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 […]
Part memoir, part research, the essay traces conditions of Palestinian identity in her own life from the early 1970s through to contemporary orientalist treatments of Palestine and Palestinians in the West. Matuk, Nyla. “The Elephant in the Room” in Emily Regan Wills, Jeremy Wildeman, Michael Bueckert and Nadia Abu-Zahra, eds. Advocating for Palestine in Canada:
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Edited by Emily Regan Wills, Jeremy Wildeman, Michael Bueckert and Nadia Abu-Zahra, and a Foreword by Libby Davies. Why is it so difficult to advocate for Palestine in Canada and what can we learn from the movement’s successes? This account of Palestine solidarity activism in Canada grapples with these questions through a wide-ranging exploration
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On October 22, Israel issued a military order designating six prominent Palestinian human rights groups – Addameer, Al-Haq, Defense for Children International-Palestine, the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, the Bisan Center for Research and Development, and the Union of Palestinian Women Committees – as “terrorist organisations”…. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/12/7/what-is-israels-word-worth
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An interview with Mark Muhannad Ayyash https://www.3cr.org.au/palestine/episode-202112040930/palestine-remembered-dr-mark-muhannad-ayyash
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The Palestinian-Canadian Academics and Artists Network (PCAAN) applauds CAUT’s resolution opposing the adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Working Definition of Antisemitism (IHRA WDA) at Canadian universities and colleges. In doing so, CAUT has sent a clear message: governments and states cannot invalidate and criminalize, for the sake of their narrow self-interest, what many
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Ayyash, Mark M. (2021). “Palestine as Stage.” Journal of Visual Culture 20 (2): 307-311. http://www.journalofvisualculture.org/uploads/6/3/6/8/6368912/palestine_portfolio.pdf
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In an equity talk he was asked to give to members of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) two weeks ago, Desmond Cole, a well-known Black author, activist, and journalist in Canada, dared to utter two words: Free Palestine. The moment he said it, moderators demanded he explain how Free Palestine doesn’t entail the “destruction
Nicola Ziadeh (1907–2006) and Anis Sayigh (1931–2009) were ubiquitousPalestinian public intellectuals of the second half of the twentieth century, whose voices could be heard on the Arab world’s major broadcasting networks, whose pens defined or shaped the columns of its press, and who devoted a lifetime to building the institutional pillars of Palestinian culture and,
According to the Israeli state and pro-Israel groups, the Palestinian critique of Israel ultimately stems from a disposition of evil and hate. Pick any of these groups, and you’ll find repeated ad nauseum the assertion that this critique is geared towards the “vilification” and “demonization” of Israel, as if that is the end goal of