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This book brings together Critical Black Studies and Palestine Studies, offering a powerful and timely intervention into this present moment of genocide and rising fascism. It focuses on how Black and Palestinian people have been constructed as problems to be dealt with, managed, and even eliminated—not only, or even predominantly, as a far right endeavour but significantly also a liberal one. The political stakes, Zahi Zalloua shows, could not be higher, requiring resistance that refuses liberal politics in favour of solidarities based on anti-colonial, anti-imperial, anti-capitalist, and antiracist sensibilities. * Dr Lana Tatour, UNSW Sydney, Australia *

This book brings together Critical Black Studies and Palestine Studies, offering a powerful and timely intervention into this present moment of genocide and rising fascism. It focuses on how Black and Palestinian people have been constructed as problems to be dealt with, managed, and even eliminated—not only, or even predominantly, as a far right endeavour but significantly also a liberal one. The political stakes, Zahi Zalloua shows, could not be higher, requiring resistance that refuses liberal politics in favour of solidarities based on anti-colonial, anti-imperial, anti-capitalist, and antiracist sensibilities. * Dr Lana Tatour, UNSW Sydney, Australia * To be born to perish, yet to challenge a fate. To live in eternal insecurity, to have the courage to live with the anxiety of the menacing Other... that's what the signifiers of Palestinian and blackness, and those who don't exist stand for. To not be, and not be, that's where the impossible happens, precisely where ontology breaks down ,and thinking and doing become one. It is from this crack that political subjectivity emerges, and it is precisely where a politics of emancipation becomes actual. This book is faithful to the acutest political insight of psychoanalysis: don't ever enjoy not being a problem. * Nadia Bou Ali, Associate Professor and Director of Critical Humanities for the Liberal Arts, American University of Beirut, Lebanon *

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Zahi Zalloua is the Cushing Eells Professor of Philosophy and Literature at Whitman College, USA and Editor of The Comparatist. He is the co-author, with Ilan Kapoor, of Universal Politics (2021), and the author of Fanon, Žižek and the Violence of Resistance (Bloomsbury 2025), The Politics of the Wretched: Race, Reason, and Ressentiment (Bloomsbury, 2024); Solidarity and the Palestinian Cause: Indigeneity, Blackness, and the Promise of Universality, Being Posthuman: Ontologies of the Future (Bloomsbury, 2021), Žižek on Race: Toward an Anti-Racist Future ( Bloomsbury, 2020), Theory’s Autoimmunity: Skepticism, Literature, and Philosophy (2018), Continental Philosophy and the Palestinian Question: Beyond the Jew and the Greek (2017), Reading Unruly: Interpretation and Its Ethical Demands (2014), and Montaigne and the Ethics of Skepticism (2005).

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