Anti-Jewish and Anti-Muslim Racisms and the Question of Palestine/IsraelQuestion

This conference seeks to explore the multiple, complex and inter-related ways that anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim racisms are being constructed in relation to the question of Palestine/Israel. In particular it seeks to examine how the histories of Zionist settlement, anti-colonial and nation-building struggles and 20th century warfare in the Middle East region are being transformed in the current historical conjuncture. Of particular importance in this context will be ideological and political alliances that have emerged locally, regionally and globally around notions such as the ‘New Antisemitism’, and ‘Islamophobia’ and how these relate to racialised discourses against Jews and Muslims. Drawing on the expertise of scholars and activists from a variety of backgrounds, the aim of the conference will be to serve as a first step for building a transversal anti-racist political vision that will aim to destabilize some of the oppositional dichotomies which are currently hegemonic in discourses around Jews, Muslims and Middle East politics.

This event is organised by the University of East London’s Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging, the Runnymede Trust, the LSE Centre for the Study of Human Rights and SOAS’s Centre for Palestine Studies, London Middle East Institute.

This event is being held at: SOAS, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, WC1H 0XG, London

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