STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
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A cogent alternative to Israel's apartheid system
SUE TURNER recommends a book promoting a powerful political programme for a unified democracy in the country, along with a strategy to achieve such change
BARRIER TO PEACE: The apartheid wall
MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
The bard invites readers to a gig, raps for Clacton, and lays out the Burnham-Hurzeler conundrum
RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
JAN WOOLF relishes an extensive history of our long relationship to trees in Britain that underlines the current emergency
DIANE WATT argues that while evidence of sex is not there, a 16th‑century lesbian poet could be Scotland’s answer to Gentleman Jack
Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism and the Case for One Democratic State
by Jeff Halper
(Pluto Press, £14.99)
THE IDEA of a single democratic state as a political solution for Palestine is nothing new. It was the policy of the Palestinian liberation movement, enshrined in the PLO Charter and only abandoned by the PLO in 1988 in favour of the two-state solution.
In this book Jeff Halper, a founder member of the recently established One Democratic State campaign, argues that Israel never intended the two-state solution to be a solution at all — instead, it was employed as a useful tool for managing the situation rather than solving it.
Meanwhile Israel has consolidated its repressive regime by splintering Palestinian lands with Israeli settlements linked by exclusive superhighways, policed by countless checkpoints and barriers including the apartheid wall.
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