| Author(s) | Emily Regan Wills; Jeremy Wildemen; Michael Bueckert; Nadia Abu-Zahra |
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Introduction
From: Advocating for Palestine in Canada
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In the Introduction, the authors explain how the book is about those who advocate for Palestine in Canada and what brought them to Palestinian advocacy, as well as how their advocacy is contingent on challenging the larger far-reaching systems of injustice and structural violence in not only Palestine and Israel but Canada as well. The chapter explores the connections between the anti-colonial struggle between Turtle Island/Canada and Palestine/Israel, outlines a brief history of settler colonialism and the colonization of Canada and the partition of Palestine, and describes the history of advocacy for Palestine in Canada since the 1960’s.
Contributors
Nadia Abu-Zahra
Nadia Abu-Zahra, DPhil (Oxon), is an associate professor at the University of Ottawa and holds the Joint Chair in Women’s Studies at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University. She is co-author of Unfree in Palestine: Registration, Documentation and Movement Restriction. She co-facilitates with Emily Regan Wills the Community Mobilization in Crisis project, co-creating open educational resources with community mobilizers around the world.Emily Regan Wills
Emily Regan Wills, PhD (The New School), is an associate professor of comparative and American politics in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. Her roots are in anti-war, feminist and queer liberation movements. She is the author of Arab New York: Politics and Community in the Everyday Lives of Arab Americans (nyu Press 2019).Jeremy Wildemen
Jeremy Wildeman, PhD (Exeter), is a fellow at the Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa. He is co-editor of the Special Issue Canadian Foreign Policy Journal What Lies Ahead:Michael Bueckert
Canada’s Engagement with the Middle East Peace Process and the Palestinians (2021). His doctoral research at the University of Exeter assessed the illiberal and colonial nature of contemporary Canadian foreign aid in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. In the 2000s, he cofounded and built a Palestinian-led non-governmental organization dedicated to youth and community development, called Project Hope, in the West Bank city of Nablus.
