This book provides a comparative historical study of the rise and evolution of anti-colonial movements in South Africa and Israel/Palestine. It focuses on the ways in which political movements and activists conceptualized their positions vis-a-vis historical processes of colonial settlement and indigenous resistance over the last century.

Ran Greenstein is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Communist Party of South Africa Chapter 3: The Rise of African Nationalism Chapter 4: The Palestinian Communist Party, 1919-1948 Chapter 5: Palestinian-Arab Nationalism Chapter 6: South Africa: the Apartheid Era Chapter 7: Israel/Palestine Post-1948: Dispersal and New Beginnings Chapter 8: Post-1967: Resistance, Occupation and Civic Struggle Chapter 9: Comparisons and Conclusions