Baruch Kimmerling, George S. Wise Professor of Sociology at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the author of two recently published
books, Politicide: Ariel Sharon’s War Against the Palestinians
(Verso) and (with Joel S. Migdal) The Palestinian People: A
History (Harvard).
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