In the hopes of promoting justice, peace, and solidarity for and with the Palestinian people, Udi Aloni joins with Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, and Judith Butler to confront the core issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Their bold question: Will a new generation of Israelis and Palestinians dare to walk together toward a joint Israel-Palestine? Through a collage of meditation, interview, diary, and essay, Aloni and his interlocutors present a personal, intellectual, and altogether provocative account rich with the insights of philosophy and critical theory. They ultimately foresee the emergence of a binational Israeli-Palestinian state, incorporating the work of Walter Benjamin, Edward Said, and Jewish theology to recast the conflict in secular theological terms.
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- PROLOGUE THE VISIT OF THE THREE MAGI TO THE HOLY LAND
- Slavoj Žižek in Ramallah
- Alain Badiou in Haifa
- Judith Butler in Sheikh-Jarrah
- 1 THEOLOGY
- A Manifesto for the Jewish-Palestinian Arabic-Hebrew State
- Why We Support Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions
- The Star of Redemption with a Split א
- 2 BODY
- Samson the Non-European
- Pnay El (Face of God)
- Jocasta’s Dream
- 3 PLACE
- The Specters of a Borrowed Village
- For Palestine Is Missing from Palestine
- The Fish Who Became a Shahid
- Jenin and Homeopathy
- A Murder Is a Murder Is a Murder
- 4 POLITICS
- Trust Your Dreams
- Thus Spoke the Left
- The Betrayal of the Peace Camp
- From Now on Say I Am a Palestinian Jew
- And Who Shall I Say Is Calling?
- Come Out of Your Political Closets
- This Time It’s Not Funny!
- Elementary, My Dear Schnabel
- What Do You Mean When You Say “Left”?
- 5 ART
- An Angel Under Siege
- Local Angel
- Holy Language, Holy Place
- Forgiveness
- An Angel I Borrowed
- Stabat Mater
- 6 LANGUAGE
- “The Jew Is Within You, But You, You Are in the Jew”
- What Does a Jew Want? On the Film Local Angel
- “I will tremble the underground” On the Film Forgiveness
- Angel for a New Place On the Film Local Angel
- The Four Dimensions of Art On the Film Forgiveness
- Existence on the Boundary On the Film Kashmir: Journey to Freedom
- There are some muffins there if you want. . . .
- EPILOGUE
- Oh, Weakness; or, Shylock with a Split S
- Jenin in Wonderland
- MY VERY SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Pledge to Our Language
- We Lacked a Present
- An Opening for an Interview
- Who Is a Terrorist?
- A Man Goes
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