Contact Us

Zionism is an extension of Western imperialism in the Holy Land: Historian

Prominent Palestinian American historian Ussama Makdisi underscores the paradox of European antisemitism contributing to sympathy for Zionism and explores how the Jewish Question influenced Western backing for the movement, citing the example of British Secretary Edwin Montagu's opposition to the Balfour Declaration.

  • 11
  • 12
- TRANSNATIONAL SUPPORT FOR THE PALESTINIAN STRUGGLE Comparing the Palestinian struggle from the 1960s to the 1980s which was led by Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Makdisi said support for Palestine is now even wider and more popular, not only in the Global South as before but also in the West.