PALESTINE IN CONTEXT Project

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      • Colonial Narratives (Part 1) (Session 8)
      • Colonial Narratives (Part 2) (Session 12)
      • Palestine, Zionism, and the Nakba (Session 18)
      • Colonial Zionism and Shattering an Age of Coexistence (Session 19)
      • Weaponizing Antisemitism (Session 27)
      • Gaza War Chronicles: From October 7 to the Hague (Part 1) (Session 16)
    • Curated Topical/Thematic Teaching Modules >
      • Gaza in History (Session 2)
      • Gaza in Geography (Session 4)
      • Conditional Citizens (Pt 2) Present-Absent: '48 Palestinians (Session 23)
      • The Unending War on the Children of Gaza (Session 7)
      • Genocide in Gaza (Session 15)
      • Mainstream Media Coverage of the War on Gaza (Session 21)
      • Gaza War Chronicles: From October 7 to the Hague (Part 2) (Session 17)
      • Deconstructing Western Media Narratives (Session 29)
      • Mortality Estimation in Gaza (Session 31)
    • Composite Teaching Modules >
      • 01 - Introduction/Background Module
      • 02 - Weaponizing Anti-Semitism Module
      • 03 - International Law Module
      • 04 - The Nakba
      • 05 - Zionism
      • 06 - Media Module
  • What Have We Learned?
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    • Teaching Palestine Today
    • Gaza Conversations
    • Questioning the State
    • Gaza on My Mind
    • In Defense of Academic Freedom
    • Students Rising
    • ICJ Podcasts
    • Connections Podcast w/ Mouin Rabbani
  • Documentary & Pedagogy
    • Research and Resources >
      • Blog
      • Endorsements and Media
      • Team
      • Teaching Gaza in Context >
        • Settler Colonialism
        • History of Israel-Palestine
        • Situating Gaza
        • Structural Violence
      • Press Release
      • Script of Film
      • JadMag
    • About
    • Credits
  • About / Contact
  • Solidarity Statements

About.

A tutorial on how to use Gaza in Context. 

Gaza in Context is a project of the Arab Studies Institute (ASI)

 In practice, Israel has adopted intermittent, counterinsurgency campaigns aimed at diminishing the capacity of the captive Palestinian population to militarily resist Israel’s structural violence. Conceptually, it has set Gaza apart from the rest of the Palestinian-Israel conflict so that there is no continuity between Israel’s wars waged upon it and its treatment of Palestinians throughout Israel as well as the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
 
Together, the practice of systematic war and the framework of unique distinction have set the Gaza Strip apart from the question of Palestine and transformed it into a national security question. By emphasizing the role of Hamas and diminishing the question of Palestine, Israel has collapsed conditions in Gaza with asymmetric conflicts, or what has come to be known as the “global war on terror,” thus eliding the consequential distinctions between Palestinians and other non-state actors. This pedagogical project is an attempt to re-frame the issue in order to place greater emphasis on the broader question of Palestine and to explain Israel’s policy towards the Gaza Strip in that context. This effort is not finite, it is part of a larger research project on Palestine headed by the Forum on Arab and Muslim Affairs at the Arab Studies Institute. 

Operation Protective Edge, and any past or future Israeli onslaughts, should be read within this framework in order to highlight the abnormality of the Palestinian condition and to realize a viable and just alternative.

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Who We Are.

We are a group of academics, activists, and artists seeking to shift the narrative around the Gaza Strip and Palestine, in general. This is an Arab Studies Institute project and is one component of its Palestine Project housed by the Forum on Muslim and Arab Affairs. 

Who We Want to Reach.

As a pedagogical project we hope that educators, in high school and college classrooms, as well as organizers and activists use these resources to interrogate the conditions in Gaza and use them as a point of departure for understanding the question of Palestine.   

The History of the Project.

The idea for Gaza in Context emerged during the summer of 2014 when Israel launched its most devastating offensive on the besieged Palestinian population of the Gaza Strip to date. Despite the immense destruction wrought upon a captive population Israel successfully claimed victimhood in western media as it launched 6,000 airstrikes and 50,000 artillery shells in an air and ground offensive that lasted for 51-days. The course of the media cycle made evident the need for an assertive framework to explain Israel’s systematic wars. Specifically, to counter its defensive claims and situate its aggression within a broader settler-colonial project in Palestine. 


Co-Organizers: Arab Studies Institute, Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, George Mason University’s Middle East and Islamic Studies Program, Rutgers Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Birzeit University Museum, Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Brown University’s Center for Middle East Studies, University of Chicago’s Center for Contemporary Theory, Brown University’s New Directions in Palestinian Studies, Georgetown University’s Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies, Georgetown University-Qatar, American University of Cairo’s Alternative Policy Studies, Middle East Studies Association’s Global Academy, University of Chicago’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, CUNY’s Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center, University of Illinois Chicago’s Arab american cultural Center, George Mason University’s AbuSulayman’s Center for Global Islamic Studies, University of Illinois Chicago’s Critical Middle East Studies Working Group, George Washington University’s Institute for Middle East Studies, Columbia University’s Center for Palestine Studies, New York University’s Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, Security In Context Project

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