Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question of Palestine

Edited by Jeremy Wildeman & Mark Muhannad Ayyash
Categories: Regional & Cultural Studies, Canadian Studies, Social Sciences, Sociology, Indigenous Studies, Law & Legal Studies, Law & Society, Racism & Discrimination, Social Movements & Activism, Political Science, Canadian Political Science
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Paperback : 9781772126853, 368 pages, October 2023
Ebook (EPUB) : 9781772127287, 368 pages, November 2023
Ebook (PDF) : 9781772127294, 368 pages, November 2023

Table of contents

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Foreword
Veldon Coburn

Introduction
Mark Muhannad Ayyash & Jeremy Wildeman

Part I: Conceptualizing Palestine-Canada Relations through the Settler Colonial Framework

Chapter 1: Hyphenation and Conciliation in the Settler Colony
Mark Muhannad Ayyash

Chapter 2: A Shared Settler Colonialism
Jeremy Wildeman

Part II: Settler Colonial Dispossession and Repression

Chapter 3: Canada and the Palestinian refugees: Humanitarian License to Dispossess?
Randa Farah & Peige Desjarlais

Chapter 4: Enforcing the Settler Contract: Repression of Palestine Solidarity in Canadian Colonial Multiculturalism
Azeezah Kanji

Part III: Canada’s Policies and the Perpetuation of Settler Colonial Domination

Chapter 5: Canada’s Role in the People-to-People Programme: A Critical Assessment
Nadia Naser-Najjab

Chapter 6: Aid for Peace Revisited: A New Paradigm for Understanding Conflict and Development
Nadia Abu-Zahra

Part IV: Restricting the Public Debate on Palestine

Chapter 7: Palestinian Images, Israeli Narratives: Radio-Canada Coverage of the 2014 War on Gaza
Rachad Antonius

Chapter 8: Canada’s Israel Lobby and the Palestinians
Mira Sucharov

Part V: Palestinian Life and Activism in Canada

Chapter 9: Exclusion and Exile: The Identity of Working-class Palestinians in Canada
Lina Assi & Samer Abdelnour

Chapter 10: Palestinian Organizations in Ottawa: Understanding Communities in Practice
Emily Regan Wills

Chapter 11: Re-Presenting Palestine: Sami Hadawi and the Palestinian Revolution in Canada
Maurice Jr. Labelle

Conclusion: The Struggle for a Fairer Future
Jeremy Wildeman

Description

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 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, and the accounts of people challenging those processes in search of a better and fairer world. This groundbreaking collection 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, Mark 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.