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Palestinian Popular Resistance: Building the Student Movement
A new generation of Palestinians is marching on the footsteps of previous generations, rising up against Israel's brutal, decades-old system of occupation, settler colonialism and apartheid. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have
joined demonstrations taking place in dozens of cities across historic Palestine and in refugee camps in neighbouring Arab countries.
Palestinians continue to struggle for their fundamental rights of freedom, self-determination, equality, and a right to return. As the resistance on the ground intensifies, university campuses remain central to building on the Palestinian solidarity movement.
The call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) has recently made tremendous gains, in particular on university campuses and academic institutions. Both the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) recently passed BDS resolutions, with an overwhelming majority.
On the evening of January 12th at 7pm, join the University of Toronto Graduate Students Union BDS Ad Hoc Committee, SAIA UofT, along with Noura Erakat and Nada Elia for a panel discussion on what is currently taking place on the ground in Palestine, and what we can do on campuses to support the resistance, and build on the Palestinian resistance movement.
Speakers' Bios:
Nada Elia:
Nada Elia is a diaspora Palestinian, born in Baghdad, Iraq, and raised in Beirut, Lebanon. Nada currently teaches Global and Gender Studies at Antioch University- Seattle, where she coordinates the Global Studies area of concentration. Nada is a member of the Organizing Committee of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, and has spoken around the country about academic boycott as a means to achieve the currently non-existent academic freedom in the US, Israel, and Palestine.
A scholar-activist, Elia is past president of AMEWS, the Association of Middle East Women's Studies, and currently serves on the steering collective of The Critical Ethnic Studies Association. She also serves, or has served, on a number of local grassroots activist organizations. She is a founding member of RAWAN (the Radical Arab Women's Activist Network); a former representative to the United Nations of AWSA (the Arab Women's Solidarity Association); a member of the Defense of Civil Rights in Academia; and a former member of the steering collective of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, where she co-chaired of the Anti-Militarism, and Anti-Occupation taskforce.
Noura Erakat (Via Skype):
Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and activist. As of Fall 2014, she is an Assistant Professor at George Mason University. She has taught international human rights law in the Middle East at Georgetown University since Spring 2009.Noura is a Co-Editor of Jadaliyya, an electronic magazine on the Middle East that combines scholarly expertise and local knowledge. Most recently she served as Legal Counsel for the Domestic Policy Subcommittee of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee in the House of Representatives. Prior to her time on Capitol Hill, Noura received a New Voices Fellowship to work as the national grassroots organizer and legal advocate at the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation where she helped seed BDS campaigns nationally as well as support the cases brought against two former Israeli officials in U.S. federal courts for alleged war crimes. For several years, Noura worked as the Legal Advocacy Coordinator for the Badil Center for Refugee and Residency Rights. In that capacity, she drafted their submissions to the human rights treaty bodies and lobbied the US Congress as well as diplomatic missions at the United Nations on their behalf. Prior to attending law school, she helped launch the divestment campaign along with the Students for Justice in Palestine at UC Berkeley in 2001.
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