A    JOURNAL    ON    RACISM,    EMPIRE    AND    GLOBALISATION Volume 52 January–March 2011 Number 3

Constructions of Palestine

Introduction JENNY BOURNE and HAZEL WATERS

United States policy and Palestine: Oslo, the Intifada and erasure NASEER ARURI

Bearing witness in Palestinian resistance literature TAHRIR HAMDI

(R&B) rhythm and blues: post-traffic lights in Ramallah and Al-Bireh City YAZAN AL-KHALILI

Message from a Palestinian prisoner MARWAN BARGHOUTI

From Khiam to Guantánamo and back: ex-prisoners and the transformation of perception VICTORIA BRITTAIN

Israeli state power and its liberal alibis DAN FREEMAN-MALOY

Commentary

A tribe by any other name: across the Mediterranean cultural divide OMAR BARGHOUTI

Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia – new enemies, old patterns SABINE SCHIFFER and CONSTANTIN WAGNER

Campaigning against Israel’s arms suppliers CORPORATE WATCH

Reviews

Angel of Palestine: a review article of Hidden Histories of Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean by Basem Ra‘ad (Jonathan Scott)

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