Israel and Palestine in Context Series
These events are intended to provide information to help each of us, as members of the TCNJ community, contextualize the current situation in Israel and Palestine. The goal is to promote a greater understanding by delving into the complexities of the situation. Colleges are places of education, and this event series is meant to educate.
SERIES ORGANIZERS
Dr. Deborah Hutton : dhutton@tcnj.edu
Dr. Zakiya R. Adair : adairz@tcnj.edu
First Event (Fall 2023): Israel and Palestine in Context: A Discussion with TCNJ Faculty
This first event is intended to provide objective and nuanced information to help each of us, as members of the TCNJ community, contextualize the current situation in Israel and Palestine. It is not meant to advocate for one position or another. In keeping with TCNJ’s mission, this panel—the first of a series of events—is intended to provide a forum for education and conversation.
Wed, Nov 15, 4-6 pm, P101 Science Complex
Panelists:
Sarah Chartock, PhD, Political Science and International Studies
Miriam Lowi, PhD, Political Science and International Studies
Mindi McMann, PhD, English and International Studies
Miriam Shakow, PhD, Sociology and Anthropology and International Studies
Moderator:
Zakiya R. Adair, PhD Director International Studies
Sponsored by:
The Division of Inclusive Excellence
The School of Humanities and Social Sciences
The School of Arts and Communication
Second Event (Spring 2024): Feminist Perspectives on Palestine
Wednesday February 28th 12:30 pm in EDU 115
Alma Khasawnih, TCNJ
Besan Jaber, Georgetown University
Heba Jahama, TCNJ
This is the second event in the Israel and Palestine in Context Series
Sponsored by: WGSS Department, HSS Dean’s Office and The Division of Inclusive Excellence
The third event in this series is currently being planned for Fall 2024
More information will be provided soon.
Some Useful Resources for Further Exploration:
Databases / Collections:
- Jadaliyya e-zine: Gaza in Context: A Collaborative Teach-In series
- Scott Long, a human rights activist, has made his entire library on Palestine and Israel publicly available via google drive.
Reading Lists:
- If Not Now Liberation Syllabus. If Not Now is “a movement of American Jews organizing [their] community to end U.S. support for Israel’s apartheid system and demand equality, justice, and a thriving future for all Palestinians and Israelis. This list contains resources for fiction, non-fiction, music, artists, podcasts, and other forms of media and culture.
- Washington University in Saint Louis LibGuide on “Palestine, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict”
Books:
- Charles D. Smith, Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History with Documents, 10th edition (St. Martin’s Press, 2020).
- Dov Waxman, The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford UP. 2019).
- Miriam Lowi, Water and Power: the Politics of a Scarce Resource in the Jordan River Basin (Cambridge University Press, 1995).
Articles:
- Palestine, Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Primer. Joel Beinin & Lisa Hajjar. Middle East Research & Information Project, Feb. 2014.
- We Need a Better Definition of Anti-Semitism, Slate. Shanes and Waxman.
Graphic Novels:
Films:
- The Present (2020). constraints of life on the West Bank. available on vimeo
- Farha (2021). 1948. Available on netflix
- The Chicago Palestinian Film festival has made all of their films available online for free hrough December 31, 2023.
- The new documentary Israelism has various free online screenings. Check the website for dates and registration.
Podcast Episodes:
The Ezra Klein Show:
- “An Intense, Searching Conversation with Amjad Iraqi,” 11/10/23
- “What Israelis Fear the World Does Not Understand,” 11/7/23
- Interview with Amaney Jamal, 11/2/23
NYT “The Daily”
“1948” 11/3/23
Several clips from Democracy Now.Org: The War and Peace Report:
- Interview with veteran Israeli journalist, Amira Hass (https://www.democracynow.org/2023/10/20/israeli_journalist_amira_hass_daughter_of)
- Interview with Israeli Holocaust scholar, Omer Bartov
Jewish-Israeli & Jewish-Palestinian Human Rights organizations:
- Breaking the Silence (Former Israeli Defense Forces Members)
- B’tselem
- Just Vision
- Gush Shalom
- Adalah –The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel
- Academia for Equality
Resources for discussing Anti-Muslim and Anti-Arab Racism
- Edward Said. New York: Pantheon, 1978.
- Richardson, Robbin. “Islamophobia or anti-Muslim racism – or what? – concepts and terms revisited”
- Resource for Teaching & Learning about anti-Muslim Racism in the United States. This source contains helpful definitions and links to writings by scholars like Edward Said and Mahmood Mamdani. It is several pages with resources (academic, media, literary, visual, etc) regarding anti-Muslim racism in the US and throughout the world.
Apartheid Sources
- Ellis, Donald, “Apartheid,” Israel Studies, 24 no. 2, 2019, pp. 63-71
- Greenstein, Ran,“Colonialism, Apartheid and the Native Question: The Case of Israel/Palestine,” Racism after Apartheid: Challenges for Marxism and Anti-Racism, edited by Vishwas Satgar, Wits University Press, Johannesburg, 2019, pp. 75–95.
- Soske, Jon and Sean Jacobs. “Introduction: Apartheid/Hafrada: South Africa, Israel, and the Politics of Comparison.” Apartheid Israel the Politics of an Analogy, edited by Jon Soske and Sean Jacobs. Haymarket Books, Chicago, IL, 2015, pp. 1–12.
- United Nations. International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid, 1974, entered into force 18 July 1976
- United Nations. Rome Statute International Criminal, 17 July 1998, in force 1 July 2002
- Wootliff, Raoul. Final Text of Jewish Nation-State Law, Approved by the Knesset Early On …, Times of Israel , 18 July 2018
Ethnic Cleansing Sources
Genocide Sources
- United Nations, Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 9 December 1948, entered into force 12 January 1951,
- Article on case filed for Gaza (accusing Israel of Genocide) with International Criminal Court
Settler Colonialism Sources
- Murphyao, Amanda and Kelly Black “Unsettling Settler Belonging: (Re)naming and Territory Making in the Pacific Northwest,” American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 45 no. 3, 2015, pp. 315-331.
- Veracini, Lorenzo, “Introduction: Settler Colonialism as a Distinct Mode of Domination,” The Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism, edited by Edward Cavanagh and Lorenzo Veracini, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
- Wolfe, Patrick, Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology: the Politics and Poetics of an Ethnographic Event, Cassell, London, 2019.
Sources on Nationalism
- Gerstle, Gary. 2002. American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
- Hobsbawm, Eric, and Terrence Ranger. 2012. The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge University Press.
- Anderson, Benedict. 1991. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism. Verso.