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Book launch: 'Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism, and Race in Palestine' Centre for Palestine Studies book launch talk: 'Resisting Erasure' places Israeli settler-colonialism in the broader historical arc of imperialism, race, and fossil capitalism in the Middle East.

If you're in London, join us at SOAS on 17 March for a conversation on Resisting Erasure.
discussing Palestine, settler colonialism, and the political economy shaping the current moment.
Hosted by the SOAS Centre for Palestine Studies.

Register:
www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

07.03.2026 20:45 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
My hand holding a green and orange paperback entitled “Resisting Erasure:
Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine”
by Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox and Rafeef Ziadah

My hand holding a green and orange paperback entitled “Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine” by Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox and Rafeef Ziadah

Finally got my hands on a copy of @rafeefz.bsky.social, @pashukanist.bsky.social and Adam Hanieh’s latest

30.08.2025 18:19 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Epic article on Palestine by @rafeefz.bsky.social just published by @devandchg.bsky.social based on her keynote at the recent AHE conference.

"Development as Erasure: Palestine, Genocide and ‘Reconstruction’"

A must read!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

05.09.2025 13:22 👍 43 🔁 21 💬 0 📌 1
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Still beaming from teaching with this today - it’s incredible to witness the ease with which students make sense of complex theory when it comes to applying it to the most urgent contexts. Thanks for writing it @pashukanist.bsky.social @rafeefz.bsky.social and Adam!

23.09.2025 18:53 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Hardwiring Normalization—Infrastructures, Extraction and Gaza’s Future In the summer of 2025, a 38-page blueprint circulating inside the Trump administration was leaked to the press: the Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation (GREAT) Trust. At fir...

Rafeef Ziadah writes on “Hardwiring Normalization—Infrastructures, Extraction and Gaza’s Future”.

@rafeefz.bsky.social
www.merip.org/2025/10/hard...

31.10.2025 08:57 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Hardwiring Normalization—Infrastructures, Extraction and Gaza’s Future In the summer of 2025, a 38-page blueprint circulating inside the Trump administration was leaked to the press: the Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation (GREAT) Trust. At fir...

Hardwiring Normalization—Infrastructures, Extraction and Gaza’s Future www.merip.org/2025/10/hard...

A must-read from the new issue of @merip.bsky.social by @rafeefz.bsky.social

29.10.2025 13:41 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Laleh Khalili talks to Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox and Rafeef Ziadeh about Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine In the third instalment of The PalFest Podcast we are excited to bring you Laleh Khalili, the esteemed professor and writer in conversation with the authors of Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism ...

Podcast (from @palfest.bsky.social) featuring @lalehkhalili.bsky.social interviewing Adam Hanieh, @rafeefz.bsky.social and me ou our @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet Resisting Erasure.

Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation.

www.podbean.com/media/share/...

10.11.2025 13:58 👍 31 🔁 23 💬 0 📌 0
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Community picket lines and social movement unionism on the U.S. docks, 2014–2021: Organizing lessons from the Block the Boat campaign for Palestine - Katy Fox-Hodess, Rafeef Ziadah, 2025 This paper examines community-initiated picket lines in solidarity with Palestine at the ports of Oakland, Long Beach, Seattle, and Port Elizabeth in 2014 and 2...

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Katy Fox-Hodess and @rafeefz.bsky.social writing on the Block the Boat Campaign for Critical Sociology.

08.12.2025 22:03 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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FORUM 2025: Development and Change: Vol 56, No 4-5 Click on the title to browse this issue

Stellar line up in our latest forum issue of @devandchg.bsky.social just released (although some articles were already on early view).
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14677660...

1st, lead focus article by @rafeefz.bsky.social on development as erasure in #Palestine & #genocide in #Gaza

13.12.2025 19:23 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Excerpt from Resisting Erasure, it reads:

Moreover, when solidarity with Palestine is framed as divisive or ‘too political’, what is really being argued is that the lives and struggles of racialised people outside the West do not belong at the centre of political and labour movements. This attitude treats the concerns of certain workers – those who are predominantly white or in the Global North – as the ‘real’ working-class issues, while marginalising those of others. Bread-and-butter racism is not just about what is opposed but also about
what is excluded. It is itself a racialising logic.

Excerpt from Resisting Erasure, it reads: Moreover, when solidarity with Palestine is framed as divisive or ‘too political’, what is really being argued is that the lives and struggles of racialised people outside the West do not belong at the centre of political and labour movements. This attitude treats the concerns of certain workers – those who are predominantly white or in the Global North – as the ‘real’ working-class issues, while marginalising those of others. Bread-and-butter racism is not just about what is opposed but also about what is excluded. It is itself a racialising logic.

Oh, talking about Palestine is too fucking 'sectarian' is it? Why should Gaza be an issue in Gorton and Denton?

To quote myself, Adam Hanieh and @rafeefz.bsky.social:

27.02.2026 15:26 👍 30 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 3
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Resisting Erasure Why has Palestine become a defining fault line of contemporary politics?Challenging mainstream narratives that reduce Palestine to ancient hatreds, humanitarian tragedy, or legal abstractions, Resisti...

For those asking what Palestine reveals about the world - and what it demands of us - this book is one small intervention in a much larger fight.
We hope you’ll read it, share it, and organise with it. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

27.08.2025 11:34 👍 22 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0
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Resisting Erasure Why has Palestine become a defining fault line of contemporary politics?Challenging mainstream narratives that reduce Palestine to ancient hatreds, humanitarian tragedy, or legal abstractions, Resisti...

Why is Palestine a defining fault line of 21st‑century politics? Resisting Erasure places Israeli settler‑colonialism within imperialism, race, and fossil capitalism—not just humanitarian / legal narratives. Officially out & available in paperback & ebook www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

27.08.2025 11:31 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
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This is an absolutely indispensable read that provides a sharp, comprehensive materialist analysis of Palestinian oppression. Get it, read it, discuss it with comrades, use it to inform your movement’s means and ends. @pashukanist.bsky.social @rafeefz.bsky.social

24.07.2025 08:18 👍 39 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 1
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Resisting Erasure w/ Adam Hanieh, Rafeef Ziadah and Robert Knox Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 08/20/2025 · 1h 19m

📢🇵🇸NEW EPISODE 📢🇵🇸 - @rafeefz.bsky.social, @pashukanist.bsky.social and Adam Hanieh on their new book, 'Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine':

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

20.08.2025 13:33 👍 14 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 2

This was a great chat I think. Alex on his usual excellent form and @rafeefz.bsky.social and Adam both brilliant as ever.

This is our first pod about the @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet and it's good to start out with some of the best.

20.08.2025 13:47 👍 14 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
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Resisting Erasure Why has Palestine become a defining fault line of contemporary politics?Challenging mainstream narratives that reduce Palestine to ancient hatreds, humanitarian tragedy, or legal abstractions, Resisti...

Today is the offical @versobooks.bsky.social release date of Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine, by Adam Hanieh, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social.

www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

26.08.2025 17:39 👍 38 🔁 21 💬 2 📌 2
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Just landed in London bookshops: Resisting Erasure. A radical critique of Israel's settler-colonial capitalism and empire. by @AdamHanieh @pashukanist.bsky.social and myself. Preorder link live too www.versobooks.com/products/341...

12.07.2025 11:34 👍 24 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
5 copies of the book Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine.

5 copies of the book Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine.

Physical copies of this, written by Adam Hanieh l, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social seem to be appearing on the shelves.

If you can't find a copy it's still available for preorder from Verso - www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

11.07.2025 15:22 👍 70 🔁 30 💬 4 📌 3
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Disruptive Geographies and the War on Gaza: Infrastructure and Global Solidarity This forum explores the geopolitics of infrastructure in the context of Israel’s war on Gaza, situating the current genocide within longer histories of settler colonialism, spatial control, and tra...

New forum in Geopolitics: Disruptive Geographies and the War on Gaza
How is infrastructure weaponised in Israel's settler colonial warfare and how is it being disrupted by transnational solidarity? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

04.06.2025 18:44 👍 14 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
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Disruptive Geographies and the War on Gaza: Infrastructure and Global Solidarity This forum explores the geopolitics of infrastructure in the context of Israel’s war on Gaza, situating the current genocide within longer histories of settler colonialism, spatial control, and tra...

Disruptive Geographies and the War on Gaza: how infrastructure underpins settler colonialism & global complicity in Gaza genocide. New essays by me, Christian Henderson, Omar Jabary Salamanca, Sharri Plonski, Charmaine Chua, Riya Al Sanah & Elia El Khazen www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

05.06.2025 07:48 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Disruptive Geographies and the War on Gaza: Infrastructure and Global Solidarity This forum explores the geopolitics of infrastructure in the context of Israel’s war on Gaza, situating the current genocide within longer histories of settler colonialism, spatial control, and tra...

New forum in Geopolitics: Disruptive Geographies and the War on Gaza
How is infrastructure weaponised in Israel's settler colonial warfare and how is it being disrupted by transnational solidarity? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

04.06.2025 18:44 👍 14 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
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We are honored to invite you to our 5th workshop4sudan with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Robyn Maynard to discuss Leanne’s new book A Theory of Water. Sign up here and please share widely:

chuffed.org/project/work...

23.05.2025 01:50 👍 58 🔁 36 💬 1 📌 4
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77 years of Ongoing Nakba. From Jenin to Jabalia, despite bombs and bulldozers, we are still here. Nakba is not a past event. It is a structure - expanding, brutal.
But the promise of return endures. We remember, and we will return. #Nakba77 #OngoingNakba #Palestine #RightOfReturn #WeWillReturn

15.05.2025 14:42 👍 19 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
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Not every US president gets a free private jet, but the Gulf states have boosted US economic dominance for decades Oil money from the Middle East often goes straight to the US.

'Not every US president gets a free private jet, but the Gulf states have boosted US economic dominance for decades' latest from @AdamHanieh in @theconversation.com theconversation.com/not-every-us...

15.05.2025 14:34 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

These are all open access. If you’re a scholar @rafeefz.bsky.social on unis & values based neutrality couldn’t be clearer, Aseel & @cairsti.bsky.social document the emotional impacts of Gaza in the West Bank & Michael Burawoy gives a comparative analysis of apartheid in South Africa & Palestine

15.05.2025 07:15 👍 9 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Register for Free – Palestine: A Sociological Issue – Zoom In the second of the Sociological Review Foundation’s Conversations series, we put a sociological lens on the most urgent issue...

Today 18:30 BST I’ll be speaking on Palestine: A Sociological Issue alongside Ashjan Ajour & Cairsti Russell, chaired by Yasmin Gunaratnam. We’ll discuss Gaza, genocide, and what sociology can — and cannot — do in the face of settler colonialism. Register: www.tickettailor.com/events/theso...

08.05.2025 15:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The comrades at Workers in Palestine and We Smell Gas have organised a fantastic day school in London for activists and organisers to strategise for energy justice and Palestinian liberation. Events like this are essential for all of us to learn, organise and fight back -- make sure you register 👇

07.05.2025 20:58 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Energy, Extractivism and Empire Tickets - London - OutSavvy **NOTE: Date change due to National Palestine Protest to commemorate 77 years since the Nakba. We encourage those who can to attend the protest. Our event will be the following day. On 18th May 2025...

📢 Join us in London on 18 May for “Energy, Extractivism & Empire” — a political day school to strategise for energy justice and Palestinian liberation.
Register now 👉 www.outsavvy.com/event/26792/...
#FreePalestine #StopArmingIsrael #WorkersInPalestine

07.05.2025 11:45 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Energy, Extractivism and Empire Tickets - London - OutSavvy **NOTE: Date change due to National Palestine Protest to commemorate 77 years since the Nakba. We encourage those who can to attend the protest. Our event will be the following day. On 18th May 2025...

📢 Join us in London on 18 May for “Energy, Extractivism & Empire” — a political day school to strategise for energy justice and Palestinian liberation.
Register now 👉 www.outsavvy.com/event/26792/...
#FreePalestine #StopArmingIsrael #WorkersInPalestine

07.05.2025 11:45 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Energy, Extractivism and Empire Tickets - London - OutSavvy **NOTE: Date change due to National Palestine Protest to commemorate 77 years since the Nakba. We encourage those who can to attend the protest. Our event will be the following day. On 18th May 2025...

On Sunday 18 May, join us for day of workshops + discussion on Energy, Extractivism & Empire.
Bringing together activists, artists + organisers across movements.
🔗 www.outsavvy.com/event/26792/...
🕙 10am–5pm
📍Full programme soon!

06.05.2025 08:40 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1