Judith Butler: ‘I affirm a Judaism that is not associated with state violence’
Yesterday (the 26th of Aug) the Jerusalem Post published an attack on the awarding of a major international prize to Judith Butler, the philosopher and Berkeley professor of comparative literature,...
View ArticleDebating BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions): Fraser v UCU
On March 22nd, 2013 the Employment Tribunal (UK-London) rendered judgment in the case of Fraser v University & College Union (UCU). Ruling in favour of UCU, the Tribunal’s judgment brought immense...
View ArticleSome Reflections on BDS and Feminist Political Solidarity
We are not asking you for heroic action or to form freedom brigades. We are simply asking you not to be complicit in perpetuating the crimes of the Israeli state.1 A little over two years ago, on March...
View ArticlePalestinian Feminist Critique and the Physics of Power: Feminists Between...
The Palestinian woman in the Jewish state is a woman who confronts and defies bio-political, geopolitical and necropolitical Zionist settler colonialism, as well as socio-patriarchal oppression. The...
View ArticleIt is our belief that Palestine is a feminist issue .…
So long as antiwar activists denounce the U.S. occupation of Iraq, but not Israel’s occupation of Palestine, I will keep drawing the parallels. So long as Western feminists denounce the oppression of...
View ArticleBodies, Buses, and Permits: Palestinians Navigating Care
In May 2013, I traveled to Palestine for six months to collect data for a research project that examines the cultural and visual productions of natalist images, including pregnancy and birth. During...
View ArticleLessons from Gaza: Human Rights (2009/2014)
According to UN Human Rights High Commissioner, Navi Pillay, “there appears to be a deliberate defiance on the part of Israel in complying with its international obligations. We should not allow this...
View ArticleWalter Benjamin in Palestine
“The law which is studied but no longer practiced is the gate to justice. The gate to justice is study.” — Walter Benjamin, “Franz Kafka.”1 Walter Benjamin never did go to Palestine. Despite frequent...
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