto, 2010), Obstacles to Peace (ICAHD, 2003 and subsequent editions) and Redemption and Revival: The Jewish Yishuv in Jerusalem in the Nineteenth Century (Westview, 1991).

Foreword by Nadia Naser-Najjab
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Colonist Who Refuses, the Comrade in Joint Struggle
PART I ZIONISM AS SETTLER COLONIAL PROJECT
1. Analysis Matters: Beginning with Settler Colonialism Acknowledgements
2. Zionism: A Settler Colonial Project
PART II THREE CYCLES OF ZIONIST COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT
3. Settler "Invasion" and Foundational Violence: The Pre-State Cycle (1880s-1948)
4. The Israeli State Cycle (1948-67)
5. The Occupation Cycle (1967-Present): Completing the Settler Colonial Project
PART III DECOLONIZING ZIONISM, LIBERATING PALESTINE
6. Decolonization: Dismantling the Dominance Management Regime
7. Constructing a Bridging Vision and Set of Acknowledgements
8. A Plan of Decolonization
9. Towards Post-coloniality
10. Addressing the Fears and Concerns of a Single Democratic State
A Last Word: Being Political
Notes
Index