Attacks on the Concept of Settler Colonialism Are About Undermining Solidarity
“Surviving settler colonialism isn’t just about surviving its material realities, it’s also about surviving how settler colonialism requires destroying cultures, and languages, and sensibilities, and values, and ways of being in the world,” says scholar and activist Nadine Naber. In this episode, Nadine and I discuss the connections between the struggle for Palestinian liberation and U.S. movements against police and prisons, the history of Palestinian and Arab organizing in the U.S., and why attacks on the analytical framework of settler colonialism are about undermining solidarity. Don't miss it!
If you need a transcript, you can find that here.
Show Notes
- To learn more from Nadine, you can check out her website. You can also watch this webinar about abolition and the liberation of Palestine or read Nadine’s most recent piece, “When Abolitionists Say “Free Them All,” We Mean Palestine Too.”
- To hear more from Kelly, between episodes, you can sign up for her newsletter.
Organizing Toolkits
- All Out for Palestine – Digital Action Toolkit (Palestinian Feminist Collective)
- Gaza Under Attack Toolkit (Jewish Voice for Peace)
Popular Education
Organizations
- Mamas Activating Movements for Abolition & Solidarity has a new website in the works. You can contact the group here.
- The Palestinian Feminist Collective is a body of Palestinian and Arab feminists committed to Palestinian social and political liberation by confronting systemic gendered, sexual, and colonial violence, oppression, and dispossession. You can learn more about their work here.
- INCITE! is a network of radical feminists of color organizing to end state violence and violence in our homes and communities. You can learn more about their work here.
- The Arab American Action Network (AAAN) strives to strengthen the Arab community in the Chicago area by building its capacity to be an active agent for positive social change. Their strategies include community organizing, advocacy, education, providing social services, leadership development, cultural outreach and forging productive relationships with other communities. You can learn more about their work here.
Referenced
- The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein
- Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future by Patty Krawec
- Israel’s Tools of Occupation Are Tested on Palestine and Exported Globally (Kelly Hayes in conversation with Antony Loewenstein)
- The Extreme Ambitions of West Bank Settlers by Isaac Chotiner
- How the US and Israel exchange tactics in violence and control by Mersiha Gadzo
- Dirty secret of Israel’s weapons exports: They’re tested on Palestinians Paddy Dowling
- Israel’s Occupation Inspired the Brutal Security Regime at the US-Mexico Border by Todd Miller
