Panel 2 : Palestinians under mandate
Moderated by Jihane Sfeir, Université libre de Bruxelles
Although England's desire to occupy Palestine goes back a long way, it was not until the First World War that it became directly involved. This panel looks back at the time when the British were " aux affaires " in Palestine, and examines the convergence of interests between British imperialism and the Zionist movement. Using several points of inquiry - land, resources, populations, coercion - it highlights the concrete role of the British in the progressive dispossession of the Palestinians.
Michael R. Fischbach
Michael R. Fischbach is Professor of History at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia. Among his many publications, he is the author of : State, Society, and Land in Jordan ; Records of Dispossession: Palestinian Refugee Property and the Arab-Israeli Conflict ; The Peace Process and Palestinian Refugee Claims: Addressing Claims for Property Compensation and Restitution ; Jewish Property Claims Against Arab Countries ; Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color ; and The Movement and the Middle East: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Divided the American Left. His next book, Sirhan Sirhan and the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: Depoliticizing Middle Eastern Violence in America, will be published in 2026.
