Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine

by Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox, Rafeef Ziadah

Overview

A materialist analysis of the links between global capitalism, energy politics, and racial oppression in Palestine

Why has Palestine become a defining fault line of contemporary politics?

Challenging mainstream narratives that reduce Palestine to ancient hatreds, humanitarian tragedy, or legal abstractions, Resisting Erasure places Israeli settler-colonialism within the broader historical arc of imperialism, race, and fossil capitalism in the Middle East.

Resisting Erasure is a succinct and far-reaching critique of the socio-economic and political forces that sustain the Israeli settler-colonial project. An essential introduction for anyone looking to understand what Palestine reveals about the world – and what it demands of us today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781836740773
Publisher:	Verso Books
Publication date:	08/26/2025
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	335 KB

About the Author

Adam Hanieh is Professor of Political Economy and Global Development at the University of Exeter. He specialises in capitalism and imperialism in the Middle East and is the author of Crude Capitalism.

Robert Knox is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Liverpool. He focuses on the relationship between capitalism, imperialism, and international law, offer­ing a critical perspective on how these forces interact and influence global and regional conflicts.

Rafeef Ziadah is a Palestinian organiser and Senior Lecturer in Politics at King’s College London. Ziadah is deeply involved in Palestinian advocacy, bringing a grass­roots perspective to her academic work on imperialism, development, and polit­ical movements in the Middle East. She is the co-editor, with Brenna Bhandar, of Revolutionary Feminisms.