The academic question of Palestine

Walaa Alqaisiya*, Nicola Perugini

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This article provides theoretical and contextual background to The Academic Question of Palestine.’ Building on the work of Edward Said, we maintain that Palestine constitutes a unique question with special status in international academic spaces, particularly in the West, because of its entanglement with other imperial and settler colonial forms of dispossession. We argue that the special place that Zionism and its defence has occupied for decades in academia has rendered Palestine one of the thorniest and most divisive issues of our time. In the new millennium, the birth of the BDS movement; the emergence of new solidarities with global anti-racist movements; the scholarly and human rights consensus that Israel constitutes a regime settler colonial apartheid; the acceleration of Zionist violence, until the Gaza genocide, have generated new forms of repression and resistance in the academic space. This Special Issue offers the tools for understanding these recent transformations of the question of Palestine.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)299-311
Number of pages13
JournalMiddle East Critique
Volume33
Issue number3
Early online date18 Aug 2024
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • academia
  • Palestine
  • repression
  • resistance
  • Zionism

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