Feminists For a Free Palestine. Stop the Genocide. End the Occupation.

Palestinians look for survivors after an Israeli airstrike in Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, on (12 October 2023). Photo by Anas-Mohammed via Shutterstock. Palestinians look for survivors after an Israeli airstrike in Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, on (12 October 2023). Photo by Anas-Mohammed via Shutterstock.

Feminists For a Free Palestine. Stop the Genocide. End the Occupation.

By : Jadaliyya Reports

[1,200 scholars who work in feminist, queer, and trans studies have signed the below statement.]

As scholars in feminist, queer, and trans studies who are rooted in social justice praxis, we refuse to stay silent while a genocide is ongoing in Gaza and a brutal war is unleashed to ethnically cleanse Palestine once again. We affirm that: 

  • We are against colonialism and genocide, whenever and wherever it is practiced.

  • We are against military occupation and ethnic cleansing, whenever and wherever it is practiced.

  • We are for the liberation and self-determination of colonized people, without exception.

  • We believe that colonized people have the right to choose their means of resistance, within the boundaries of international law, without exception.

  • We stand against apartheid, without exception.

  • We stand against war crimes, without exception.

  • We refuse the racist weighting of human life, without exception. Humanity is not a hierarchy.

  • We refuse racist, Islamophobic, antisemitic, sexist, casteist, and classist practices, discourse, and incitement to violence, without exception.

  • We refuse the killing, maiming, kidnapping, and imprisonment of children without exception, and we remember that half the population of the Gaza Strip, which is effectively an open-air prison, are children.

  • We refuse the use of colonial feminism and pinkwashing to justify genocide, without exception.

  • We refuse the use of greenwashing to cover up the destruction of land, trees, and water resources, without exception. 


We will not be silent when the bells of genocide ring. Silence is complicity.

We refuse to participate in what Palestinian feminist scholars name, “Progressive Except for Palestine (PEP).” It is straightforward–not complicated–for anyone committed to feminist and queer studies to affix our names to the above statements. Intervening into corporatist, colonial, cis heteronormative and heterosexist, and racist structures within our universities and the world drives our academic field(s).

We will not stay silent while scholars and students who are speaking up and acting against this genocide are met with the profound, highly funded apparatus that represses, free speech and thought. Remaining silent amplifies the securitization and punishment of our Black, brown, Palestinian, Arab, Jewish, or Muslim colleagues. We commit to standing up to the institutional denial of academic freedom on our campuses and any attempts to investigate, punish, or fire individuals enacting free speech rights.

We stand firm in our anticolonial and antiracist commitments, for we believe: 

None of us are free until we are all free. Palestine is not an exception. 

End the Siege. End the Occupation. Land Back.

Our feminism compels us to say: Free Palestine!

Signed Names

A. Naomi Paik

A.L. Genaro

Aaminah Shakur

Aaron Mallory

Adel Iskandar

Adela Cedillo

Adom Getachew

Adrian Ballou

Agata Dziuban

Agata Lisiak

Ahalya Ganesh

Ahlam Jbara

Ahmad Qais Munhazim

Ahmed Honeini

Aida Qasim

Aida Rosende Pérez

Ailynn Torres Santana

Aimee Bahng

Aimee Meredith Cox

Aimi Hamraie

Aisha Malik

Aisling Walsh

AK Wright

Akanksha Mehta

Alan Sears

Alanna Thain

Alanna Thain

Alejandra Marchevsky

Aleksandra Gajowy

Alex Mireles

Alex Tigchelaar

Alexis O'Hara

Ali Rachel Pearl

Alice Cheng

Alicia Decker

Alize Arican

Alize zorlutuna

Allan Isaac

Alyosxa Tudor

Amahl Bishara

Amanda Hogue

Amanda Phillips

Amanda Swarr

Ameena L. Payne

Amir Aziz

Amira Jarmakani

Amna Nasir

Amrita Kumar-Ratta

Amy Wan

Amya Agarwal

Ana Luengo

Ana Luisa Muñoz Garcia

Ana María Álvarez

Anaïs Duong-Pedica

anamaría flores

Anat Kraslavsky

Anayra Santory Jorge, Ph D

Andrea J. Ritchie

Andrea Ritchie

Andrés Fabián Henao Castro

Andrew Delatolla

Andrew I Brown

Andy Kaladelfos

Angana Chatterji

Angana Chatterji

Ángel González

Angela Y Davis

Angeles Donoso Macaya

Angie Abdelmonem

Ania Loomba

Anila Daulatzai

Anita Rapone

Anita Revilla

Anjali Arondekar

Anjana

Ankica Cakardic

Ann De Leon

Ann Russo

Anna Cahn

Anna Campbell

Anna Guevarra

Anna Kwan

Anna Pringle

Anna Storti

Anna-Claire Simpson

Annabelle Berthiaume

Annalee Ring

Anne Mulhall

Anne Stewart

Anneeth Kaur Hundle

Annie Rose O'Brien

Anthony Alessandrini

Anup Grewal

Anupama Ranawana

Aoife Daly

Aparecida S Takigawa

April Ruth Hoffmann

Araceli Esparza

Aradhana Sharma

Ardath Whynacht

Areej J

Aren Z Aizura

Arroi Baraket

Arroi Baraket

Arti Walker-Peddakotla

Arum Budiastuti

Ashley Osterlund

Asil Yassine

Asli Zengin

Asma Abbas

Athena Michalakea

Átila Augusto dos Santos

Audra Simpson

Audrey Huntley

Ayça Çubukçu

Ayesha M Imam

Ayse Akalin

Ayşenur Onaran

Ayu Rikza

Azadeh Sobout

Azure D. Osborne-Lee

B. Ethan Coston

Balbir K Singh

Bana Saadeh

Barbara Baird

Barbara Barnes

Barbara Ransby

Bassam Haddad

Becky thompson

Beenash Jafri

Begum Adalet

Benjamin Bourdages-Duclot

Berenice Bento

Berna Toprak

Bernardita M. Yunis (Varas)

Beth Currans

Beverly Bain

Beverly Guy Sheftall

Bianca lee

Bianca Williams

Bipasha Baruah

Birgit Poopuu

Blu Buchanan

breana connor

Brenna M. Casey

Breya Johnson

Brooke Lober

Brunilda Pali

Bruno Costa

Bryant W. Sculos

Burcu Nur

Cagla Ay

Cal Ivey

Cameron Michels

Camilla Fitzsimons

Camille Walsh

Canisia Lubrin

Caren Kaplan

Carla A. Pfeffer

Carol Fadda

Carolina Díaz Iñigo

Carolina González U.

Carolina Sánchez

Carolyn D'Cruz

Carolyn Todd

Carolyne J. White

Casie Iwata

Cassius Adair

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Catherine Chesnay

Catherine Kevin

Catherine SAMARY

Cathy Camper

Cecilia

Cecilia Lucero

Chamara Moore

Chandan Reddy

Chandni Desai

Chandra Talpade Mohanty

Chantal Partamian

Charles Post

Charlotte Karem Albrecht

Charmaine Crawford

Chelsea M. Frazier

Chelsea Szendi Schieder

Chelsey Sprengeler

Cherrie Moraga

Cheryl Gaster

Chloe Diamond- Lenow

Chloë MacLeod-Boucher

Chloe Young

Chris Rahim

Christina Hanhardt

Christina Heatherton

Christina Juhasz-Wood

Christina Perez

Christina Sharpe

Christina Sharpe

Christine Ahn

Christine B Balance

Christopher Nagle

Chu May Paing

Cindy Sousa

Cindy Tekobbe

Cirien Saadeh, PhD

Claire Becker

Claire Hilbrecht

Claire Sagan

Clare Bayard

Clare Hemmings

Clare Tebbutt

Clarinda Mac Low

Claudia Segal-Kischinevzky

Claudine Bonner

Colín Dayan

Colleen Lye

Columba González-Duarte

Conceição Nogueira

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Cookie Woolner

Corina Copp

Cornel Grey

Corrie Scott

Cristina Arroyo Rodriguez

Cristina Cielo

Cristina Vega

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Cynthia Franklin

Cynthia Franklin

Cyra Akila Choudhury

Cyra Choudhury

Dahiana Gamboa

Dalal Alfares

Dalia Hadjadji

Dalie Giroux

Damla Isik

Dana Luciano

Dana M Collins

Dana Olwan

Daniele Hunter

Danielle Cole

Darcy Morgan

David Adelman

David Carré

Davida Ingram

Dean Spade

Deb Vargas

Debarati Biswas

Deema Shehabi

Deepti Misri

Délice Mugabo

Dena Al-Adeeb

Derya Oezkan

Devaleena Das

Diana Figueroa

Diana Magdy

Diana Vela Almeida

Diana Zapata

Diego Lasio

Dina Al-Kassim

Dina Al-Kassim

Dina Al-Kassim

Dina Georgis

Dina M Siddiqi

Dionne Brand

Dionne Espinoza

Disha nareda

DJ Kuttin Kandi

Dominique Sirois

Dorian Taylor

Dorsaf

Douglas Ishii

Dr Amal Abu-Bakare

Dr Grace Sharkey

Dr Jennifer Philippa Eggert

Dr Kathryn Medien

Dr Kirsten Lloyd

Dr Nilmini Fernando

Dr Rosalie Clarke

Dr Zaina Gadema

Dr. Banah Ghadbian

Dr. Claire M Massey

Dr. Eileene Tejada

Dr. Marcelo da Silva Carneiro

Dr. Sé Sullivan

Dresda Mendez de la Brena

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Dyuti Chakravarty

Ebru Ustundag

Ed Cohen

Ela Przybyło

Elaine Swan

Eleanor Craig

Eleanor T Higgs

Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh

Eleonora Forenza

Elif Nur Duman Cogen

Elisabeth Massana

Eliza Steinbock

Elizabeth Fteeman

Elizabeth MacKenzie

Elizabeth Mesok

Elizabeth Saleh

Elizabeth Smith

Ellen Gould-Silcott

Elliot Dolan-Evans

Elora Chowdhury

Elora Shehabuddin

Em Rabelais

Emad aldin shoori

Emanuela Bianchi

Emily Dimiceli

Emily Hobson

Emily Johnson

Emma Crowley

Emmaia Gelman

Enaya Othman

Eng-Beng Lim

Eric Stanley

Erica Edwards

Erica Lorraine Williams

Erica Millar

Erin Eife

Erin Naomi Burrows

Erin Routon

Esha Ray

Estela Piccin

Esther McIntosh

Ethel Brooks

Ethel Tungohan

Eunjung Kim

Eva Hageman

Eva Peskin

Evan Hayles Gledhill

Eve Tuck

Evelyn Alsultany

Evelyn Autry

Evelyn Martínez Mejía

Evren Savcı

Fábio Fonseca do Nascimento

Falguni A. Sheth

Falu Bakrania

Faranak Miraftab

Fatemeh Moghaddam

Fathima Althaf

Fatima Elatik

Felicity Amaya Schaeffer

Felicity Callard

Fella Hadj Kaddour

Fenna Smits

Ferdiansyah Thajib

Fernanda Coelho

Fernanda Marín Rey

Finola Laughren

Fiona Cheng

Firuzeh Shokooh Valle

Flavia Morello Repetto

Florencia Paz Landeira

Frances Varian

Francesco Serri

Francesco Sticchi

Francine Moccio

Francisca de Haan

Françoise Vergès

Frann Michel

Freeha Riaz

G Patel

Gabeba Baderoon

Gabriella Nassif

Gail Lewis

Gary Lee Pelletier

Gaurav Jashnani

Gayatri Gopinath

Gayatri Reddy

Gayatri Sethi

Gaye Theresa Johnson

Georgina Alonso

Georgina Gifford

Ghaliya Djelloul

Gina Velasco

Giovanna Esposito Yussif

Gladys M Jiménez-Muñoz

Gloria Negrete-Lopez

Gloria Novovic

Grace Kyungwon Hong

Greta LaFleur

Gretel H. Vera-Rosas

Gulzar R Charania

Gwen Bartleman

Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons

Hailey Colpitts

Hala Abdelgawad

Haleh

Hamidreza Vasheghanifarahani

Hanan Toukan

Hannah Breithaupt

Hannah Gillard

Hannah Manshel

Hannah Wright

Hayat Hasan

Heather Hodge

Heather Milne

Heather Rose

Heather Snell

Heba Gowayed

Heidi R. Lewis

Heidi Rhodes

Heike Schotten

Helen Jun

Helene Strauss

Helga Tawil-Souri

Herman Gray

Himika B

Himmat Zoubi

Hiram Perez

Hoda Elsadda

Holly Lewis

Hosu Kim

Houria Bouteldja

Ian Ramirez

Ichraq Matar

Ilā Ravichandran

Ilaria Michelis

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Inaash Islam

Inderpal Grewal

Indrani Chatterjee

Ines Duran Matute

Intimaa Alsdudi

Iqra Shagufta Cheema

Irene Lara

Irene Molina

Iris Hernández Morales

Isabel Amarante

Isabelle Beatus

Ishita Tiwary

Isis Nusair

Islah jad

Iyko Day

J. Kēhaulani Kauanui

Jackie muraelli

Jacob Evoy

Jaden Janak

Jaimee Swift

Jake Pyne

Jalondra A. Davis

Jamella Gow

James Beirne

James Gardiner

Jamie J. Hagen

Jane Carey

Janell Tryon

Janelle M. Silva

Jas Rault

Jasbir Puar

Jasmine Gani

Jaya Keaney

Jayanthi Lingham

Jean Beaman

Jelena Petrovic

Jen Ash

Jenean McGee

Jenine Marsh

Jennie Jiang

Jennifer Blecha

Jennifer Brier

Jennifer Denetdale

Jennifer Kelly

Jennifer Kelly

Jennifer Liu

Jennifer Vilchez

Jenny L. Davis

JESOOK SONG

Jess Bier

Jesse Arseneault

Jessica Bonilla-Damptey

Jessica Hinton

Jessica N. Pabón-Colón

Jessica Shaw

Jessica Winegar

Jia Guo

Jigna Desai

Jih-Fei Cheng

Jina B. Kim

Jinsook Kim

Jiyoung Bae

Joan Meyers

Joana DArc Meireles

Joanna Nunez

João Manuel de Oliveira

Jodi A. Byrd

Jodi Dean

Jodi Kim

Jodi Melamed

Joelson Gonçalves dos Santos

John Harfouch

Jordana Silverstein

José Manuel Santillana Blanco

Joseph M. Pierce

Joshua Falek

Joshua M. Hall

Joy Ellison

Joyce Portilla

Judith E.Tucker

Judith Surkis

Judith Taylor

Judith Van Allen

Julia Chang

Juliana Hu Pegues

Juliane Hammer

Juliane Hammer

Julie Carlier

Julie Setele

Julie Weber

Juno Richards

Juno Salazar Parreñas

JuPong Lin

Justin Quang Nguyên Phan

Jyoti Puri

K Allison Hammer

K Sapere

K. Marshall Green

Kadji Amin

Kaiden James

Kalpana Kannabiran

Kamari Clarke

Kamile Batur

Karen Chow

Karen Miller

Karen Su

Karen Suyemoto

Karen Tongson

Karina Goulordava

Karine Walther

Karl Bryant

Karla Maria González Castillo

Karma R. Chávez

Kate Cairns

Kate Henne

Kate Houlden

Kate Korycki

Kate McCullough

Katharina Grüneisl

Katherine Howell

Kathleen McCallie

Kathleen Sheldon

Kathleen Young

Kathryn L.

Kathryn Shanley

Kathryn Trevenen

Katie Hemsworth

Katie Powell Rachid

Katie Stone

Katrina Daly Thompson

Kavita Ashana Singh

Kay

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Keira Williams

Kelly Panchyshyn

Kelvin Ramirez

Keva X. Bui

Khaoula Zoghlami

Khushi S Rathore

Kim Allen

Kim Icreverzi

Kira Shepherd

Kiran Kaur Grewal

Kirisitina Sailiata

Kong Pheng Pha

Korinta Maldonado

Kris Clarke

Krista Benson

Krista Lynes

Kristen Bos

Kristen Ukeomah

Kristine Kellejian

Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW, RSW

Kwanda Scott

Kyle Wanberg

Kylie Thomas

L.H. Stallings

Laila Farah

Laila Shereen Sakr

Laleh Khalili

Lamia Horrigue

Lamia Moghnieh

Lamiae Bouqentar

Lana Sirri

Lara Deeb

Lara Deeb

Lara Witt

Latoya Lee

Laura Cayen, PhD

Laura Gutierrez

Laura Jennings

Laura Kina

Laura Menchaca Ruiz

Laura Nelson

Laura Terrance

Lauren Gutterman

lauren nilsson

Lauren Pragg

laurence lainesse

Laurie Adkin

Layal ftouni

Lea Hamilton

Lea Nocera

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Leandro Colling

Leanna Papp

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Leanne Day

Leigh Dodson

Leila Celis

Leila Gomez

Leila Pourtavaf

Lelya Troncoso

Lena Burgos-Lafuente

Leslie Dunlap

Leslie Kay Jones

Leslie Salzinger

Liam Mitchell

Liat Ben-Moshe

Liliana Conlisk Gallegos

Lilith Mahmud

Lina-Maria Murillo

Linnie Caye

Lisa Diedrich

Lisa Duggan

Lisa Kealohapa’aokahaleole Hall

Lisa Lowe

Lisa Mendoza Knecht

Lisa Tilley

Liz Ablett

Liz Montegary

Liz Shercliff

Lois Rita Helmbold

Loren Redwood

Lorena Fries Monleón

Lorgia García Peña

Lori Root

Louise Penner

Lu Rose Biltucci

Luanjiao Hu

Luce Beeckmans

Lucia Amorosi

Lucrezia Perrig

Lucy Burns

Luiza Prado

Lyla Mehta

Lyn Alexander

Lynn Fujiwara

Lynne Segal

M. Aziz

M. Kayt Sunwood

Madaline Barry

Maddalena Cannito

Madeline Taylor

Maeve Hanna

Magdalena Olszanowski

Mahboobeh ghaedzade

MahinMahruq K.

Mai-Linh Hong

Maira Asif

Maleeha Mubashiruddin

Malek Abisaab

Maneo Mohale

Manijeh Moradian

Manisha Desai

Manju Rajendran

Manu-Sophie Linder

Mara Ahmed

Mara G. Uriol Gárate

Mara Mills

Marcela Morales Magaña

Marcin Smietana

Maree Pardy

Margaret Cerullo

Margarida Mafra

Margaux L Kristjansson

Margo Stebbing

Margot Pujal Llombart

Margot Weiss

Maria Aparecida de Souza

Maria Claudia Huerta Vera

Maria Cotera

Maria Dalhoff

Maria Hantzopoulos,

Maria Hupfield

Maria Konijn

Maria Mejia

Mariam Georgis

Mariangela Mihai

Maricela Portillo

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Marie Draz

Marina Baldissera Pacchetti

Marina Costin Fuser

Marisa Solomon

Marisel Moreno

Marisol LeBrón

Marjan Alipur

Marlihan Lopez

Marni Appleton

Marsha Henry

Marta Bellingreri

Martha Biondi

Mary Christianakis

Mary Jo Klinker

Mary McAuliffe

Mary Owen

Mary Senyonga

Mary Stephens

Maryam Griffin

Maryam Kashani

Marziya Mohammedali

Matthew Knip

Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem

Max Airborne

Max Kilby

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Maya Day

Maya John

Maya Mikdashi

Maya Scott-Chung

Maylei Blackwell

Meagan Harden

Meaghan Morris

Medrar Sallem-Âati

Meeta Rani Jha

Megan Bang

Megan Lombardo

megan spencer

Meiver De la Cruz

Mejdulene Shomali

Melanie Richter-Montpetit

Melisa Brittain

Melissa Burnias

Melissa Bush

Melissa Weiner

Meredeth Turshen

Mia Vizcaino

Micaela Pattison

Micah Khater

Mich Ling

Michael Orsini

Michaelle Browers

Michele Statz

Michelle Ferrier, Ph.D.

Michelle Garvey

Michelle Velasquez Potts

Mike Gill

Mila Heneck

Milli Lake

Mimi Kim

Minna Salami

Minoo Moallem

Minoo Moallem

Miranda A. Green-Barteet

Mireille Malaket

Miriam Ticktin

Mirza Taslima Sultana

Molly Benitez

Molly Gray

Molly Talcott

Mona Corinna Griesberg

Montserrat Sagot

Mrinalini Chakravorty

Mrinalini Sinha

Muireann O'Dweyr

Mukti Lakhi Mangharam

Muneira Hoballah

Muzna Al-Masri

Myriam Richard

Mythili Rajiva

Mythily Meher

Nabiha Yahiaoui

Nada Elia

Nada Shabout

Nadia Benaissa

Nadia Guessous

Nadine Attewell

Nadine Naber

Nadja Eisenberg-Guyot

Nadya Sbaiti

Nael Bhanji

Najwa Mayer

Nalini Iyer

Nancy Dantas

Nancy Welch

Naomi de Szegheo-Lang

Naouress bellili

Nasrin Khandoker

Natalee Kehaulani Bauer

Natalia Brizuela

Natalia Landivar

Natalia Santos-Orozco

Natalie Bennett

Natalie Kouri-Towe

Natalie Leduc

Natasa Petresin Bachelez

Natasha Aruri

Nathan Alexander Moore

Navanita Bhattacharya

Nazan Üstündağ

Neel Ahuja

Neelofer Qadir

Neferti Tadiar

Nelli Sargsyan

Nelly Bassily

Neveser Köker

Nevine El Nossery

Nguyen Tan Hoang

Nic Cloyd

Nichole Shippen

Nick Daily

Nicola Pratt

Nicole Khoury

Nicole Nguyen

Nidzara Ahmetasevic

Nila Manalo

Niloofar Rasooli

Nina Ferrante

Nina K.

Nirmala Erevelles

Nirnoy Islam

Nisha Nath

Nishant Upadhyay

Nithila Kanagasabai

Nithya rajan

Noah Tamarkin

Noemi Alfieri

Noemi Ixchel Atagracia Turull Martinez

Nomy Lamm

Noora Kassab

Nora Berenstain

Norma Claire Moruzzi

Noura Erakat

Ochy Curiel

Oda-Kange Midtvåge Diallo, PhD

Olena Lyubchenko

Olga Touloumi

OmiSoore Dryden

Oriel María Siu

Pablo Pérez Navarro

Pam Butler

Pamela Thoma

Pamila Matharu

Panhali Ray

Paola Bacchetta

Paola Rivetti

Paola Rudan

Pari Farmani

Parsa Bastani

Patricia Castillo

Patricia Guernelli Palazzo Tsai

Patricia Krueger-Henney

Patricia Zavella

Patrizia Zanella

Paul Manning

Paula Chakravartty

Paula X. Rojas

Pauline Hwang

Pavithra Vasudevan

Payten Kleinhenz

Pinky Hota

Piper Sledge

Piya Chatterjee

Poulomi Choudhury

Preethi Krishnan

Premilla Nadasen

Priya Kandaswamy

Promona Sengupta

Punam Khosla

Rabab Abdulhadi

Rachel Afi Quinn

Rachel Bayer

Rachel Berger

Rachel Caidor

Rachel E. Luft

Rachel Goffe

Rachel Rubin

Radhika Balakrishnan

Radhika Govindrajan

Rahaf Aldoughli

Rahul Rao

Raka Shome

Raka Shome

Rakshi Rath

Rama Ali Kased

Ramah McKay

Rana Jaleel

Rania El Mugammar

Rasha Chatta

Rebecca Anweiler

Rebecca Beaulne Stuebing

Rebecca Casalino

Rebecca Close

Rebecca H. Hogue

Rebecca Houston

Rebecca Meckelburg

Rebecca Waxman

Reeham Mourad

Renee Levant

Renisa Mawani

Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt

Rhaysa Ruas

Ricardo Robles

Richa Nagar

Rimel I. Mehleb

Rinaldo Walcott

Rita Kaur Dhamoon

Rita Ryan

Rita Shah

Ritash

Ritty Lukose

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Robin D. G. Kelley

Robyn Baldridge

Robyn C. Spencer-Antoine

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Roderick A. Ferguson

Rodrigo Karmy

Roewan Crowe

Ronak K. Kapadia

Rongili Biswas

Ronit Lentin

Rosa-Linda Fregoso

Rose M. Kim

Rosie Clarke

Roxana Paniagua Humeres

Roxana Pey

Roxane Pajoul

Roxanne Douglas

Rua M. Williams

Rushaan Kumar

Ryan Persadie

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SA Smythe

Sa Whitley

Saadet Durmaz

Saadia Toor

Saba Hussain

Sabah Uddin

Sabiha Allouche

Sabina González Ortiz

Sabina Vaught

Sabine Broeck

Sabra Bano

Sabrina Jamal-Eddine

Sadia Abbas

Safa Ben saad

Sahana Ghosh

Sahar Al-Najjar

Saida Derrazi

Saida Hodžić

Sailaja Krishnamurti

Saima Siddiqui

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Salomi Christie

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Sam Harrell

Samar Al-Bulushi

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Sameen Ali

Samina Luthfa

Samira zabih

Sana Tannoury-Karam

Sanchari Pal

Sandeep Bakshi

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Sanjam Ahluwalia

Sanjam Ahluwalia

Sanjukta Mukherjee

Sanne Weber

Sapana Doshi

Sara Ahmed

Sara Appel

Sara C. Motta

Sara Cufré

Sara Farris

Sara Jane Stoner

Sara Smith

Sara Yacoub

Sarah Abboud

Sarah Ahmad

Sarah beatty

Sarah Bracke

Sarah Bracke

Sarah Doherty

Sarah Gilbert

Sarah Greefkens

Sarah Ihmoud

Sarah Kessler

Sarah María Acosta Ahmad

Sarah O'Connor

Sarah Scott

Sarah Vamvounis

Sarah Watkins

Sarita See

Sasha A. Khan

Sasha Sabherwal

Sathya Thillainathan

Savannah Kilner

Sawsan Abdulrahim

Scott Burnett

Scott Long

Scott Ross

Seda Saluk

Selena Sherstone

Sena Nurhan Duran

Senel Wanniarachchi

Sepideh Cheraghi

Setsu Shigematsu

Sevgi Dogan

Shabana Mir

Shadia Marji

Shailja Patel

Shaira Vadasaria

Shaka McGlotten

Shamara Alhassan

Shana Bulhan

Shana M. griffin

Shanna Katz Kattari

Shannon Gibney

Shannon Muegge

Shantel Gabrieal Buggs

Sharae Deckard

Sharon Lipsky

Sharon Yam

Sharonee Dasgupta

Shawna Tang

Shefali Chandra

Shehnaz Abdeljaber

Shehnaz Haqqani

Sheila Sampath

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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