Sean Jacobs & Jon Soske 
Apartheid Israel 
The Politics of an Analogy

In
Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy, eighteen scholars of Africa and its diaspora reflect on the similarities and differences between apartheid-era South Africa and contemporary Israel, with an eye to strengthening and broadening today’s movement for justice in Palestine.

Table of Content

Introduction: Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy by Jon Soske and Sean Jacobs


1. On Palestine by Achille Mbembe

2. From South Africa: Solidarity with Palestine by Salim Vally

3. Neoliberal Apartheid by Andy Clarno

4. Apartheid’s “Little Israel”: Bophuthatswana by Arianna Lissoni

5. The Historian of Apartheid by TJ Tallie

6. Apartheid as Solution by Bill Freund

7. Along the edges of comparison by Melissa Moorman

8. Academic Freedom and Academic Boycotts by Shireen Hassim

9. Apartheid’s Black Apologists by Robin DG Kelley

10. Through the Looking Glass: From South Africa to Palestine/Israel and Back Again, by Heidi Grunebaum

11. The last colony by Melissa Levin

About the author

Sean Jacobs is an assistant professor of international affairs at the New School in New York City and the founder of the popular website
Africa Is a Country.


Jon Soske is an assistant professor of modern African history at Mc Gill University and the author of
Boundaries of Diaspora: African Nationalism and the Indian Diaspora in 20th-Century South Africa.