Scholars of South Asia in Solidarity with Palestine

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Scholars of South Asia in Solidarity with Palestine

By : Jadaliyya Reports

We, the undersigned scholars working on South Asia, grieve the loss of Palestinian and Israeli lives. We come together to condemn the ongoing genocide in Palestine unequivocally. As we write this, Palestinian people are being killed in the thousands, and many more are being dispossessed by an ethnonationalist Zionist regime. We are outraged by how Western governments are providing material and monetary support to this war, while Western media provides moral legitimacy to the dehumanization and decimation of Palestinians.

As scholars of South Asia, we are strongly obliged to note the longstanding affinities between Zionism, Hindutva, and US empire that are further heightened through military interdependence. This relationship impacts ongoing Indian settler colonial violence in Kashmir as well as the widespread rise of authoritarianism across South Asia. 

We stand in solidarity with our fellow educators in occupied Palestine who have renewed their call for international academic institutions to stand with Palestinian people. We also reaffirm our commitment to academic freedom at a time when students, staff, and faculty at institutions across the world are being fired, doxxed, and harassed for their speech. To fail to do so would be an abdication of scholarly and ethical responsibility. We insist on the recognition of the dignity and value of Palestinian lives and the right of all oppressed peoples to demand liberation and self-determination.

*Those who have signed below have done so in their individual capacity. Signatures are listed alphabetically by first name.

A. Mangai - Theatre, Gender, Translation studies Scholar, .

Aarti Sethi - Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley.

Aashique Ahmed Iqbal - Assistant Professor, .

Abhisek Roy Barman - PhD student, .

Adhip Amin - PhD Student in History, Princeton University.

Aditi Rao - PhD Student, Princeton University.

Aditi Saraf - Faculty, .

Adrija Dey - Senior research fellow, University of Westminster.

Adwaita Banerjee - PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania.

Afsar Mohammad - faculty, University of Pennsylvania.

Aidan Seale-Feldman - , .

AInoon Naher - Professor, Dept of Anthropology, Jahangirnagar University.

Ajantha Subramanian - Professor of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center.

Ajay Rao - , University of Toronto.

Ajay Skaria - Professor, Department of History, University of Minnesota.

Akanksha Mehta - Senior Lecturer/Assoc Professor, Goldsmiths, University of London.

Akhlaque Haque - Professor, .

Akshi Singh - Lecturer in Literature and Global Migrations, University of Glasgow.

Al-An deSouza - Professor, Institute of South Asia Studies, UC Berkeley.

Ali Ahsan - Doctoral Student, University of Georgia.

Ali Anooshahr - , .

Ali Riaz - Distinguished Professor, Illinois State University.

Ali Usman Qasmi - Associate Professor, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS).

Aliya Khalid - Lecturer in Comparative and International Education, University of Oxford.

Alka Patel - Professor, UC-Irvine.

Amal Hamid - PhD Student, .

Amali Wedagedara - , .

Amana Raquib - Assistant professor, IBA Karachi.

Ameen Sidhick - PhD scholar, University of Pennsylvania.

Amen Jaffer - , LUMS.

Amit Baishya - Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma.

Amit S. Rai - Reader, Queen Mary, University of London.

Amit Upadhyay - Assistant Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences.

Ammara Maqsood - Associate Professor in Social Anthropology, .

Amna Ashraf - , .

Amrita Kurian - Postdoctoral Fellow, .

Amrita Shodhan - Sr Teaching Fellow, .

Anand V. Taneja - Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University.

Anandhi S - Professor, Independent researcher.

Anandi Ramamurthy - Professor, Sheffield Hallam University.

Ananya Dasgupta - Associate Professor of History, Case Western Reserve University.

Ananya Kushwaha - , .

Ananya Roy - , .

Angana Chatterji - , UC Berkeley.

Ania Loomba - Catherine Bryson Professor of English, University of Pennsylania.

Anindita Adhikari - Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Michigan.

Anindita Chatterjee - , .

Anirban Baishya - , .

Aniruddha Dutta - Associate Professor, University of Iowa.

Anish Vanaik - , Purdue University.

Anisha Ahuja - , Claremont Graduate University.

Anita Cherian - Academic, Ambedkar University Delhi.

Anjali Arondekar - Professor, Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Anna Bigelow - Associate Professor, Religious Studies, Stanford University.

Anneeth Kaur Hundle - Associate Professor of Anthropology and Presidential Chair of Social Sciences to Advance Sikh Studies, University of California, Irvine.

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi - , Barnard College.

Anum Dada - , .

Anuradha Needham - Donald R. Longman Professor of English and Cinema Studies, Emerita, Oberlin College.

Anurag Advani - PhD Candidate, South and SE Asian Studies, UC Berkeley.

Anusha Iyer - , .

Anushka Chaudhuri - PhD Student, University of Bristol.

Aparajita De - Associate Professor, UDC.

Aparajita Majumdar - , .

Aparna Sundar - Independent Scholar, .

Apoorva Tripathi - PhD Student, .

Apurva Ashok Prasad - Graduate Fellow, University of Pennsylvania.

Arjun Guneratne - Professor of Anthropology, Macalester College.

Arpeeta Shams Mizan - PhD Candidate and Assistant Professor of Law, University of Bristol Law School; University of Dhaka.

Arsalan Khan - Associate Professor,, Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Arushi Garg - , .

Asha Nadkarni - Associate Professor of English, UMass Amherst.

Ashka Naik - Researcher, University of Massachusetts Boston.

Ashley - Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, Nantes.

Asif Iqbal - , .

Asma Abbas - Professor of Politics and Philosophy, Bard College at Simon's Rock.

Asma Kazmi - Associate Professor, UC Berkeley.

Ateya Khorakiwala - Assistant Professor, Columbia University.

Atreyee Gupta - Assistant Professor, History of Art, UC Berkeley.

Auritro Majumder - , University of Houston.

Avital Datskovsky - , .

Ayesha Sheth - , .

Ayesha Vemuri - PhD candidate, McGill university.

Bala Raghavan - Graduate Student, UCSC.

Barbara Brower - Professor Emerita, Geography Department, Portland State University.

beena sarwar - Journalism professor; Co-ounder Southasia Peace Action Network; Founder Editor Sapan News, Emerson College.

Bhavana Goparaju - , .

Bina D’Costa - Professor, The Australian National University.

Bindu Menon - , .

Bishnupriya Ghosh - Professor, Uc Santa Barbara.

Biswarup Sen - Associate Professor, University of Oregon.

Brahma Prakash - Assistant Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

C. P. Chandrasekhar - , Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Chand - Doctoral Student, WGSS, UMD College Park.

Chandan Reddy - Associate Professor, University of Washington.

Chandra Talpade Mohanty - Distinguished Professor, Syracuse University.

Charlotte Gorant - , .

Chaumtoli Huq - Associate Professor of Law, CUNY Law.

Chris LaMack - , .

Chris Moffat - Senior Lecturer in South Asian History, Queen Mary University of London.

Christian Lee Novetzke - , .

Claire Pamment - , .

Clare Talwalker - Continuing Lecturer (ISSP), UC Berkeley.

Craig Brandist - Professor, University of Sheffield.

Critical Diasporic South Asian Feminisms Collective - , .

Daanish Mustafa - Professor in Critical Geography, King's College, London.

Darshana Mini - , .

Davesh Soneji - , University of Pennsylvania.

David Faust - , .

David Lewis - Professor of Anthropology and Development, London School of Economics & Political Science.

David Ludden - Professor of History, New York University.

Debashree Mukherjee - Associate Professor, Columbia University.

Debjani Bhattacharyya - , University of Zurich.

Deborah Hutton - Professor, The College of New Jersey.

Deepasri Baul - Postdoctoral Fellow, Asian University for Women, Chittagong.

Deepita Chakravarty - , Dr B R Ambedkar University Delhi.

Deepti Misri - Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies, University of Colorado Boulder.

Dhruv Gangadharan - PhD Student, .

Dilip Menon - Professor of History and International Relations, University of Witwatersrand.

Dina M. Siddiqi - , .

Dipti Khera - Associate Professor, New York University.

Diya Bose - Assistant Professor, .

Dolly Daftary - , .

Dolly Kikon - Associate Professor, University of Melbourne.

Dolores Chew - Faculty, Marianopolis College.

Dr Hossain Al Mamun - Professor and Head of the Department of English, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh.

Dr. Farhana Sultana - Professor of Geography & the Environment, Syracuse University.

Dr. Md Abu Naser - Chair, Department of Communications, California State University, Bakersfield.

Dr. Nausheen Wasi - Assistant Professor, University of Karachi.

Drishadwati Bargi - Graduate Student, University of Minnesota.

Elisabeth Armstrong - Professor of the Study of Women & Gender, South Asia Studies, Smith College.

Elliot Montpellier - , Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

Elora Halim Chowdhury - Professor, UMass Boston.

Elora Shehabuddin - Professor, UC Berkeley.

Eric Beverley - Associate Professor of History, SUNY Stony Brook.

Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway - Professor of Anthropology, .

Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan - Assistant Professor, NYU.

Falak - PhD student, University of Iowa.

Falu Bakrania - Professor, San Francisco State University.

Fareen Parvez - , .

Farida Khan - Professor of Economics, .

Farina Mir - Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Michigan.

Farzana Bindu - , .

Fatima Hafsa - , .

Fatima Tufail - Ph.D. Candidate, University of Minnesota.

Feyzi Ismail - Lecturer in Global Policy and Activism, Goldsmiths, University of London.

Firdous Azim - Professor, Brac University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Fizza Joffrey - , .

Fizzah Sajjad - Phd Candidate, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Francis Cody - Associate Professor, University of Toronto.

G.Patel - , University of Virginia.

Garima Jaju - Research Fellow, University of Cambridge.

Gayatri Reddy - , University of Illinois Chicago.

Ghazal Asif - , .

Gitanjali Kaur Singh - Lecturer, California State University, Dominguez Hills.

Gopika Solanki - , Carleton University.

Gyan Prakash - Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Princeton University.

Habib Zafarullah - Adjunct Professor, University of New England (Australia).

Hammad Sarfraz - Lecturer, Institute of Business Administration.

Hana Shams Ahmed - PhD Candidate, York University.

Harshita Yalamarty - Postdoctoral Fellow, Queen's University.

Heba Islam - PhD student, Dept of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University.

Hemangini Gupta - Department of politics and international relations, University of Edinburgh.

Huma Dar - , .

Humayun Kabir - Lecturer, Queens College, CUNY.

I. Visram - Doctoral Researcher, Oxford University.

Ida Roland Birkvad - Fellow, London School of Economics.

Iftikhar Dadi - Professor, CORNELL UNIVERSITY.

Ihsan Ul-Ihthisam - Graduate Student, University of Chicago.

Ilqua Lutfi - PhD student, University of Chicago.

Ilsa - PhD student - History, University of Washington, Seattle.

Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst - Associate Professor, University of Vermont.

Inderpal Grewal - Professor Emeritus, Yale University.

Indrani Chatterjee - , .

Iqra Shagufta Cheema - , .

Isabel Huacuja Alonso - Assistant Professor, Columbia University.

Ishita - Independent Curator, Architectural Historian, Curating for Culture.

Ishita Chatterjee - Associate Professor, .

Ishita Pande - Professor, Queen’s University.

Ishita Tiwary - , .

Itty Abraham - Professor, Arizona State University.

J Daniel Elam - Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong.

J Daniel Luther - , .

J. Barton Scott - Associate Professor of Historical Studies, University of Toronto.

Jacob Rinck - , .

Jane Allred - , .

Jayati Ghosh - Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Jibraan Mansoor - , .

Jigna Desai - Professor, UC -- Santa Barbara.

Joanna Korey - , .

Juvaria Syed - PhD Candidate, .

Kajri Jain - Professor, University of Toronto.

Kalpana Kannabiran - , .

Kalpana Wilson - Lecturer, Birkbeck, University of London.

Kalyani Menon - , .

Kalyani Menon Sen - Independent researcher, .

Kamalini Hegde - , University of Pennsylvania.

Kamna Patel - Associate Professor, University College London, UK.

Kanchana N Ruwanpura - Professor - Development Geography, University of Gothenburg.

Kareem Khubchandani - Associate Professor, Tufts University.

Karishma Desai - Assistant Professor, Rutgers University.

Karuna Dietrich Wielenga - , .

Kaushik Jayaram - Independent researcher, .

Keya Ganguly - Professor, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Khushboo Bhutani - PhD Candidate, .

Kim Fernandes - Doctoral candidate, .

Kimberly Walters - Associate Professor, California State University, Long Beach.

Kiran Asher - Professor and Chair, WGSS, UMass, Amherst.

Koyna Tomar - , .

Kriti Budhiraja - PhD candidate, University of Minnesota Twin Cities.

Kuldeep Singh - , .

Kunal Joshi - PhD Candidate, Johns Hopkins University.

Lalita du Perron - Associate Director, Center for South Asia, Stanford University.

Lalitha Kamath - , Tata Institute of Social Sciences.

Lata Narayanaswamy - Associate Professor, .

Lawrence Liang - Professor, .

Layli Uddin - Lecturer, QMUL.

Liam O’Loughlin - Assistant Professor of English, Capital University.

Lotte Hoek - , University of Edinburgh.

Lucinda Ramberg - Associate Professor, Anthropology and FGSS, Cornell University.

M. V. Ramana - Professor, University of British Columbia.

Madhavi Kale - Professor, .

Madhusree Mukerjee - writer, .

Madhusudan Rimal - , .

Mahboob Ahmad - , .

Malavika Kasturi - Associate Professor , Department of History, University of Toronto.

Malini Johar Schueller - Professor, University of FLorida.

Malini Ranganathan - Associate Professor, American University.

Mana Kia - Associate Professor, MESAAS, Columbia University.

Manasa Gade - , University of Edinburgh.

Manasvini Rajan - PhD student, English department, UMass Amherst.

Manav Kapur - PhD Candidate, Department of History, .

Manishita Dass - , .

Manu Goswami - , New York University.

Maria Haqqani - , .

Maria Rashid - Fellow, LSE Gender Studies, London School of Economics.

Mariam Durrani - , American University, School of International Service.

Marios Falaris - Doctoral candidate, Johns Hopkins University.

Maya Best - , University of Pittsburgh.

Mayanthi Fernando - Associate Professor of Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz.

Md Mizanur Rahman - , .

Md. Habibullah - Associate Professor in English, Presidency University.

Md. Mahmudul Hasan - Professor, International Islamic University Malaysia.

Meena Khandelwal - Associate Professor of Anthropology and GWSS, University of Iowa.

Meghana Rao - Academic/ Teacher, .

Meher Ali - PhD student, Princeton University.

Mihika Chatterjee - Lecturer in International Development, .

Mirza Taslima Sultana - Fulbright Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley.

Mohammad M. Salehin - Associate Professor, Centre for Peace Studies (CPS), UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

Mohammad Tanzimuddin Khan - Professor, Department International Relations, University of Dhaka.

Mohd Javed Ahmed - Researcher, .

Monika Bhagat-Kennedy - Assistant Professor of English, University of Mississippi.

Monika Mehta - Associate Professor, Binghamton University.

Moosa Khan - , .

Morgan Richardson Dietz - Assistant Teaching Professor, Northern Arizona University.

Moriah McKenna - , .

Mubbashir Rizvi - , American University.

Mukulika Banerjee - Dr., London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mythri Jegathesan - Associate Professor, Santa Clara University.

N. R. Menon - , .

Nadine Shaanta Murshid - , University at Buffalo.

Nafisa Tanjeem - Associate Professor, Worcester State University.

Nagesh Rao - Lecturer, Colgate University.

Nainika Dinesh - , University of Pennsylvania.

Naisargi N. Dave - , University of Toronto.

Nalini Iyer - , .

Nandini Dey - , University of Michigan.

Nandini Nayak - , .

Naomi Hossain - Professor of Development Studies, SOAS University of London.

Nasia Anam - Assistant Professor of English, University of Nevada, Reno.

Nasrin Khandoker - , University College Cork.

Naveeda Khan - Associate Professor and Chair, Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University.

Navine Murshid - Associate Professor of Political Science, Colgate University.

Navtej Purewal - Professor, SOAS University of London.

Nayanika Mathur - Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies, University of Oxford.

Nazia Amin - , .

Nazifa Ahmed - Dr., .

Neel Ahuja - , University of Maryland, College Park.

Neepa Majumdar - , University of Pittsburgh.

Neilesh Bose - Associate Professor/Canada Research Chair, University of Victoria.

Nicole-Ann Lobo - PhD Student, Dept. of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University.

Nida Kirmani - Associate Professor, LUMS.

Nida Rehman - , .

Nidhi Mahajan - Assistant Professor, University of California -Santa Cruz.

Niharika Pandit - , Queen Mary, University of London.

Nikita Sud - Professor, University of Oxford.

Nildeep Paul - , Concordia University.

Nilita Vachani - Adjunct Professor, New York University.

Nimanthi Rajasingham - Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies, Colgate University.

Nishant Upadhyay - Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado Boulder.

Nivedita Menon - Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University Delhi.

Nivi Manchanda - Reader, Queen Mary university of London.

noopur raval - Assistant Professor, UCLA.

Nudrat Kamal - PhD Student, Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania.

Nusrat S Chowdhury - Associate Professor, Amherst College.

Pallavi Rastogi - , .

Paola Bacchetta - Professor, University of California.

Papori Bora - Assistant Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Parama Roy - Professor Emerita of English, UC Davis.

Parboti Roy - , .

Parnisha Sarkar - , .

Paroj Banerjee - Lecturer, UCL.

Paul Donnelly - Professor, .

Paula Chakravartty - James Weldon Johnson Associate Professor of Media Studies, NYU.

Paulami Guha Biswas - Research Associate, Max Weber Stiftung, New Delhi.

Pavithra Prasad - Associate Professor, CSU- Northridge.

Pavitra Sundar - Associate Professor of Literature, Hamilton College.

Pervez Hoodbhoy - physics professor, The Black Hole.

Piya Chatterjee - Professor, FGSS, Scripps College.

Pooja Rangan - Associate Professor of English in Film and Media Studies, Amherst College.

Poorvi Bellur - PhD Candidate, .

Poulomi Saha - Associate Professor, UC Berkeley.

Poushali Bhadury - Assistant Professor of English, Middle Tennessee State University.

Pranav Jani - Associate Professor, English, The Ohio State University.

Pranav Menon - Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology.

Pratichi Priyambada - , .

Prea Persaud - , .

Preethi R. - Graduate Student, .

Priya Tiwari - , .

Professor Azfar Hussain - Director of the Graduate Program in Social Innovation, Grand Valley State University, Michigan.

Pujarinee Mitra - , .

Purnima Dhavan - , .

Quratulain Mushtaque - , University of Oxford.

R. Benedito Ferrão - , .

R. Radhakrishnan - , Distinguished Professor of English, UCI.

Radhika Govindarajan - , University of Washington.

Radhika Gupta - , Leiden University.

Rafiq Kathwari - Poet, .

Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan - , .

Rahim Quazi - , .

Rahul Rao - Reader, University of St Andrews.

Rajbir Singh Judge - Assistant Professor, California State University, Long Beach.

Rajorshi Das - , University of Iowa.

Rama Mantena - , University of Illinois Chicago.

Ramsha Siddiqui - Lecturer, .

Rashmi Varma - , University of Warwick.

Ratheesh Radhakrishnan - , .

Ravindran Sriramachandran - Asst. Professor, Ashoka University.

Raza Ahmad - Distinguished Lecturer, CUNY/ Cornell University.

Rehan Jamil - Dr, .

Renu Pariyadath - Associate professor of communication, University of South Carolina Upstate.

Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt - Professor/Dept of English & Critical Ethnic Studies, Linfield University.

Rezwana Karim Snigdha (PhD) - Associate Professor, Jahangirnagar University.

Richa Nagar - , University of Minnesota.

Ridhima - PhD student, University of Toronto.

Rishad Choudhury - , Oberlin College.

Ritika Arora - , .

Ritika Ganguly - Dr., Consultant.

Ritika Kaushik - , .

Ritty Lukose - Associate Professor, New York University.

Robert Rozehnal - Professor, Lehigh University.

Rohina Kabir - Graduate Student, .

Rohini Menon - MA Student, University of Chicago.

Romola Sanyal - Associate Professor, London School of Economics.

Ronak K. Kapadia - , .

Rovel Sequeira - , .

Ruchi Chaturvedi - , .

Rumya Putcha - Associate Professor, .

Rupal Oza - , .

Rushaan Kumar - , .

rushdia mehreen - , .

Rushnae Kabir - Graduate Student, University of Pennsylvania.

S Bodh - Research Scholar, .

S. Charusheela - Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, Bothell.

S. Prashant Kumar - Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago.

S. Shakthi - Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam.

Saadia Toor - , .

Saba Pirzadeh - , Lahore University of Management Sciences.

Sabah Siddiqui - , .

Sadequl islam - Professor of economics, Laurentian University.

Sadia Afrin - Assistant Professor, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University.

Safina Azeem Qureshi - MA Student, .

Sahana Ghosh - , .

Sahithya Venkatesan - Graduate Student, .

Sailaja Krishnamurti - Associate Professor, Gender Studies, Queen’s University.

Salwa Tareen - PhD Candidate, Boston University.

Saman Quraishi - Architectural Archivist & Researcher, .

Sameen Ali - Assistant Professor, University of Birmingham.

Sameer Rashid Bhat - , University of Oxford.

Samhita Sunya - Associate Professor of Cinema, University of Virginia.

Samia Khatun - Senior Lecturer in History, SOAS, University of London.

Samira Junaid - Assistant Professor, Azim Premji University, Bangalore.

Sana Haroon - Professor, History and Asian Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston.

Sana Jamal - PhD student, Yale University.

Sanchia deSouza - , University of Toronto Scarborough.

Sangay Mishra - Associate Professor, .

Sangeeta Kamat - Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Sangeeta Ray - Professor, University of Maryland.

Sangita Gopal - Associate Professor, University of Oregon.

Sanjam Ahluwalia - Professor, WGS and History, Northern Arizona University.

Sanjana P. Rahman - PhD Student, York University.

Sanjay Barbora - , .

Sanjay Joshi - , .

Santhi Kavuri-Bauer - Professor, SFSU.

Santhosh Sadanandan - Assistant Professor, .

Sanzid Haq - , .

Sara Ali - Assistant Professor of English Literature, Quaid-i-Azam University Pakistan.

Sara Grewal - Associate Professor, MacEwan University.

Sarada Balagopalan - , Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University-Camden.

Sarah Besky - Associate Professor, ILR School and Director of the South Asia Program, Cornell University.

Sarah Eleazar - PhD Candidate, University of Texas at Austin.

Sarah Haq - Research scholar, Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence.

Sarah Waheed - Assistant Professor of History, University of South Carolina.

Sarala Emmanuel - Feminist researcher and activist Sri Lanka, .

Satya P Mohanty - Professor, Cornell University.

Sayan Bhattacharya - , .

Sayantan Datta - , Krea University (signing in individual capacity).

Sayeed Ferdous - Professor, Jahangirnagar University.

Sayori Ghoshal - Postdoctoral Fellow, Krea University, India.

Sehba Sarwar - Writer / artist, .

Senjuti Mukherjee - PhD Student, University of Pittsburgh.

Serena Hussain - Associate Professor, .

Shaashi Ahlawat - PhD Candidate, South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

Shahana Munazir - Graduate student, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Shaheed Tayob - Senior Lecturer, Stellenbosch University.

Shahina Parvin - , Brandon University.

Shailja Sharma - Professor, .

Shalini Grover - Assistant Professorial Research Fellow, .

Shalini Srinivasan - , .

Sharad Chari - , UC Berkeley.

Sharika Thiranagama - , .

Sharmadip Basu - Academic, .

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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