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.
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- Edmonton, CA
Table of Contents
- Front cover 1
- Title page 4
- Copyright page 5
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgements 8
- Foreword / Coburn 10
- Introduction / Ayyash & Wildeman 14
- I Conceptualizing Palestine-Canada Relations Through the Settler-Colonial Framework 30
- 1 Hyphenation and Conciliation in the Settler Colony / Ayyash 32
- 2 A Shared Settler Colonialism / Wildeman 46
- II Settler-Colonial Dispossession and Repression 84
- 3 Canada and the Palestinian Refugees / Farah & Desjarlais 86
- 4 Enforcing the Settler Contract / Kanji 128
- III Canada’s Policies and the Perpetuation of Settler-Colonial Domination 154
- 5 Canada’s Role in the People-to-People Programme / Naser-Nijab 156
- 6 Aid for Peace Revisited / Abu-Zahra 180
- IV Restricting the Public Debate on Palestine 204
- 7 Palestinian Images, Israeli Narratives / Antonius 206
- 8 Canada’s Israel Lobby and the Palestinians / Sucharov 236
- V Palestinian Life and Activism in Canada 258
- 9 Exclusion and Exile / Assi & Abdelnour 260
- 10 Palestinian Organizations in Ottawa / Wills 288
- 11 Re-Presenting Palestine / Labelle 308
- Conclusion / Wildeman 336
- Contributors 350
