Joost R. Hiltermann

Before the intifada began, Joost Hiltermann had already looked at local organizations in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip and seen there the main elements that would eventually be used to mobilize the Palestinian masses. In the first comprehensive study of these organizations, Hiltermann shows how local organizers provided basic services unavailable under military rule, while recruiting for the cause of Palestinian nationalism.

Labor and Women's Movements in the Occupied Territories

Behind the Intifada

Human Rights Watch (Organization)

Middle East Watch (Organization)

Human Rights Watch/Middle East

The Iraqi Government in Its Own Words

Bureaucracy of Repression

The Organization and Mobilization of Palestinian Workers and Women in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip

Before the Uprising

In March 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war, thousands were killed in a chemical attack on a town in Iraqi Kurdistan. Both sides accused the other. Gradually it emerged that Saddam Hussein, with the tacit support of his western allies, was responsible. This book tells the story of the gassing of Halabja, and how Iraq amassed chemical weapons to target Iranian soldiers and Kurdish villagers as America looked the other way. Today, as the Middle East sinks further into turmoil, these policies are coming back to haunt the West.

America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja

A Poisonous Affair

Joost R. Hiltermann

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