My name is David Naguib Pellow and I am a proud member of Academics for Justice in Palestine. I’m not an expert on Palestine-Israel. I am an environmental justice scholar, so I will use this opportunity to offer an environmental justice framing of this struggle.
David N. Pellow
David N. Pellow is the Dehlsen Chair and Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Director of the Global Environmental Justice Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His teaching, research, and activism focus on environmental justice in the U.S. and globally. His books include: What is Critical Environmental Justice? and Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago. His work has been reviewed, referenced, or quoted in the L.A. Times, the New York Times, NPR, the Chicago Tribune, the Denver Post, and Mother Jones. He has served on the Boards of Directors of Greenpeace USA and International Rivers.