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Nahla Abdo reviews Traces of Racial Exception
Traces of Racial Exception: Racializing Israeli Settler Colonialism by Ronit Lentin. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. 224 pages. $84.00 cloth, $27.96 paper, $21.57 e-book. Nahla Abdo Published online: 25 Jan 2021 Journal of Palestine Studies, January 2021 Location and methodology are crucial to understanding Ronit Lentin’s latest book, Traces of Racial Exception: Racializing Israeli Settler Colonialism,…
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Two cemetries: Waking from my Zionist dream
The photographs of two cemeteries come to mind as I think about my journey away from my former Zionist self. In the first photograph I am a skinny five years old, holding my beautiful blond mother’s hand as we are paying our respects at the funeral of Theodore Herzl, the so called founding father of…
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Ronit Lentin, Traces of Racial Exception: Racializing Israeli Settler Colonialism
Mahmoud Ababneh Journal of Holyland and Palestine Studies 19(2) https://www.euppublishing.com/…/10.3366/hlps.2020.0251 In Traces of Racial Exception, Ronit Lentin prefaces her book with a list of crimes that the Israeli settler-state committed against the indigenous peoples of Palestine. After each crime, Lentin concludes with but that’s not who we are, we are better than this (vii–viii). This…
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