CES Volume 9, Issue 1 (Fall 2024)

CES Volume 9, Issue 1 responds to the urgency of transnational solidarity movements in support of Palestinian liberation by exploring the possibilities and limits of frameworks grounded in comparison and analogy. Analogies to South African apartheid, Jim Crow, and the Trail of Tears have served as important entry points for understanding the Palestinian experience and for developing a sense of shared struggle with other colonized and racialized populations. While the genocide in Gaza has led many of us to reach for analogy to think through anticolonial political violence in Palestine, its gains have also been tempered by the way free-floating analogy can run both ways. We have seen Zionism cloak itself in the language of anti-discrimination, while also positioning Israel as an exception beyond analogy. Considering how both exception and analogy permeate the social construction of Palestine, contributors explore how Palestine emerges as key to a coherent reading of the connections between foreign and domestic political violence, between imperialism and fascism, between counterinsurgency and policing, between settler colonialism and racial regimes, between decolonization and abolition. The issue features four articles, a translation project, a political document, a syllabus, an interview, and a book forum. We dedicate this issue to the people of Gaza.