Students For Justice in Palestine: Awakening the US Campus

Session Submission Type: Non-Paper Session: Dialogue Format

Abstract

Panelists will discuss the growing SJP movement on college campuses across the United States of America. “Students for Justice in Palestine” consists of both a national effort and individual groups within each university in the USA to strengthen and empower the Palestinian narrative in the US, while engaging in political activism fighting for Palestinian human rights from the US academic setting. This panel will examine the goals of the movement and the message SJP aims to provoke on campus, as well as the significance of SJP in the USA: why are successful SJP's specifically needed, on the US campus, as a stepping stone for dire needed justice for Palestinians? What is the significance for students involved in SJP work to have academic empowerment among US intellectuals?

Sub Unit

• American Studies Association Annual Meeting

Chair

• Steven Salaita, Independent Scholar

Panelists

• Yazeed Ibrahim, Students for Justice in Palestine at University of California, Irvine (CA)

• Lena Ibrahim, Students for Justice in Palestine at George Mason University (VA)

• Amal Ali, Students for Justice in Palestine at University of California, Riverside (CA)

• Rahim Kurwa, University of California, Los Angeles (CA)