Global flashpoints, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Chinese actions in Xinjiang, share a common background: a previous history of invasion and occupation. The northwestern region of ...
On this week of Thanksgiving, I want to share the Center for Rural Livelihoods’ statement on settler colonialism, which includes us insisting on a lasting ceasefire and a free Palestine. Many groups ...
What makes the theory of settler colonialism so potent is its hierarchical structure. One group of people moves to a place for the purpose of conquering the land, with the intent to displace the ...
Sarah Montoya is a Mexican-American settler on Tonvga and Payaya lands and a PhD candidate in UCLA’s Gender Studies Department. Her dissertation, "Electronic Empires and Digital Domains", examines ...
There's something about November that never fails to transport me back to my days in elementary school. I remember the excitement boiling up in my stomach in anticipation of that ambiguous period ...
As protests against Israel spread across college campuses in the fall and spring, the same curious phrase kept turning up again and again. Settler colonialism, a term that had languished in academic ...
COVID denialism in the US is problematic to say the least. The nation is facing a public health crisis that’s far worse than it needs to be, as shown by the examples of countless other nations around ...
Like many Jews after the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, Adam Kirsch was stunned by the number of activists and intellectuals who celebrated the deadliest single day for Jews since the Holocaust. “People ...
Earlier this month, the academic journal People and Nature published a research article titled, “Words are Monuments: Patterns in US national park place names perpetuate settler colonial mythologies ...
Over the years tons of ink have been expended on the seemingly interminable issue of the Palestinians and Israel. The wonderful Educational Bookshop in East Jerusalem is filled from floor to ceiling ...
It is unfortunate that instead of having a serious debate about the causes of the war, the issue has been co-opted by partisans on the left and the right to pursue their long-standing conflict over ...