Palestine: Occupation, Settler Colonialism, and Apartheid
This podcast is the audio version of a panel held at the Center for Ideas and Society at the University of California, Riverside, on Tuesday, February 6, 2024. SWANA Region Radio is grateful to the Center for permission to podcast the panel. This panel, one in a series of panels, discusses a number of questions that offer background to the current Israeli war on Gaza: What has been the impact on the Palestinian people of Gaza, the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem of Israel’s latest war on Gaza? How should we understand the overall context and history behind this war and its horrific toll of civilian lives? Israel has over the years variously been characterized as maintaining an occupation of Palestine, as being a settler colony, and as practicing a regime of apartheid. Its current assault on Gaza has been charged with genocide, though the draconian siege or blockade of Gaza since 2007 has also been described as a slow or creeping genocide. What is the definition of each description of the state of Israel and its actions? On what grounds are each of these descriptors based? How are they related to one another historically and in practice? What difference does it make to the practice of the supporters of Palestinian rights what paradigm is foregrounded?
Speakers
Jess Ghannam (University of California, San Francisco)
Eman Ghanayem (Washington University in St Louis)
Jennifer Mogannam (University of California, Santa Cruz)
The panel was moderated by David Lloyd, Professor of English at UCR, and co-host of SWANA Region Radio.
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