Anti-Palestinianism

Timely and devastating. Saree and Ussama Makdisi break down the logic of anti-Palestinianism, its settler colonial roots, its ties to other racial regimes, and its enablers in much of the international community. The authors are clear: dismantling the colonial and racial order are preconditions for a free Palestine, and a genuinely free world

Robin D. G. Kelley, author of 'Freedom Dreams'

A groundbreaking book – it will shock and inspire you. It grippingly delineates the massive and relentless machinery behind anti-Palestinianism in the West: this deadly bigotry we need to and will overcome. Anti-Palestinianism is a foundational work that should be read in every house and taught in every classroom

Fady Joudah, author of 'Exhibit G'

How is it possible for the Palestinians to be openly dispossessed, subjugated, starved and massacred while the world’s liberal democracies watch on and do almost nothing to save them? Saree and Ussama Makdisi provide a well-argued and brilliantly nuanced answer to that question in this brave, timely and hugely important book. They minutely dissect the way the Palestinian people have been dehumanised and their lives devalued over the course of a century, their very existence erased, so preparing the way for their ethnic cleansing and genocide. Anti-Palestinianism is essential reading to understand the biggest moral issue of our time

William Dalrymple

This book is the most relevant piece of writing I have read anywhere for understanding our present predicament. It patiently and brilliantly deconstructs the greatest fallacy of our era: that those who struggle for Palestinian freedom are by definition antisemitic. Saree and Ussama Makdisi, the most prominent Palestinian intellectuals of our day, identify anti-Palestinianism as a form of racism driven by the engine of Zionist genocidal violence – a form of racism now seeking to negate Palestinian life itself. Anti-Palestinianism makes clear that we must confront this lethal prejudice urgently in order to build a politics of resistance and liberation

Eyal Weizman, founder of 'Forensic Architecture'

If Americans are like fish, anti-Palestinianism is like water—so ubiquitous it remains largely invisible. Naming it is crucial work. This is a genuinely important book

Peter Beinart, author of 'Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza'

A brilliant and compelling account of the forces that have systematically sought to erase Palestinian history and suppress Palestinian life. Combining historical depth with incisive political analysis, Anti-Palestinianism is a foundational framework for understanding Palestine and our present moment

Naomi Klein

This is an urgent book for a time of genocide. With clarity, rigor, and passion, Saree and Ussama Makdisi demonstrate what anti-Palestinianism is and how deeply it is embedded in the discourse around Israel. But this book offers hope too, for it shows how the narrative of erasure has been challenged, a struggle led by Palestinians themselves, who have stubbornly refused to surrender and disappear, who have never ceased calling to free Palestine

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Saree and Ussama Makdisi have finally given us the correct term for Zionism's erasure of Palestine. Israel's live-streamed genocide in Gaza has shattered the old forms of narrative hegemony once exercised by Zionism, only to have them replaced by ferocious, naked repression of Palestine advocacy under the false label of combating antisemitism

Rashid Khalidi, author of 'The Hundred Years' War on Palestine'