This chapter explores the early Palestinian opposition to Zionism and how it challenged the notions of modernity and religious belonging in the late Ottoman empire. It discusses the Arab consensus that favored a state inclusive of all peoples, regardless of religious background, and how colonial Zionism disrupted this idea.
Featuring Ussama Makdisi on how Western colonialism and Zionism exploited, exacerbated, and imposed sectarianism across the Arab Middle East. This is the SECOND of a two-part interview.
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