The Academic Question of Palestine

Bibliographic Data

ID12980221
AuthorsWalaa Alqaisiya (0000-0003-1472-5187, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, University of Venice, Venice, Italy, corresponding author), Nicola Perugini (0000-0002-5216-2170, University of Edinburgh)
Year2024
Volume33
Issue3
Pages299-311
Publication date2024-07-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMiddle East Critique (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1943-6149 • E-ISSN: 1943-6157
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/19436149.2024.2384009
OpenAlexW4401710973
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited2

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

Ancient history · Palestine · Political science · Sociology · African history and culture analysis · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Middle East Politics and Society