Full Description
The ongoing devastation in Gaza and other parts of Palestine, alongside the systematic destruction of Palestinian universities, has coincided with intensified censorship and repression within Western academic institutions. These developments reveal the distinctive position that Zionism and its defense has held for decades within Western imperial structures, creating patterns of epistemic injustice.
Palestine and the Western Academe emerges from a collective sense of political and intellectual urgency in response to mounting repression against scholars and students working on and studying Palestine. While attacks on academic freedom and freedom of speech in Western academia have intensified, they have been met with new forms of resistance and disobedience, bolstered by coalitional anti- racist and anti- capitalist solidarities extending from Palestine globally.
This edited volume brings together significant contributions from scholars and students offering fresh approaches to the epistemic and political struggles surrounding Palestine. It demonstrates the timely and enduring relevance of the Palestinian question to international academic spaces and is essential reading for academics, researchers, and students interested in Middle Eastern Studies, Political Science, International Relations, Critical Theory, Decolonial Studies, and Academic Freedom discourse.
Most of the chapters in this book were originally published in Middle East Critique. This edition comes with several new chapters and an updated introduction, offering fresh perspectives and expanded analysis on these urgent and evolving issues.
Contents
Introduction: Palestine and the Global Struggle for Epistemic Justice 1. Resistance to Repression and Back Again: The Movement for Palestinian Liberation in US Academia 2. 'Axis of Evil' and the Academic Repression of Palestine Solidarity 3. Antisemitism and Zionism: The Internal Operations of the IHRA Definition 4. The Free Speech Exception to Palestine 5. Witnessing the Architecture of a Cancellation: The Silencing of Voices on Palestine in Austrian Academia 6. Erasing Palestine in Germany's Educational System: The Racial Frontiers of Liberal Freedom 7. Intent to Harm: Settler Colonial Outposts in Psychoanalysis 8. Palestine Solidarity and Zionist Backlash in Australian Universities 9. Australian Universities in the Gaza Genocide: Managerial Capitulation, Staff and Student Resistance 10. A Land Acknowledgment in a Different Key: Palestine, Solidarity and the Disruption of the Liberal Script 11. The Coloniality of Academic Freedom and the Palestine Exception 12. Do Not Cower to Zionists: How Hillel International is Targeting Anti-Zionist Work on North American College Campuses 13. Scholasticidal Tendencies: Notes on Academia During Genocide 14. Palestine and the Ends of Theory 15. Palestine is the Vanguard for Our Liberation: Insights from the Students' Intifada at Columbia University 16. Becoming Combat Intellectuals: The Student Intifada at CUNY 17. Forging Anticolonial Solidarity in the Hour of Genocide Haki/Pláticas on Complicity, Dissent and Protest in a Belgian University 18. Still Balfour's University: Upholding Al-Thawabet in the Face of 'Necro-Bureaucracy' 18. Balfour's Imperial Legacy: Genocide and the Incommensurable Politics of Decolonial Redress
