The Crime of Nationalism: Britain, Palestine, and Nation-Building on the Fringe of EmpireThe Palestinian national movement gestated in the early decades of the twentieth century, but it was born in the Great Revolt of 1936–39, a period of sustained Arab protest against British policy in the Palestine mandate. In The Crime of Nationalism, Matthew Kraig Kelly makes the unique case that the key to understanding the Great Revolt lies in what he calls the crimino-national domain—the overlap between the criminological and the nationalist dimensions of British imperial discourse, and the primary terrain upon which the war of 1936–39 was fought. Kelly's analysis amounts to a new history of one of the major anticolonial insurgencies of the interwar period and a critical moment in the lead-up to Israel's founding. The Crime of Nationalism offers crucial lessons for the scholarly understanding of nationalism and insurgency more broadly. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Criminalization | 35 |
The Abortion | 141 |
The End of the Revolt 1939 | 155 |
Conclusion | 177 |
Notes | 187 |
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AHC’s Amin al-Husayni April April–October 1936 Arab Higher Committee Arab leaders Arab leadership Arab Palestinian Arab political Arab population Arab Rebellion Arab Revolt assassination attacks August bandits bishop British and Zionist British forces British officials British policy British repression British violence causal chief secretary claim Colonial Office colonial secretary commander crime criminal crimino-national declared Fawzi al-Qawuqji February gangs government’s Gurion Haganah havlagah high commissioner Ibid insurgents Jaffa Jenin Jerusalem Jewish Agency Jews July June Kabha Kayyali killed law and order letter London MacDonald mandate mandatory martial law MECA military mufti murder Nablus nationalist Notes November October Ormsby-Gore Palestine and Transjordan Palestine Post Palestinian Arabs partition Peel Commission Peirse Porath rebel courts regarding Rendel Riots to Rebellion September 1936 Shertok soldiers strike terrorism terrorists tion Transjordan Tulkarm village searches Wauchope Wauchope’s Weizmann wrote Zionist Zuʿaytir ʿAbd al-Hadi ʿAbd al-Rahim al-Hajj