Archive for the ‘Israel/Palestine’ Category

Join your host, J Kēhaulani Kauanui, for Part I of a two-part episode that focuses on the Palestinian struggle as an indigenous people’s struggle. How is indigeneity contested in the Israeli state project? How do the frameworks of settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and genocide work in Zionist projects of occupation? What are the parallels between […]


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25Feb11

Dear all, We are pleased to announce that the first issue of settler colonial studies is now available for your viewing. Check it out here. In this stage of its life, settler colonial studies is an online, open-access journal. There are may benefits of such a medium (among them, universally free access, and immediate registration […]


John Collins, ‘Between Acceleration and Occupation: Palestine and the Struggle for Global Justice’, Studies in Social Justice 4, 2 (2010) This article explores the contemporary politics of global violence through an examination of the particular challenges and possibilities facing Palestinians who seek to defend their communities against an ongoing settler-colonial project (Zionism) that is approaching […]


A provocative piece in mondoweiss: Welcome to Palestine, even if it’s a century later. Now let’s reset the relationship. You came from faraway lands claiming an already inhabited one. Oppressed, massacred, and socially separated in Christendom/Europe, you felt as outsiders subject to anti-Semitic threats. Eventually, with the colonial age, a group of you, Eastern Europeans […]


Hadas Weiss, ‘On value and values in a West Bank settlement’, American Ethnologist 38, 1(2011) In this article, I use value theory to interrogate values in the West Bank settlement of Beit-El, particularly the coexistence of pragmatism with the valorization of self-sacrifice. My aims are threefold: to make sense of West Bank settlement values specifically, […]


Here’s a teaser for the forthcoming settler colonial studies 1 (2011). ARTICLES Lorenzo Veracini: Introducing settler colonial studies pp. 1-12 Patrick Wolfe: After the Frontier: Separation and Absorption in US Indian Policy pp. 13-50 Scott Lauria Morgensen: The Biopolitics of Settler Colonialism: Right Here, Right Now pp. 51-75 Ivan Sablin and Maria Savelyeva: Mapping Indigenous […]


 Far from Iowa, likely Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee told a crowd of Jewish Israelis yesterday that he’d be just as mad as they are if anybody tried to kick him out of America the way Israelis are being asked to not build or live in disputed lands. “I cannot imagine as an American […]


Highlights from the H-Net discussion network. Is this list an academic platform or a mediator for political propaganda and agitation? — … it seems still in accordance with an academic platform, unless I assume one consider’s the list of internationally/academically acknowledged speakers and chairs [both Palestinian and Israeli in fact] non-academic because they dont reiterate […]


David Lloyd and Laura Pulido, ‘In the Long Shadow of the Settler: On Israeli and U.S. Colonialisms’, American Quarterly 62, 4 (2010). This forum discusses the comparative dimensions of settler colonialism in Israel and the U.S.-Mexico border region, including separation walls, issues of migration, and the control of movement, dispossession, and settlement. The contributions take […]