Andrew Ross is professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University and the author of Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel.
As bombs continued to fall on Gaza last week, Palestinians joined together for a historic general strike, disrupting business as usual in Israel. But even more worker organization will be needed to end Israeli occupation.
Palestinians were not simply displaced and occupied by Israel — Palestinian workers’ superior skills and cheap labor has always been central to the building the physical environment of Israel.
A visit to the West Bank reveals the everyday brutality of the Israeli occupation.