2024/02/26 by Heraclitos Muhire · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies #Middle East Politics and Society #Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts
paper · pdf · doi:10.1332/26352338y2024d000000010
openalex publication_date 2024/02/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
The latest assault on Palestine by the Israeli occupation, beginning in early October 2023, marked another instance of colonial violence supported by the West. Through material, ideological and political support, Western political figures, media, intellectuals and civil society organisations have facilitated the decimation of Palestinian society, historically and currently. This intervention argues that Western intellectuals have an important task; to break with this history and collectively engage in crucial solidarity with the Palestinian cause of liberation from Israeli colonial occupation. By connecting and engaging with Palestinian movements and organisations at the forefront of the struggle, Western intellectuals should demand an immediate and permanent ceasefire, call for boycotting, divesting from Israeli universities and Western institutions complicit in the occupation, recognise the illegitimacy of Israeli settler colonialism, and build long-lasting relationships with Palestinian counterpart institutions.