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4:30pm CDT

Confronting Zionism: Decolonizing Palestine and Building the World Anew

Friday September 4, 2026 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT

For over one hundred years, Palestinians have struggled for liberation in their homeland. This session will take direct analytical aim at the ideology and institutional structures animating Israel’s brutal rule over Palestinian lives, and argue that Zionism is colonial and racist in essence and practice and that decolonization in Palestine predicated on redistribution, reparations and refugee return remains the only just way forward.

Speakers

Noura Erakat

Noura Erakat is Professor of Africana Studies and Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019), which received the Palestine Book Award and the Bronze Medal for... Read More →

Brekhna Aftab

Friday September 4, 2026 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT
Grant Park AB

Anti-colonial Politics

Socialism 2026

4:30pm CDT

Noura Erakat

Brekhna Aftab

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