Date: 13 November 2024, 1:00 PM EST - Zoom
The International Contours of Zionist Repression
The Coalition Against Zionist Repression invites you to an international panel organised by Coalition members, Alana Lentin (Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism Founding Collective member) and Anna Younes (Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism Advisory Board member).
RSVP: The International Contours of Zionist Repression
Zionist organisations and lobby groups, in conjunction with governments, universities, public and private bodies, and the mainstream media have long engaged in repressive activities targeting Palestinians and their supporters around the word. The conversation about Zionist repression generally takes a US-centric lens. In an attempt to widen the view, this international panel brings together thinkers and activists from France, Germany, the UK and Australasia to discuss the of Zionist repression in the context of the ongoing colonial genocide being perpetrated by the Zionist settler colonial regime in Palestine.
In its quest to legitimise the settler colonisation of Palestinian land and the establishment of a racial-colonial state upon it, Zionists in Australasia have collaborated with minority right-wing Indigenous organisations, often funded by extremist messianic Christian lobbies to attempt to give legitimacy to Zionist claims of indigeneity and to further repress the Palestinian struggle for liberation by denying Palestinian indigeneity.
In Europe, particularly in Germany, the top-down memorialisation of the Holocaust has been expressed in what Anna Younes refers to as a 'war on antisemitism' that violently targets Muslims, Palestinians, and migrants, relocating antisemitism as the property of 'racialised outsiders', severing it from its European roots.
In France, what the decolonial scholar-activist Houria Bouteldja, has called 'state philosemitism' has conscripted Jews to the role of 'dhimmis of the Republic,' never fully accepted members of the nation, yet doomed to separation from their former conjoined relationship with the colonised 'indigenes'.
In the UK, the so-called 'new antisemitism' of pro-Palestine activism and thought has been linked to the 'countering violent extremism' agenda of the UK government's war on terror with direct effects on, among others, often very young children and young people.
Our panel will delve into these issues and more.
Speakers: Antony Lerman, UK - Based in London, Antony Lerman is a writer focusing mostly on antisemitism, racism, Israel-Palestine, and senses of belonging in Europe. He is author of The Making and Unmaking of a Zionist: A Personal and Political Journey (Pluto 2012) and most recently Whatever Happened to Antisemitism? Redefinition and the Myth of the Collective Jew (Pluto 2022) . He has written for the Guardian, New York Times, Haaretz and many other major periodicals. He is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue in Vienna, Honorary Fellow at the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at Southampton University and Associate Editor of Patterns of Prejudice.
Selim Nadi, France - Selim Nadi holds a PhD in History and is member of the editorial board of QG décolonial. He has written several articles in French, German and English on the European and American workers movement and the issue of racism and colonialism. He has contributed to the collective books After Charlie Hebdo (Zed Books, 2017) and With Stones in Our Hands (Minnesota University Press, 2018). His articles have appeared in Contretemps, Période, Arbeit-Bewegung-Geschichte and Studia Politica.
Anna Younes, (not in) Germany - Anna Younes is a German Palestinian scholar. Her focus rests on what she has coined as the "War on Antisemitism" in her 2015 PhD dissertation, a counterinsurgency war following in the footsteps of a post-WWII new world order, framed by tactics used in the War on Drugs and most prominently the War on Terror. Younes thinks transnationally and transhistorically and has publications in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Her work zooms in on settler colonial theories, psychoanalysis and race critical theories.
Tina Ngata, Aotearoa - Tina Ngata is a Ngati Porou mother of two from the East Coast of Te Ika a Maui. Her work involves advocacy for environmental, Indigenous and human rights. This includes local, national and international initiatives that highlight the role of settler colonialism in issues such as climate change and waste pollution, and promote Indigenous conservation as best practice for a globally sustainable future. her website is https://tinangata.com.
Chaired by Alana Lentin
RSVP: The International Contours of Zionist Repression
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