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The Israel/Palestine Escalation: The Current Chapter of a Long History

Contending Modernities
October 16, 2023February 1, 2024

This conflict did not begin on Saturday, October 7. Addressing root causes is key to de-escalate violence and redress politically the aspirations of Palestinians for freedom and historical justice and the Israeli desire for safety.

“Religious Freedoms,” Apocalyptic Thinking, and Political Violence

Series: Symposium on The Politics of Persecution

Atalia Omer
August 30, 2023February 1, 2024

Palestinian Christians are under attack, but they are targeted not because of their Christianity, but rather because of their Palestinian identity.

Zionism and the Politics of Domination: On Protest, Liberty, and the Status Quo

Series: Symposium on Black Dignity

Shaul Magid
June 28, 2023

There is no dignity granted to a population living under domination; and domination remains the state policy in Israel.

The Search for Justice, Liberation, and Humanity in the Life and Work of Desmond Tutu

Series: Transnational Solidarity and the Legacy of Tutu

Hilary Rantisi
June 26, 2023February 1, 2024

Tutu’s message was simple: God created us for freedom. This is a freedom that does not belong to one group of people more than another.

Desmond Tutu: A Much-Loved, Deeply Disturbed, and Offensive Prophet

Series: Transnational Solidarity and the Legacy of Tutu

Farid Esack
June 8, 2023February 1, 2024

Tutu’s theology was simple: embrace the logic and the dreams of the margins.

A Jewish Perspective on Desmond Tutu’s Prophetic Dream for Peace and Justice in Israel/Palestine

Series: Transnational Solidarity and the Legacy of Tutu

Rebecca T. Aplert
May 31, 2023January 27, 2024

This is the starting point of Tutu’s challenge: Israel must recognize the God that is being worshipped in the land today is the God of conquest and not the God of liberation, and that they are not one in the same.

Religion and Broken Solidarities: A Conversation on Political Movements, the Literary Imagination, and Hope

Joshua S. Lupo
May 9, 2023February 1, 2024

What is revealed in these conversations is that challenging the structures that marginalize the most vulnerable in our society requires an intersectional analysis.

The Injured Body: Palestine, Mizrahi Jews, and the Imperial Politics of Color

Mara Ahmed and Shirly Bahar
March 24, 2023January 25, 2024

The documentary performances powerfully politicize pain by shaping it as a relational event that took place between the performing person and the state, and is lingering in the person’s body and ways of speaking, expressing, and representing themselves to this day.

Sacralizing State Politics: Why Does it Matter?

Series: When Politics are Sacralized Symposium

Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
November 14, 2022January 19, 2024

When Politics are Sacralized seeks to comparatively reveal racially based nationalist-religious claims, along with the social, cultural, and political articulations of those claims and their significance.