Summary
Scholar cited by Magid Shihade for the counter-narrative to acquiescence and co-optation accounts of the 1948 Palestinians: a focus on coalition building and resistance, illustrated by his study of Kufr Yasif’s local council under military government (Settler Colonialism and Conflict: The Israeli State and its Palestinian Subjects, PDF p.12 / printed p.119).
Details
- “Contrary to narratives emphasising acquiescence and co-optation, Ahmad Sa’di focuses on coalition building and resistance. Resistance started immediately after 1948 and continues to this day” (Settler Colonialism and Conflict: The Israeli State and its Palestinian Subjects, PDF p.12 / printed p.119). The note printed against this sentence (note 18) lists only Ian S. Lustick’s The Arabs in the Jewish State (1980); the discrepancy is recorded under Open questions on the source page.
- Sa’di uses the case of Kafr Yassif to illustrate his argument (note 19, to ‘Control and resistance at a Local-Level Institutions: A Study of Kafr Yassif’s Local Council under Military Government’, Arab Studies Quarterly, 3, 23 (2001) [citation as printed]) (Settler Colonialism and Conflict: The Israeli State and its Palestinian Subjects, PDF p.12, 16 / printed p.119, 123).
- From Sa’di’s study, together with Shihade’s own archival work in Kafr Yassif, comes the account of the early coalition between nationalists and communists in the village challenging attacks on the local council headed by Yanni Yanni, and of the residents’ challenges to land confiscation and to the military governor’s attempted deportation of refugees sheltering in the village (Settler Colonialism and Conflict: The Israeli State and its Palestinian Subjects, PDF p.12 / printed p.119).
Related pages
Settler Colonialism and Conflict: The Israeli State and its Palestinian Subjects, Kufr Yasif, Yanni Yanni, Remainers