Index: Sources, F

• Palestine: The Legitimacy of Hope — Richard Falk, Palestine: The Legitimacy of Hope (Just World Books, 2014): a collection of the former UN Special Rapporteur’s 2010-2013 blog posts around his thesis of a Palestinian legitimacy struggle — nonviolent, law- and morality-based soft power and global solidarity (above all BDS) against a United States-mediated peace process he argues cannot deliver justice. Read in full: PDF p.1-297 of 297 in parts 1-5 of 5 (front matter, Introduction, Parts 1-7 complete, A Concluding Note, Acknowledgments and the full endnotes).
• The Political Economy of Israeli Occupation: What is Colonial about It? — Leila Farsakh, The Political Economy of Israeli Occupation: What is Colonial about It? (Electronic Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, No. 8, Spring 2008): the occupation as a colonial structure of land appropriation without the people and imposed economic dependency, restructured rather than ended by Oslo through institutionalised Israeli security, a constrained Palestinian Authority and donor subcontracting. Read in full, PDF p.1-14 of 14.
• Rethinking Statehood in Palestine — Leila H. Farsakh (ed.), Rethinking Statehood in Palestine: Self-Determination and Decolonization Beyond Partition (University of California Press, 2021): an edited collection arguing the Palestinian state project’s historical role has ended and self-determination must be rearticulated beyond partition. Read in full, PDF p.1-329 of 329.
• Governing Gaza — Ilana Feldman, Governing Gaza: Bureaucracy, Authority, and the Work of Rule, 1917-1967 (Duke University Press, 2008): a historical ethnography of Gaza’s civil service under the British Mandate and Egyptian Administration, on reiterative bureaucratic authority and tactical government. Read in full, PDF p.1-343 of 343.
• A Shadow over Palestine — 2015. Keith P. Feldman, A Shadow over Palestine: The Imperial Life of Race in America (University of Minnesota Press, 2015): Israel and Palestine as constitutive of race in the United States, 1960-1985, through Baldwin, Resolution 3379 and Sayegh, Black Power’s Palestine, Jewish conversions, Said and the AAUG, women of color feminisms and the Lebanon conjuncture, and an Epilogue to Durban, BDS and the ASA boycott. Read in full, lines 1-3994 of 3994.