Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question of Palestine

Jeremy Wildeman, M. Muhannad Ayyash, Jeremy Wildeman, Mark Muhannad Ayyash, M. Muhannad Ayyash, Jeremy Wildeman, Mark Muhannad Ayyash

• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• eBook ISBN:
  9781772127287
• Year: 2024

Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question of Palestine explores Canada-Palestine relations through a settler colonial lens. The authors argue that there are direct parallels between Canada's settler colonial project and its support for the Israeli settler colonial dispossession of Palestinians. Chapters reflect on community politics and activism, migration, orientalism, and critical race theory. Among its unique contributions, the volume provides a fresh look at Canada's foreign policy as informed and shaped by its own history of settler colonialism. The collection also illuminates the breadth and depth of Palestinian life in Canada. Throughout, the chapters are connected by common themes of settler colonial destruction, dispossession, segregation, and otherness, as well as accounts of people challenging those processes in search of a better and fairer world. The book will be of interest to scholars in Indigenous Studies, International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, Canadian Studies, Palestine Studies, and beyond. Contributors: Samer Abdelnour, Nadia Abu-Zahra, Rachad Antonius, Lina Assi, M. Muhannad Ayyash, Peige Desjarlais, Randa Farah, Azeezah Kanji, Maurice Jr. Labelle, Nadia Naser-Najjab, Emily Regan Wills, Mira Sucharov, Jeremy Wildeman. Foreword by Veldon Coburn.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• Introduction
• I Conceptualizing Palestine–Canada Relations through the Settler-Colonial Framework
• II Settler-Colonial Dispossession and Repression
• III Canada’s Policies and the Perpetuation of Settler-Colonial Domination
• IV Restricting the Public Debate on Palestine
• V Palestinian Life and Activism in Canada
• Conclusion: The Struggle for a Fairer Future
• Contributors