The Foundations of Zionism

A witness to the 1948 Nakba in the village of Fassouta in the Galilee at the age of 10, and one of 160,000 Palestinians who remained, Palestinian author and researcher Sabri Jiryis later became involved al-Ard which sought the return of Palestinians and their land.

Expelled to Safad after attempting to run for the 1965 Knesset elections, Jiryis started reading about the Zionist movement.

It was while working in Lebanon at the Palestinian Research Centre that Jiryis turned his attention to researching the Zionist movement; this time with the realisation that Palestinians with no knowledge of Hebrew had no way of learning about the colonial ideology that dispossessed them.

The Foundations of Zionism (Ebb Books, 2025), translated to English by […]