Joseph Massad

Joseph Massad is associate professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University
Joseph Massad is associate professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University
Views Friday, November 30, 2012 Bitter Irony: UN Vote to Recognize Palestine Legitimizes a Racist Status Quo On 29 November 1947, the UN general assembly voted to partition Palestine between native Palestinians and overwhelmingly European Jewish colonists. The partition plan granted the colonists (one-third of the population) 57% of the land, and granted the native inhabitants (two-thirds of the population) 43%. On 30 November, the colonists embarked on the military conquest of Palestine, expelling hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. They declared their state on 14 May 1948. Read more |