Joint Statement, 19 May 2021
The AAS Executive Committee and the ANSA Executive and Committee stands with people in Palestine and Israel who are suffering from state-sanctioned violence. As anthropologists concerned about the devastating intergenerational effects of settler colonialism in Australia and around the world, we condemn ongoing efforts to dispossess Palestinians of their lands, homes, and livelihoods.
The aftermath of an Israeli airstrike, Gaza Strip, 14 May. Photograph: Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images
Resources
Below is a list of anthropologically informed commentary and publications recommended by AAS members:
- ‘The right to defend oneself’: a short history of an utterance with a long history, Ghassan Hage, Open Democracy
- Race Traitor #16, Special Issue on Palestine
- An attempt to explain why explosions are again filling the skies over Israel and Gaza, Emily Clark, ABC News
- Defending Sheikh Jarrah from within the Australian Settler Colony, Tasnim Mahmoud Sammak and Hassan Abdi, The Institute of Postcolonial Studies
- B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (website)
- Once this violence in Israel and Gaza ends, there can be no return to ‘normal’, Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian
- Palestinian politics under occupation (episode of Rear Vision with Annabelle Quince, Keri Phillips)
- An Army Like No Other: How the Israel Defense Force Made a Nation, Haim Bresheeth-Zabner (free book download)
- The Delusions Driving Israeli Thinking Have Been Exposed as Never Before, David Shulman, The Wire
- +972 Magazine: Independent Journalism from Israel-Palestine (English language website)
- “What the Anniversary of the Nakba Means to Palestinians”, video featuring anthropologist Nadia Abu El-Haj, Center for Palestine Studies, Columbia University
- A Day in the Life of Abed Salama, a video about man's quest to find his son within the labyrinth of Israeli rule and corresponding article by Nathan Thrall in the New York Review
- Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, edited by Sumaya Awad and Brian Bean (free book download)
This analysis of the historical and political context of the violence in Palestine/Israel and expression of support for the people of Palestine is open for signatures from Australian anthropologists and other concerned scholars
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