Annemarie Jacir’s ‘Palestine 36’ gets a lot right in telling the story of the 1936 Palestinian revolution against the British. But a better accounting of the class dynamics in the uprising could have helped explain why it was crushed.

Thirty years after the Oslo Accords were designed to institute Palestinian defeat, resistance continues, and so does the cycle of loss.

Louis Allday’s introduction to the newly reissued biography of Ghassan Kanafani outlines the choice Kanafani made between being an organic participant in the resistance and his life as a writer. Kanafani chose, and in doing so, chose his fate.