Justice is indivisible: Palestine as a feminist issue

The essay, then, will start with an overview of the challenges diaspora Palestinian activists, and our allies, have faced as we engaged with other feminists and “progressives” in the Global North—groups and individuals who we thought would have appreciated the intersections with our circumstances, but who nevertheless failed to recognize the plight of the Palestinians as a gross injustice and a violation of a people’s human rights. It then traces the advances we have made, amongst Global North and women-of-color feminisms, as activists and organizers finallygrasp that the struggle for Palestinian self-determination is a struggle for Indigenous rights, and that feminist praxis entails engaging in solidarity with decolonial struggle.Finally, it ends with a call for Palestinians to continue the alliances we have forged or reinforced in recent years, so that we can in turn contribute to the struggles of other criminalized communities, once (not if) we achieve our goal of self-determination and Indigenous sovereignty.

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Author(s): Nada Elia
Date Published: 2017
Author(s) Region of Origin: Asia
Language: English

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