Academics writing a book on "Whiteness and Palestine." Of course they are antisemitic.

Here is a Call for Papers I found online after being alerted by Phyllis Chesler. It was written by professor Janet Gray and associate professor Leigh-Anne Francis at the College of New Jersey in Trenton.

Call for Proposals (due Dec 1)

Whiteness and Palestine

We are inspired by the existing body of scholarship that includes whiteness in its analysis of the occupation of and apartheid system in Palestine and Israeli state genocide against Palestinians. Examinations of whiteness in the literature, however, tend to be marginal and difficult to find. Our desire to center Palestinians, the Palestine Freedom Movement, and Palestine’s past and present in a critical whiteness study is at the heart of this project. We believe that such a focus will contribute to scholarly efforts to spotlight and map strategies for building cross-ethnoracial pro-Palestinian rights coalitions, particularly work that examines intersectional identities, statuses, and oppressions impacting Palestinian histories and lives.

We envision an anthology that includes chapters designed for non-experts and mainstream audiences who want to know more as well as people with substantive knowledge of the subject.

Topics of exploration include, but are not limited to:

History

● White supremacy and the roots of Zionism

● The ways in which white supremacy/white nationalism informs, is enmeshed with,

animates, and exploits Zionism

● White supremacy, Zionism, and the first Nakba

● Jewishness and racialization (e.g. who is white, who is not, racial heirarchization of

Jewishness)

● Settler colonialism as a project of whiteness 

Whiteness and Zionism, 2000–2024

● Racial/ethnoracial apartheid in Palestine

● White supremacist masculinities and Zionist violence

● White supremacy and Zionist state violence against Palestinians

● Genocide against Palestinians as a white supremacist project

● Israeli state war on Palestinian children as a component of racial genocide

● Israeli settler violence as a white supremacist settler colonial project

● Whiteness and US collaboration in Israeli state genocide against Palestinians

● Whiteness/white supremacy, Black Palestinians, Asian Palestinians and/or Asians in

Palestine

● Transnational imbrication of white supremacy in Zionism in the global north, Israel,

and/or Far West Asia

Anti-Palestinian Racism Praxis / Pro-Palestinian rights praxis

● Articulations of ethnoracial identity, collectivity, and practices in Jewish organizing for Palestinian rights

● Anti-Zionism and non-Zionism as anti-racist activism

● Palestinian Freedom Movement and resistance to white supremacy in Palestine and around the world

● Coalition and solidarity strategies among BIPOC liberation movements, including Palestinian rights activism

● Peace activism and the movement against genocide as a struggle against white supremacy

 This is not a parody. This is a mainstream way of looking at Israel from many, many academics. 

It is humorous - and it is profoundly concerning. 

Phyllis says, "Frankly, I'm amazed that [they are] not calling for an intersectional analysis of Oppressed, Palestinian Sex Workers who are POC." And she also notes that, of course, "Not a word about forced veiling, honor killing, polygamy, child marriage, sex slavery, infidel hatred, censorship, the torture/murder of dissidents and gays, terrorism, terror tunnels, Hamas's propaganda. Palestine after 10/7, there's no mention of that date, or of Iran's proxy Hamas's use of its own civilians as human shields, their sadistic barbarism, etc."

This is all true, but let's take a step back. This is essentially a book proposal where the professors will write an introduction, choose the articles, slap it together and charge $40 while pretending that this has academic merit. 

But their editing duties are not to uncover any truth, rather to find people to join their echo chamber. 

The chapter headings have already been written. There will be no surprises for anyone who buys it. If someone would submit an article that proves 100% that their premises are wrong, no matter how well written or argued, they will throw it in the trash.  

And their premises are wrong. Jews don't have "whiteness," there is no "genocide," there is no "apartheid," Israelis are not "white supremacist," Palestinians are not allies with people of color.  But the book will not argue that these lies are true - it assumes that these lies are true and then pretends to analyze them.

It is especially insidious because when people don't realize they are being manipulated. The lies are being treated as established truths, and most people do not have the ability to think that the premise is wrong to begin with. 

In short:

Beyond that, a little thought shows that this is just as antisemitic as any Nazi propaganda. Virtually all of these libels are based on assumptions that, when you trace them back, is that Jews are evil. The only way that one can make the assumption of "genocide" or "apartheid" or "ethnic cleansing" or "colonialism" is if you have the unstated assumption that Jews have the intent to murder and oppress Arabs, that they have no legitimate historic or legal or moral claims to the land.

That is antisemitism.

And of course there is the irony that it was the Palestinian leader Amin Husseini, whom they still idolize, who collaborated with the Nazis. The Palestinian propaganda is virtually identical to white supremacist propaganda - obsession with the Talmud, with denying the Holocaust, with denying Jews are a people, and claiming Jews control the world. 

Which side is more aligned with white supremacism?

 

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