On December 8, 2023, Academics for Justice in Palestine (AJP) at UCSB held a public forum. AJP is a group of academic laborers committed to freedom and justice in Palestine. Introduced by Walid Afifi, Professor of Communication at UCSB, the event posed the question "Can We Talk about Palestine?" Afifi gave the first response with a reading of Rafeef Ziadah’s “We Teach Life Sir.” Three panelists, and four AJP members answered that question in different ways, engaging environmental and climate justice, speech, life, borders and walls, law, queer liberation, and revolution. At the end of the evening, Mona Damluji, Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies, read Refaat Al Areer’s “If I Must Die.”
Articles in the Roundtable
- Can We Talk about Palestine? Environmental and Climate Justice by David N. Pellow
- Can We Talk about Palestine? On Speech by Bishnupriya Ghosh
- Can We Talk about Palestine? On Life by Sherene Seikaly
- Can We Talk about Palestine? Borders and Walls by Lisa Sun-Hee Park
- Can We Talk about Palestine? Laws and Crimes by Lisa Hajjar
- Can We Talk about Palestine? It's A Queer Issue by Jane Ward
- Can We Talk about Palestine? Notes from a Revolutionary by Laila Shereen Sakr / VJ Um Amel
