In light of the provisional measures ordered by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Israel in relation to grave breaches of the Genocide Convention, we are writing to you on behalf of Faculty for Palestine Canada, the Jewish Faculty Network and the Palestinian-Canadian Academics and Artists Network to request that your university take urgent […]
Joint Statement on Canadian Universities and Palestine Read More »
الفلسطينيون باقون ولن يتم افناؤهم تعبر شبكة الأكاديميين والفنانين الفلسطينيين الكنديين عن استنكارها للتجاهل العارم للصدمة والحزن الذي يمر بهما المجتمع الكندي الفلسطيني في هذا الوقت الحرج. ان المؤسسات الرسمية الكندية قد تغافلت حق الشعب الفلسطيني في التحرر وتقرير المصير والانتماء الى الأرض كما هو منصوص عليه في قرارات الأمم المتحدة، وكما تم التأكيد على
بيان صادر عن شبكة الأكاديميين والفنانين الفلسطينيين الكنديين Read More »
Si c’est la guerre, M. Nétanyahou, la IVe Convention de Genève interdit à la puissance occupante que vous êtes, de transférer sa population dans le territoire occupé : 700 000 colons israéliens vivent pourtant aujourd’hui en Cisjordanie et à Jérusalem-Est, dans 279 colonies illégales en droit international. En toute impunité. Bien que pas un seul pays
“Si c’est la guerre” by Dyala Hamzah Read More »
Palestinians will not be erased. The Palestinian Canadian Academics and Artists Network (PCAAN) is appalled at the wholesale erasure of the shock and grief experienced by the Palestinian Canadian community at this time. The inalienable need for liberation, the right of self-determination, and the inviolable belonging of the Palestinian people to the land, as inscribed
PCAAN Statement on the Attack on Palestine Read More »
Abstract This article provides a comprehensive overview of Israeli green colonialism, denoting the apartheid state’s misappropriation of environmentalism to eliminate the Indigenous people of Palestine and usurp its resources. I focus on the violence of ‘protected areas’, encompassing national parks, forests, and nature reserves. This article argues that Israel primarily establishes them to (1) justify
The Palestinian-Canadian Academics and Artists Network (PCAAN) urges post-secondary education establishments across Canada to exercise anxious scrutiny and due diligence in reviewing any and all policies, rules, regulations and practices that discriminate against, delegitimize, marginalize, silence and dehumanize Palestinian and Pro-Palestine faculty and students on Canadian campuses. It insists on a thorough and genuine stocktaking,
PCAAN Statement on Anti-Palestinian Racism in Canada Read More »
September 20, 2022 In late August, approximately two dozen Canadian university Presidents and other university administrators participated in a trip to Israel. The delegation included Presidents from Concordia University, Dalhousie University, University of Manitoba, McGill University, University of Ottawa, University of Waterloo, Western University, and York University, among others. The timing of this delegation raises
Join this workshop to learn from Aida Al-Thayabeh about confronting and teaching the intersectionality of Anti-Muslim and Anti-Black racism. This presentation will tackle the ways anti-Muslim racism cannot be removed from anti-Black racism. The intersectionality is commonly disregarded and viewed as incompatible with one another. The two forms of hate are interconnected and continue to
Intersectionality of Anti-Muslim & Anti-Black Racism Workshop Read More »
Speakers: Mark Muhannad Ayyash, Veldon Coburn, and Miko Peled January 19, 2022 07:00 PM Eastern Time The Olive Branch Think Tank is hosting a panel to discuss Canada’s role in the systemic treatment of the First Nation communities throughout Canada’s history and its intersection and parallels with the oppression of the Palestinian people. The discussion
Turtle Island and Palestine: Common Pains Read More »
For the past fifteen years, we have worked jointly and equally as political scientists with roots in the Palestinian (Abu-Laban) and Jewish (Bakan) diasporic and cultural traditions to analyze Israel/Palestine in relation to race, racism, and anti-racism. For much of the post-World War Two era, race has been curiously absent within political science scholarship in