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About the book
Banging on the Walls of the Tank is a collection of reflections and analysis written over eighteen years in Gaza by Palestinian academic and activist, Haidar Eid. Providing an insider’s perspective on the blockade of Gaza since 2007, the Israeli attacks in 2009, 2012, 2014, and 2021, the Great March of Return, and the ongoing genocide committed by the apartheid Israeli state, Eid’s essays examine political alternatives, opportunities for resistance, and prospects for a just peace after more than a century of dispossession. This edition features a foreword by Richard Falk.
Praise for book
‘Urgent, poignant, and erudite. Haidar Eid provides a much-needed analysis on how the genocide in Gaza did not start in 2023 and why Palestinians continue to bang on the walls of their imprisonment to affirm their humanity and their inalienable rights to freedom, equality, and return. Drawing on the example of South Africa, among others, Eid’s collection of essays make the strongest case for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign, international solidarity, and why the only way forward is a single democratic secular state between the river and the sea.’
– Leila Farsakh, professor, University of Massachusetts Boston; editor of Rethinking Statehood in Palestine
‘This book offers an authentic and powerful Palestinian perspective on the killing fields of Gaza through an impressive fusion of historical analysis intertwined with moving personal anecdotes. In Banging on the Walls of the Tank, the people of Gaza appear as they really are: resilient and incredibly courageous in the face of a genocidal campaign against them. It is clear from this moving collection that one cannot wipe out Gaza as one would not be able to expunge Palestine as a whole as an idea, a nation, and a country. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to comprehend fully what it means to live in the biggest prison on earth, constantly in danger of annihilation.’
– Ilan Pappe, author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
About the author
Haidar Eid is a South-African-Palestinian author. He is an associate professor of Postcolonial and Postmodern Literature at Gaza’s al-Aqsa University and an honorary research associate of the Centre for Asian Studies in Africa at the University of Pretoria. His other books are ‘Worlding’ Postmodernism: Interpretive Possibilities of Critical Theory, Countering the Palestinian Nakba: One State for All and the best-selling Decolonising the Palestinian Mind.
