Decolonise Palestine Teach-In: Anti-Palestinian Racism and Solidarity Movements

Decolonise Palestine Teach-In: Anti-Palestinian Racism and Solidarity Movements

By : Jadaliyya Reports

This panel discussed the impacts of anti-Palestinian racism and the modes of solidarity movement organizing in comparative settler colonial contexts.

Speakers:


Michael Fabris
 | Department of Geography, University of British Columbia

Nimmi Gowrinathan | Founder and Director of the Politics of Sexual Violence Initiative, Colin Powell Center for Global and Civic Leadership, City College New York

Dania Majid | Co-founder and President of the Arab-Canadian Lawyers Association; Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Toronto Palestine Film Festival; Human Rights Lawyer

Adrian A. Smith | Osgoode Law School, York University

Lana Tatour | Reader in Public School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wale

Moderated by Davina Bhandar, University of British Columbia

Co-Sponsors: Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies, Simon Fraser University; Third World Approaches to International Law Review; UWIN RAACES (Researchers, Academics and Advocates Centering Equity and Solidarity, University of Windsor); Social Justice Centre, Kwantlen Polytechnic University

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