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“The Israel/Palestine Conflict and the Challenge of Anti-Racism: A Case Study of the United Nations World Conference Against Racism” by Abigail B. Bakan and Yasmeen Abu-Laban

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ABSTRACT This article forwards an analysis about Israel/Palestine in relation to race in global context, through the case study of the UN World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) process (2001–2011). Although the WCAR has been widely framed as “antisemitic” we demonstrate this interpretation is unfounded, through highlighting legitimate claims for Palestinian human rights and other oppressed […]

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“Building from the rubble: Palestinian resistance and the road to liberation” by Mark Muhannad Ayyash

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THE PALESTINIAN LITERARY CRITIC and anti-colonial theorist, Edward Said, taught us that “The native point of view . . . is not an ethnographic fact only . . . it is in large measure a continuing, protracted, and sustained adversarial resistance” to academic, cultural, and political discourses of empire…. https://thebaffler.com/latest/building-from-the-rubble-ayyash

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“The Red Priest of Haifa: Rafiq Farah (1921–2020)” by Randa Farah

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ABSTRACT: Rafiq Farah, archdeacon of the Anglican Church and the author’s father, chaired the Society for the Defense of Arab Minority Rights in Israel from 1951 to 1965. This article draws on oral history recorded by the author, on personal documents, and on archival material to chronicle the events that led to the Society’s formation,

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“Break the fear barrier and speak up for Palestine” by Mark Muhannad Ayyash

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Scholars of social movements, civil disobedience, liberation struggles, and revolutions have long known that fear is one of the greatest barriers to overcome. For the oppressed to move from inaction to action, they must break this fear barrier. In extreme cases, such as Palestinians living under Israeli settler colonialism, the fear is based on lived

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“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark’: an open letter to Justin Trudeau regarding Palestine” by Dyala Hamzah

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Whether it is your bias in favor of Israel that recently cost you your seat on the UN Security Council, it is a fact that in the space of five years you have voted “no” 50 times to UN resolutions in favor of Palestine. Of the 166 “no” votes by Canada since 2000 this represents

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“A Pandemic in an Age of Omnipresent Sovereign Power: The Plight of Palestine” by Mark Muhannad Ayyash

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ABSTRACT The essay focuses on three features of the COVID-19 pandemic in Palestine, each highlighting one of the interconnected dimensions of settler colonial sovereign power. First is the governance of life, where every aspect of Palestinian life is governed  through population lockdowns. Second is the control over death, where the infected Palestinian body is disposed

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“Le ver a toujours été dans le fruit” by Dyala Hamzah

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Le doctorant en histoire Bernard Bohbot conteste qu’il puisse y avoir un lien entre la croissance du nombre de colons israéliens en Cisjordanie et le processus issu des accords d’Oslo (« Les accords d’Oslo visaient-ils à déposséder les Palestiniens ? », Le Devoir, 17 juillet). Esquivant la question de la nature de ces derniers et

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