On 29 March 2016 the New York based online journal, Realty Today
reported 'Israel is facing a housing crisis with ...[the] home
inventory lacking 100,000 apartments... House prices, which have
more than doubled in less than a decade, resulted in a mass protest
back in 2011'. As Yael Allweil reveals in her fascinating book,
housing has played a pivotal role in the history of nationalism and
nation building in Israel-Palestine. She adopts the concept of
'homeland' to highlight how land and housing are central to both
Zionism and Palestinian nationalism, and how the history of Zionist
and Palestinian national housing have been inseparably intertwined
from the introduction of the Ottoman Land Code in 1858 to the
present day. Following the Introduction, Part I, 'Historiographies
of Land Reform and Nationalism', discusses the formation of
nationalism as the direct result of the Ottoman land code of 1858.
Part II, 'Housing as Proto-Nationalism' focuses on housing as the
means to claim rights over the homeland. Part III, 'Housing and
Nation-Building in the Age of State Sovereignty', explores the
effects of statehood on national housing across several strata of
Israeli society. The Afterword discusses housing as the
quintessential object of agonistic conflict in Israel-Palestine,
around which the Israeli polity is formed and reformed.
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