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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.
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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
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Walaa Alqaisiya is a Scholar of Middle East Studies based at Northwest University in the People's Republic of China. She received her PhD in Human Geography from Durham University (UK), and taught at the Department of Gender Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE, UK). Her research spans Indigenous ecologies, gender and sexuality studies, and decolonial theories. Her book
Decolonial Queering in Palestine (Routledge 2022) examines how Palestinian queer politics challenge Zionist settler-colonialism while imagining a free Palestine beyond the Oslo impasse. Alqaisiya's work appears in prestigious journals including
Social and Cultural Geography, Political Geography, Radical Philosophy, and
Palestine Studies. Building on research from her Global Marie Curie Fellowship across Ca' Foscari University (Italy), Columbia University (USA), and LSE, she currently studies colonial ecocidal violence and Indigenous women's ecologies from Palestine to Turtle Island. She serves on the editorial boards of
Middle East Critique and
Gender Place and Culture.
Nicola Perugini teaches International Politics at the University of Edinburgh (UK), focusing on international law, human rights, and violence. He co-authored
The Human Right to Dominate (2015),
Morbid Symptoms (2017), and
Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire (2020). His research spans war ethics, human rights politics, humanitarianism, refugee studies, and settler-colonialism. His current project, "Decolonising the Civilian," examines decolonization, international law, and civilian status in armed conflicts. Perugini has held prestigious positions at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, Brown University (Mellon Fellow), and as a Marie Sk¿odowska-Curie and Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow. He previously taught at the American University of Rome, Al Quds Bard College (where he directed the Human Rights Program), and University of Bologna. He has served as a consultant for UNESCO and UN Women. His opinion pieces have appeared in several publications including
Al Jazeera, London Review of Books, Jewish Currents, and
The Nation.
