Pro-Palestinian and Anti-War Protest on Campus — Interventions

Earlier this year, we commissioned a series of essays contributing to the scholarly and political debate about the ongoing Palestinian genocide. While there was/is plenty of information available in mainstream and independent media platforms, we asked our authors to provide radical geographical analyses and speak to issues such as imperialism, militarization, settler colonialism, racism, gender, transnational Left solidarities, and the conflation of any critique of Zionism with anti-Semitism.

We have now invited a new set of authors to engage with such concepts in the context of police and institutionalized violence against pro-Palestinian and anti-war protesters on university campuses in (and beyond) North America. Authors were invited based on their expertise and ongoing participation in critical discussions, and we would like to thank them, again, for their important contributions.

The Antipode Editorial Collective, 5 August 2024 (updated 24 October 2024)

From a Fence…To the Barricades! Inverting Infrastructure at Tkaronto’s People’s Circle for Palestine” by Majd Al-Shihabi and Deb Cowen (University of Toronto)

Explaining the Terror: Interpreting Violence Against Peaceful Student Protesters in the United States in Spring 2024” by Nancy Ettlinger (Ohio State University)

Fieldnotes from the Palestine Solidarity Encampment: Affect, Resisting Apathy, and What (Else) Can Be Learned from The Matrix” by Sanan Moradi (University of Oregon)

Geographies of Hope for Palestinian Liberation” by Anonymous Writer

What Kind of Place is Freedom?” by Danielle Purifoy (UNC Chapel Hill)

Featured images, left to right: The People’s Circle for Palestine, June 2024, and on the day of “decamping”, July 2024 (photos by Majd Al-Shihabi); The Administration Building, Johnson Hall, renamed Alareer Hall by pro-Palestine students at the Palestine Solidarity Encampment, University of Oregon, May 2024 (photo by Sanan Moradi); The People’s Circle for Palestine, University of Toronto, June 2024 (photo by Deb Cowen); Majd Al-Shihabi in conversation with Glen Coulthard at the People’s Circle for Palestine, June 2024 (photo by Deb Cowen)