Palestine Censored: Repression of Palestinian advocacy and solidarity in so-called Canada

Join Nadia Abu-Zahra, Yara Jamal, Ajay Parasram, Peter Ives and Sean Tucker for a discussion of the ongoing and unprecedented repression in of the Palestinian solidarity movement in Canada.

To register please contact info@fernpub.ca

About the speakers: 

Yara Jamal is a Palestinian author and award-winning journalist. She is the founder of Free Palestine Halifax, a grassroots organization in Atlantic Canada, dedicated to advocating for Palestinian self determination, sovereignty and the right to return.

Nadia Abu-Zahra is an Associate Professor and Joint Chair in Women’s Studies at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University, and a member of the University of Ottawa’s Human Rights Research and Education Centre, Centre for Research on Educational and Community Services, and Centre for International Policy Studies.

Sean Tucker is a professor in the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Regina. He teaches and researches leadership and occupational health and safety. 

Peter Ives is professor of political science at the University of Winnipeg. He is the author of Gramsci’s Politics of Language and Language and Hegemony in Gramsci, and co-editor of Gramsci, Language and Translation and Language Policy and Political Theory. He has published in Rethinking Marxism, Political Studies, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy and Language Policy. He researches and writes on the politics of “global English” and bridging the disciplines of language policy and political theory. He has contributed articles to The Conversation on free speech and academic freedom, was on the editorial board of Rethinking Marxism for a decade and was on the editorial collective of Arbeiter Ring Press for many years.   

Ajay Parasram is a multigenerational transnational byproduct of the British empire, with roots in South Asia, the Caribbean and the settler cities of Halifax, Ottawa and Vancouver. He is an associate professor in the Departments of International Development Studies, History and Political Science at Dalhousie University in Kjipuktuk (Halifax), unceded Mi’kma’ki. His research interests surround the colonial present, or the many ways through which strings of historical colonial entanglements continue to tighten the limit of political action today, and how those strings might be undone.