Category Archives: Staying-With Palestine. Making and Remaking Postcolonial Worlds
Laura Adwan: Commentary: On fragmentation and decolonization. The demise of a collective liberation dream
Before, times like these have come before Times when we witnessed hurricanes that never stopped uprooting trees We thought that we had learned how to travel the road to the gods’ gate How to carry the burden and rise up again after the flood How to go, again If days come when we see hurricanes that […]
Omid Mehrgan: Palestine the Wound: A Report on the Iranian Reception of the Cause
A Postscript Note: I finished writing this piece prior to the Israeli-US attacks on Iranian cities and nuclear facilities, which killed over a thousand people. There is, therefore, no trace of that consequential war in the piece. Another event also took place between the time of writing this and the onset of that war: the […]
Aaron F. Eldridge: The Palestinian Cause Contra Sectarian Thinking
“History is what hurts,” stated Frederic Jameson; “it is what refuses desire and sets inexorable limits to individual as well as collective praxis” (1982, 102). And the situation today in Lebanon is a painful one, indeed. For many, the settler-colonial Zionist efforts to bring about the total obliteration of Palestine and the invasion and bombing […]
Nico Putz: On Anti-Deutsche and Neo-Imperial War
This forum has shed light on vastly different but interrelated contexts of Palestine solidarity. The essays draw attention to the interplay of shifting solidarities with Palestine and the amorphous formation of “the (political) left” across geographical and temporal contexts. Germany, although not belonging to the postcolonial and neocolonial contexts as in the other essays, is […]
Olivia C. Harrison: Who’s Afraid of Palestine Solidarity?
One question has been haunting me since the current wave of repression of pro-Palestinian speech began in the wake of the October 7 attacks and the genocidal campaign-disguised-as-reprisal that followed: who’s afraid of Palestine solidarity? This is an urgent question on US, French, and German campuses today, but its purview is not limited to the […]
Arpan Roy: Introduction: Staying-With Palestine. Making and Remaking Postcolonial Worlds
Extrajudicial arrest, termination from employment, suspension of university enrollment, being declared persona non-grata (Karl 2025), police violence at demonstrations, harassment at airports, online doxxing, and, in the case of six-year old Wadea al-Fayoume, a martyrdom in a strange land—these are some of the ways in which solidarity with Palestine has, since October 2023, been rebuked […]