Decolonizing Palestine

Raheb takes issue with the way biblical passages are invoked to lend religious backing to the current settler-colonial state of Israel. He argues that several central theological ideas, including Israel as a concept, the land, election, and the chosen people, need to be decolonized. In his view, this would bring about a fundamental change in how Christian theology thinks about Palestine.

The book draws on recent research into settler colonialism and human rights. It places long-standing theological themes within the wider political reality of settler colonialism as the modern nation-state of Israel practices it, linking doctrine to present-day socio-political conditions.

The author is a native Palestinian Christian theologian who still lives in the region. Writing from that position, he offers a perspective from within, one that challenges hegemonic and imperialist narratives about the area.