22%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Threat
Abeer Baker (Ed.)
€ 38.99
€ 30.34
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Threat
Paperback. Highlights the plights of the thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israel. Includes contributions from current and former prisoners. Editor(s): Baker, Abeer; Matar, Anat. Num Pages: 282 pages. BIC Classification: JWXR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
Palestinian prisoners charged with security-related offences are immediately taken as a threat to Israel's security. They are seen as potential, if not actual, suicide bombers. This stereotype ignores the political nature of the Palestinian prisoners' actions and their desire for liberty.
By highlighting the various images of Palestinian prisoners in the Israel-Palestine conflict, Abeer Baker and Anat Matar chart their changing fortunes. Essays written by prisoners, ex-prisoners, Human rights defenders, lawyers and academic researchers analyse the political nature of imprisonment and Israeli attitudes towards Palestinian prisoners. These contributions deal with the prisoners' status within Palestinian society, ... Read more
Palestinian prisoners charged with security-related offences are immediately taken as a threat to Israel's security. They are seen as potential, if not actual, suicide bombers. This stereotype ignores the political nature of the Palestinian prisoners' actions and their desire for liberty.
By highlighting the various images of Palestinian prisoners in the Israel-Palestine conflict, Abeer Baker and Anat Matar chart their changing fortunes. Essays written by prisoners, ex-prisoners, Human rights defenders, lawyers and academic researchers analyse the political nature of imprisonment and Israeli attitudes towards Palestinian prisoners. These contributions deal with the prisoners' status within Palestinian society, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
Number of Pages
282
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745330204
SKU
V9780745330204
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Abeer Baker (Ed.)
Abeer Baker is a senior lawyer with Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel (NGO) and heads the Legal Clinic for Prisoners' Rights, in the Law Faculty of Haifa University. She is the co-author of Threat: Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israel (Pluto, 2011). Anat Matar is a senior lecturer of philosophy at Tel ... Read more
Reviews for Threat
'A timely and urgent volume that brings to the fore the systematic injustices endemic to the Israeli imprisonment of Palestinians'
Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor, Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley 'Offers not only nuanced information and unconventional insights, but also the feasibility of an anti-occupation, anti-colonial life of action, developed together by Palestinians and ... Read more
Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor, Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley 'Offers not only nuanced information and unconventional insights, but also the feasibility of an anti-occupation, anti-colonial life of action, developed together by Palestinians and ... Read more