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Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine

AVI SHLAIM

In this book Avi Shlaim places Israel’s policy towards the Gaza Strip under an uncompromising lens. He argues that recurrent attacks – what Israeli generals chillingly call “mowing the lawn” – are the inevitable result of Zionist settler colonialism whose basic objective is the elimination of the native population. In this war, however, Israel has gone beyond land-grabbing and ethnic cleansing to commit the crime of all crimes – genocide.

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978-1-7390902-2-7 Hardback 416 pages
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The brutal war launched by Israel on the Gaza Strip in response to the Hamas attack of 7 October 2023, or Operation Swords of Iron to give it its official name, was a major landmark in the blood-soaked history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This was the eighth Israeli military offensive in Gaza since Operation Cast Lead of December 2008. It was also the most savage, destructive, and lethal attack with a death toll that exceeded by far the combined total of the previous seven offensives.

Providing Israel with the weapons of mass murder as well as diplomatic protection at the UN, make America, Britain, and much of the European Union not only complicit but enablers of Israel’s egregious war crimes. Noam Chomsky observed, that “Settler colonialism is the most extreme and vicious form of imperialism.” There is no better illustration of this fundamental truth than Israel’s long and savage war against the Palestinian people.

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About The Author

Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Antony’s College, Avi Shlaim is a globally renowned historian of the modern Middle East. He held a British Academy Research Readership between 1995-1997; a British Academy Research Professorship between 2003-2006; he was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2006; and he was awarded a British Academy Medal for lifetime achievement in 2017.

An Arab Jew, he was born in Baghdad in 1945; grew up in Israel; served in the Israel Defence Forces; and received his university education at Cambridge and the London School of Economics. He is based at the Middle East Centre at St Antony’s College, where his main research interest continues to be the Arab-Israeli conflict, mostly recently the genocide in Gaza. He became widely known as one of the “New Historians,” a small group of Israeli scholars who put forward critical interpretations of the history of Zionism and Israel, from the late 1980s onwards.

Avi Shlaim is a believer in the subversive function of history, in using archival sources to challenge the received wisdom and to dispel national myths. He believes that “The historian’s most fundamental task is not to chronicle but to evaluate… to subject the claims of all the protagonists to rigorous scrutiny and reject all those claims, however deeply cherished, that do not stand up.”

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About The Author

Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Antony’s College, Avi Shlaim is a globally renowned historian of the modern Middle East. He held a British Academy Research Readership between 1995-1997; a British Academy Research Professorship between 2003-2006; he was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2006; and he was awarded a British Academy Medal for lifetime achievement in 2017.

An Arab Jew, he was born in Baghdad in 1945; grew up in Israel; served in the Israel Defence Forces; and received his university education at Cambridge and the London School of Economics. He is based at the Middle East Centre at St Antony’s College, where his main research interest continues to be the Arab-Israeli conflict, mostly recently the genocide in Gaza. He became widely known as one of the “New Historians,” a small group of Israeli scholars who put forward critical interpretations of the history of Zionism and Israel, from the late 1980s onwards.

Avi Shlaim is a believer in the subversive function of history, in using archival sources to challenge the received wisdom and to dispel national myths. He believes that “The historian’s most fundamental task is not to chronicle but to evaluate… to subject the claims of all the protagonists to rigorous scrutiny and reject all those claims, however deeply cherished, that do not stand up.”

Weight 820 g
Dimensions 223 × 147 × 53 mm