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Burning Human Rights Books, Part II: Genocide, Occupation, and Decolonization

Series: The Failure of Human Rights and International Law
Lena Salaymeh
March 19, 2026

What do human rights mean if a state can drop the equivalent of multiple atomic bombs and still claim that the resulting mass civilian deaths were unintentional?

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Burning Human Rights Books, Part I: Modern International Law, War, and Colonialism

Lena Salaymeh
March 17, 2026March 19, 2026

Law does not exist in legal sources, but in the interpretation and application of legal sources.

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Weaponizing Indigeneity: Zionist Media Discourse on Possessing Palestine

Series: Weaponizing Religion: Critical Perspectives on Palestine/Israel
Sabina Ali
January 29, 2026January 29, 2026

Indigenous peoples articulate Land as part of an interconnected web of relations and responsibilities, a mode of relating that cannot be reconciled with the structural violence of modern nation-states.

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(Settler) Colonial Logics Beyond Europe

Series: Symposium on Colonizing Kashmir
Hafsa Kanjwal
April 15, 2025April 15, 2025

Values that are seen as having a “positive” valence, such as state-building, democracy, development, and secularism are often weapons of colonial occupation.

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Restricting Free Speech for Palestine: Nine Responses to Prof. Claire Finkelstein’s Call

Ahmed Bouzid
January 27, 2024February 12, 2024

Calls for limits to free speech advocated by people like Claire O. Finkelstein are part of a wider ideological project in support of an Israeli propaganda war (Ebrahim Moosa).

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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.

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“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.

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Theology and the Environmental Humanities

Series: Theories of Land
Evan Berry
August 17, 2023January 25, 2024

The concepts that ground contemporary scholarly conversations about the cultural roots of the climate crisis are saturated with theological questions.

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Religious Multiplicity in the Environmental Humanities Classroom: A Letter to My Students

Series: Theories of Land
Amanda Baugh
August 10, 2023January 25, 2024

A major goal of this class is to help us identify and challenge the unmarked assumptions that have led to such limited notions of who can be an environmentalist and what can count as environmentalism.

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Decolonizing the Tabernacle

Series: Theories of Land
Elisha Chi
August 2, 2023January 27, 2024

What does it mean for Jesus to be materially and physically supported by land soaked in the blood of enslavement and genocide?

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