Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence, and Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression Bishara Amahl
Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence, and Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression Bishara Amahl Palestinians living on different sides of the Green Line make up approximately one-fifth of Israeli…
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Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence, and Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression Bishara Amahl
Palestinians living on different sides of the Green Line make up approximately one-fifth of Israeli citizens and about four-fifths of the population of the West Bank. Yet, obstacles inhibit their ability to speak to each other and as a collective. In both groups, activists assert that they share a single political struggle for national liberation.
Crossing a Line enters these distinct environments for political expression and action of Palestinians who carry Israeli citizenship and Palestinians subject to Israeli military occupation in the West Bank, and considers how Palestinians are differently impacted by dispossession, settler colonialism, and militarism.Amahl Bishara looks to sites of political practice-journalism, historical commemorations, street demonstrations, social media, in prison, and Geopolitical boundaries fragment Palestinians into ever smaller groups.