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This Week In Palestine
Weekly Program
Host John Roberts and author Tom Abowd
 Truth & Justice Radio (WZBC)  Contact Contributor
Oct. 29, 2014, 5:27 p.m.
This morning’s entire program is devoted to our host's interview with Tufts University Professor Thomas P. Abowd. His new book is "Colonial Jerusalem, The Spatial Construction of Identity and Difference in a City of Myth, 1948–2012."

If you want to understand what is happening to Jerusalem as we speak, and you want to view it through the eyes of an anthropologist, you want to read Tom’s book. The Israeli narrative which dominates the understanding of most Americans, and virtually all of the Congress, is a narrative based mostly on a false history fabricated by Israel to justify its theft of Palestinian land to build the Israeli state. It started before 1948. It continues today. Colonial Jerusalem tells the real story, and we need these kinds of accounts to puncture the Israeli fabrication with facts…historical facts. This book can be an important tool for those of whose care about this issue and are working to bring justice to the Palestinian people. It begins with telling the truth to the American people. So we urge you to read Colonial Jerusalem, by Tom Abowd, published by Syracuse University Press. Tom joins the so-called new historians such as Ilan Pappé in providing us with the real narrative…the real story…the facts, which speak for themselves.

Quoting from the publisher's web page for Colonial Jerusalem (http://syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/spring-2014/colonial-jerusalem.html):

In one of the few anthropological works focusing on a contemporary Middle Eastern city, Colonial Jerusalem explores a vibrant urban center at the core of the decades-long Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This book shows how colonialism, far from being simply a fixture of the past as is often suggested, remains a crucial component of Palestinian and Israeli realities today. Abowd deftly illuminates everyday life under Israel’s long military occupation as it is defined by processes and conditions of "apartness" and separation as Palestinians are increasingly regulated and controlled. Abowd examines how both national communities are progressively divided by walls, checkpoints, and separate road networks in one of the most segregated cities in the world. Drawing upon recent theories on racial politics, colonialism, and urban spatial dynamics, Colonial Jerusalem analyzes the politics of myth, history, and memory across an urban landscape integral to the national cosmologies of both Palestinians and Israelis and meaningful to all communities.
This Week In Palestine (a weekly part of Truth and Justice Radio) is an award-winning three-quarter-hour segment of news from Palestine and discussion of issues relevant to the Palestinians' struggle for freedom from Israel's brutal military occupation and colonization of their homeland. It speaks from the point of view of Palestinians and those who care about them.

It's a regular part of Truth and Justice Radio, aired Sundays 6-10am ET on WZBC 90.3FM, Newton, MA, streaming and archived for two weeks at wzbc.org; TJR's website, truthandjusticeradio.org, has a link to This Week In Palestine archives back thru 1-6-2008; earlier editions are obtainable from radio4all.net or by navigating through our playlists. (At this important time, TJR has been airing a lot of Palestine coverage IN ADDITION to that provided by This Week In Palestine.) We hope you'll write to us at tjr@bluebottle.com if you rebroadcast our work, or have questions or comments.

This Week In Palestine 10-26-2014 Download Program Podcast
Meet Tom Abowd and his new book "Colonial Jerusalem"
00:43:28 1 Oct. 26, 2014
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