Event Announcement: Palestine for Hawai‘i - Teach-In and Fundraiser to Support Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) Communities Rebuild (9 September 2023)

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Event Announcement: Palestine for Hawai‘i - Teach-In and Fundraiser to Support Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) Communities Rebuild (9 September 2023)

Event Announcement: Palestine for Hawai‘i - Teach-In and Fundraiser to Support Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) Communities Rebuild (9 September 2023)

By : Jadaliyya Reports

Palestine for Hawai‘i - Teach-In and Fundraiser to Support Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) Communities Rebuild 


Saturday September 9th, 2023

10-11 AM Hawaii / 1-2 PM PST/ 4-5 PM EST

Online, hosted by Jadaliyya (live-streamed and recorded)


Zoom Link: 

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89743029276
Meeting ID: 897 4302 9276 

Watch the livestream on YouTube here.

Join Palestinian, Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian), and allied scholars and movement workers for a teach-in and fundraiser to support Indigenous rebuilding efforts in Maui. 

The recent wildfires in Maui have left historic Hawaiian communities devastated, with 99 confirmed dead, one thousand missing people and thousands more displaced from their homes and lands. As Kanaka Maoli have taught us, these wildfires are not “natural,” but are settler colonial disasters with roots in the expropriation of Native lands, waters, and other natural resources – in the service of the tourist industry and backed by the U.S. military-industrial complex.

This teach-in centers the histories and experiences of Kanaka Maoli communities with U.S. settler colonialism in Hawai’i, continued organizing for Hawaiian sovereignty, and practices of solidarity between Hawai’i and Palestine. It is grounded in the recognition as Palestinians that Native Hawaiian’s ongoing struggles for freedom from U.S. military occupation and settler colonialism are interconnected with our own continued struggle for liberation from Israeli colonial violence.

In the immediate wake of city, county and state government abandonment, and with private realtors now preying on those who have lost their homes, we call on Palestinians across the diaspora (and our allies) to support Native Hawaiians’ local efforts to rebuild their communities and livelihoods as an act of radical love and reciprocal solidarity. 

We encourage community donations directly to Mauna Medic Healers Hui and Pacific Birth Collective. 

Speakers


Cynthia Franklin is Professor of English at the University of Hawai‘i. She coedits the journal Biography. She is the author of Narrating Humanity: Life Writing and Movement Politics from Palestine to Mauna Kea (2023), Academic Lives: Memoir, Cultural Theory, and the University Today (2009) and Writing Women’s Communities: The Politics and Poetics of Multi-Genre Anthologies (1994). Coedited special journal issues include, for Biography, “Life in Occupied Palestine” (2014).  She has served for 10 years on the Organizing Collective of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI), and cofounded Students and Faculty for Justice in Palestine at UH (SFJP@UH) and Jewish Voice for Peace-Hawai'i.  

J. Kēhaulani Kauanui is Professor of American Studies and affiliate faculty in Anthropology at Wesleyan University, where she teaches courses related to critical Indigenous studies, critical race studies, settler colonial studies and anarchist studies. She is the author of Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity (Duke University Press 2008); Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism (Duke University Press 2018); and Speaking of Indigenous Politics: Conversations with Activists, Scholars, and Tribal Leaders (University of Minnesota Press 2018). She serves on the advisory board for the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.

Māhealani Ahia (she/her/'o ia) is a Los-Angeles born Kanaka Maoli scholar, activist, songcatcher, and storykeeper with lineal ties to Lāhainā, Maui. Māhea is a PhD candidate in English (Hawaiian Literature) and in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her dissertation entitled, “Shapeshifting Hawaiian Biography: the Life and Afterlives of Kihawahine,” theorizes feminist power and leadership within the moʻo (reptilian water deity) clan connected to Lāhainā. Māhea is an organizer for Students and Faculty for Justice in Palestine at UH and co-organizer of the Mauna Kea Syllabus Project.

Kahala Johnson (he/they/ʻo ia) is an Indigenous politics, futures, and gender and sexuality studies scholar at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Their research focuses on genderqueer and poly decolonial love, and their dissertation, “A Night Slippery with Echoes,” examines decolonized futures of the Hawaiian Kingdom. They are co-founder of the Hale Māhū (LGBTQ space) at Puʻuhuluhulu University at Mauna Kea, where they welcomed Palestinian allies. Born and raised in Nā Wai ʻEhā, Maui, Kahala has been working with family to reoccupy ancestral lands, and has helped build multiple puʻuhonua (refuge) across Maui.

Nour Joudah is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at UCLA and a former President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Geography at UC-Berkeley (2022-23). Dr. Joudah completed her PhD in Geography at UCLA (2022), and wrote her dissertation Mapping Decolonized Futures: Indigenous Visions for Hawaii and Palestine on the efforts by Palestinian and native Hawaiian communities to imagine and work toward liberated futures while centering indigenous duration as a non-linear temporality. Her work examines mapping practices and indigenous survival and futures in settler states, highlighting how indigenous countermapping is a both cartographic and decolonial praxis. She also has an MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University, and wrote her MA thesis on the role and perception of exile politics within the Palestinian liberation struggle, in particular among politically active Palestinian youth living in the United States and occupied Palestine.

Rana Barakat is Asociate Professor of history and Director of the Museum at Birzeit University in Palestine. Her research interests include the history and historiography of colonialism, nationalism, and cultures of resistance. She has published in several venues including the Journal of Palestine Studies, Jerusalem Quarterly, Settler Colonial Studies, and Native American and Indigenous Studies. She has a book forthcoming with UNC Press titled Lifta and Resisting the Museumification of Palestine: Indigenous History of the Nakba, which advances an Indigenous understanding of time, space, and memory in Palestine by focusing on the details of the people and place of Lifta village over time. And her second book is in progress, The Buraq Revolt: Constructing a History of Resistance in Palestine, argues that this 1929 revolt was the first sign in the mandate period of sustained mass resistance to the settler-colonial project, including direct and rhetorical actions against both political Zionism and British imperialism, planting seeds of a century of mass political mobilization.  

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Past is Present: Settler Colonialism Matters!

On 5-6 March 2011, the Palestine Society at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London will hold its seventh annual conference, "Past is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine." This year`s conference aims to understand Zionism as a settler colonial project which has, for more than a century, subjected Palestine and Palestinians to a structural and violent form of destruction, dispossession, land appropriation and erasure in the pursuit of a new Jewish Israeli society. By organizing this conference, we hope to reclaim and revive the settler colonial paradigm and to outline its potential to inform and guide political strategy and mobilization.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is often described as unique and exceptional with little resemblance to other historical or ongoing colonial conflicts. Yet, for Zionism, like other settler colonial projects such as the British colonization of Ireland or European settlement of North America, South Africa or Australia, the imperative is to control the land and its resources -- and to displace the original inhabitants. Indeed, as conference keynote speaker Patrick Wolfe, one of the foremost scholars on settler colonialism and professor at La Trobe University in Victoria, Australia, argues, "the logic of this project, a sustained institutional tendency to eliminate the Indigenous population, informs a range of historical practices that might otherwise appear distinct--invasion is a structure not an event."[i]

Therefore, the classification of the Zionist movement as a settler colonial project, and the Israeli state as its manifestation, is not merely intended as a statement on the historical origins of Israel, nor as a rhetorical or polemical device. Rather, the aim is to highlight Zionism`s structural continuities and the ideology which informs Israeli policies and practices in Palestine and toward Palestinians everywhere. Thus, the Nakba -- whether viewed as a spontaneous, violent episode in war, or the implementation of a preconceived master plan -- should be understood as both the precondition for the creation of Israel and the logical outcome of Zionist settlement in Palestine.

Moreover, it is this same logic that sustains the continuation of the Nakba today. As remarked by Benny Morris, “had he [David Ben Gurion] carried out full expulsion--rather than partial--he would have stabilised the State of Israel for generations.”[ii] Yet, plagued by an “instability”--defined by the very existence of the Palestinian nation--Israel continues its daily state practices in its quest to fulfill Zionism’s logic to maximize the amount of land under its control with the minimum number of Palestinians on it. These practices take a painful array of manifestations: aerial and maritime bombardment, massacre and invasion, house demolitions, land theft, identity card confiscation, racist laws and loyalty tests, the wall, the siege on Gaza, cultural appropriation, and the dependence on willing (or unwilling) native collaboration and security arrangements, all with the continued support and backing of imperial power. 

Despite these enduring practices however, the settler colonial paradigm has largely fallen into disuse. As a paradigm, it once served as a primary ideological and political framework for all Palestinian political factions and trends, and informed the intellectual work of committed academics and revolutionary scholars, both Palestinians and Jews.

The conference thus asks where and why the settler colonial paradigm was lost, both in scholarship on Palestine and in politics; how do current analyses and theoretical trends that have arisen in its place address present and historical realities? While acknowledging the creativity of these new interpretations, we must nonetheless ask: when exactly did Palestinian natives find themselves in a "post-colonial" condition? When did the ongoing struggle over land become a "post-conflict" situation? When did Israel become a "post-Zionist" society? And when did the fortification of Palestinian ghettos and reservations become "state-building"?

In outlining settler colonialism as a central paradigm from which to understand Palestine, this conference re-invigorates it as a tool by which to analyze the present situation. In doing so, it contests solutions which accommodate Zionism, and more significantly, builds settler colonialism as a political analysis that can embolden and inform a strategy of active, mutual, and principled Palestinian alignment with the Arab struggle for self-determination, and indigenous struggles in the US, Latin America, Oceania, and elsewhere.

Such an alignment would expand the tools available to Palestinians and their solidarity movement, and reconnect the struggle to its own history of anti-colonial internationalism. At its core, this internationalism asserts that the Palestinian struggle against Zionist settler colonialism can only be won when it is embedded within, and empowered by, the broader Arab movement for emancipation and the indigenous, anti-racist and anti-colonial movement--from Arizona to Auckland.

SOAS Palestine Society invites everyone to join us at what promises to be a significant intervention in Palestine activism and scholarship.

For over 30 years, SOAS Palestine Society has heightened awareness and understanding of the Palestinian people, their rights, culture, and struggle for self-determination, amongst students, faculty, staff, and the broader public. SOAS Palestine society aims to continuously push the frontiers of discourse in an effort to make provocative arguments and to stimulate debate and organizing for justice in Palestine through relevant conferences, and events ranging from the intellectual and political impact of Edward Said`s life and work (2004), international law and the Palestine question (2005), the economy of Palestine and its occupation (2006), the one state (2007), 60 Years of Nakba, 60 Years of Resistance (2009), and most recently, the Left in Palestine (2010).

For more information on the SOAS Palestine Society 7th annual conference, Past is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine: www.soaspalsoc.org

SOAS Palestine Society Organizing Collective is a group of committed students that has undertaken to organize annual academic conferences on Palestine since 2003.

 

[i] Patrick Wolfe, Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology: The Politics and Poetics of an Ethnographic Event, Cassell, London, p. 163

[ii] Interview with Benny Morris, Survival of the Fittest, Haaretz, 9. January 2004, http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/art.php?aid=5412