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Occupation from Within is a work of political analysis and personal reflection on the dialectic between decades of deepening Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, its associated practices of systematic discrimination and dispossession, and the deterioration of Israel's internal governance system toward an anti-democratic, racist, fascist, and ultimately genocidal end.
In the somewhat exotic Jewish home in Iowa where I grew up, it was axiomatic that there was an intimate link between Judaism and universal human rights. Like nearly all Eastern European Jewish families in America, my parents and grandparents were Roosevelt Democrats, to the point of fanaticism.
A Tel Aviv–based human rights lawyer forcefully argues that Israeli treatment of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories is equivalent to apartheid. Sfard, who represents Palestinian victims of civil rights violations, makes his literary debut with an unsparing indictment of Israeli racism, oppression, and injustice.
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