The One State Condition: A Book Review

Eli Ungar-Sargon reviews the new book by Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir, The One State Condition, for Muftah.

by Eli Ungar-Sargon

For serious students of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the contested nature of everything about the conflict, including its very language, can often feel like searching for a signal in a sea of white noise. Words like “colonialism,” “occupation,” “apartheid,” and “ethnocracy” have become so rhetorically charged they seem to have lost their descriptive power.

In their ambitious new book, The One State Condition, Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir attempt to cut through the noise by describing the contours of the Israeli regime and articulating a phenomenology of its power.