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Sep 24, 2024 | ISBN 9781804295151

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Praise

“The dark sides of the War of Independence are illuminated in a book on the massive Jewish looting of Arab property then, showing the link between the plunder and Ben-Gurion’s policy to rid the country of its Arab residents.”
—Benny Morris, Haaretz

“Historian Adam Raz has produced groundbreaking research.”
—Daniel Blatman, Haaretz

“Raz’s book meticulously describes the history of the looting of Palestine. It was especially difficult for me to read about the destruction and looting of my hometown, Haifa. Raz shows the central political role that looting played in the creation of the phenomenon of Palestinian refugees, as well as how Prime Minister David Ben Gurion used looting for his own political needs. This is a fascinating book for anyone who wants to understand not only history, but also today’s reality.”
—Ayman Odeh, member of Knesset and leader of the Hadash party

“Denialism still runs deep in Israeli society around the dark events of 1948. Adam Raz is unafraid to bravely investigate the real situation of Israel’s birth, and it was ugly. This unrelenting and essential text should forever shape how the world views the birth of the Jewish state as violent and exploitative. Only through compensation, acknowledgement and truth-telling can Israelis ever hope to reconcile with their Palestinian neighbours.”
—Antony Loewenstein, author of The Palestine Laboratory

“A true archive mouse and gifted writer, Adam Raz is the foremost of a new generation of Israel’s “new historians”. While the story of the theft of Palestinian land and property has been told, Loot tells the story of how Israeli settlers stole the ordinary things – books, ploughs, pots – of their former Palestinian neighbours.”
—Eyal Weizman, co-author of Investigative Aesthetics

“This book is a powerful and disturbing document. We in Israel know so little about the Nakba because we are told little. Adam Raz exposes us to another dark side of the 1948 war: the looting. The private form, committed by many individuals, which was almost considered legitimate. This looting was another face of the de-humanization of the Palestinians, which is now, 76 years later, at its peak.”
—Gideon Levy, author of The Killing of Gaza

“An important addition … Raz has written a book that successfully provides the evidence to break through the ‘conspiracy of silence’ about the origins of the Israeli state.”
—John Westmoreland, Counterfire

Table Of Contents

Archival Collections and Abbreviations
Introduction

Part I: THE PLUNDER OF PALESTINIAN PROPERTY – CHRONICLE OF A DISAPPEARANCE
Tiberias
Haifa
Jerusalem
Jaffa
Acre
Safed
Beisan (Beit She’an)
Ramle and Lydda
Beersheba
Mosques and Churches
The Palestinian Villages
Collective Looting

Part II: THE PLUNDER OF PALESTINIAN PROPERTY – POLITICS AND SOCIETY
A Poison Spreading Through the Arteries of Society
Personal Plunder and Collective Pillaging
Opposing the Plunder
Sheetrit, ‘Professional Mourner’
Ben-Gurion Ignores Minister Sheetrit and
the Ministry of Minorities
The Existence of a Policy for Expelling and Robbing the Arabs
‘Ben-Gurion, This Is Your Fault!’
The Nazareth Affair: Ben-Gurion Had
‘The Strongest Historical Instincts’
Ben-Gurion and the Plunder of Property
Complicity in a Crime

A Brief Conclusion

Index

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