Settler Colonial Land Grabs from San Diego to Palestine
“Settler Colonial Land Grabs” is a teach-in on how the United States, Israel, private developers, and even nonprofits displace (or “evict”) people from Palestine to San Diego. Participants can learn about the violent economic and political tools used to take indigenous people and tenants’ homes from them, as well as how to support the movements resisting displacement.
Resisting Reaganism: Global and Local Solidarities
This lecture and Q&A will be co-hosted by UCSD professors Dr. Daniel Widener, Dr. Jody Blanco, and Dr. Ivan Evans who will be discussing the 1980’s solidarity movement in South Africa, Central America, Northern Ireland, the Philippines Palestine, and Lebanon. As covered in “Los Angeles Intifada”, the recommended reading for this event, Kahanism and the terrorist group, the Jewish Defense League, made their way into Los Angeles in 1972 when a pipe bomb was detonated outside the Lebanese consulate on Hollywood Boulevard. Anti-Arab violence continued throughout the 1970s sparking mass resistance in the 1980s.
Why are Palestinian Lives so Devalued?
This guest lecture and discussion with Professor Farid Abdel-Nour, Professor of Political Science at SDSU, seeks to understand why Palestinian lives are so devalued. After more than 76 years of settler colonial violence by the Israeli state and eight months into the US-backed genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza, we grapple with the complicity of our government and many Jewish institutions in the dehumanization of Palestinian lives.
Jewish Self-Determination Beyond Zionism: Lessons from Hannah Arendt and Other Pariahs
This lecture with Jonathan Graubart, professors of Political Science at San Diego State University presents histories of Jewish dissent to Zionism and how Jews and Jewish communities are resisting Zionism in the present day.