Jamil Khader

Professor and author

[Jamil Khader @jamilkhader2014]

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𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞: 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑙𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑡ℎ ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑜𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑔𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙, 𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑐, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑒𝑠𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑢𝑚𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒, 𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑑𝑒𝑏𝑡, 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑚, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑦𝑠𝑖𝑠.

𝑊𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑥𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑚 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑢𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑜𝑟𝑦, 𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑎𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑚, 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑓𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑚, 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑-𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖-𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡—𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝐺𝑙𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑡ℎ 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑒, 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑑, 𝑜𝑟 𝑢𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑥𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑔𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑠.

𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐞:
- 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑥𝑖𝑠𝑚, 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑚, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑞𝑢𝑒
- 𝐶𝑎𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑚, 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑚, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚 - 𝑈𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑏𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑝𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡
- 𝑁𝑒𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑚, 𝑤𝑎𝑟, 𝑜𝑐𝑐𝑢𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒
- 𝑆𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑚, 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 – 𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑃𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑒
- 𝑅𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑎𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑚, 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠, 𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒
- 𝐿𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑟, 𝑚𝑖𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑙 𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑒𝑠
- 𝑆𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑓𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑚
- 𝑃𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑚, 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑚, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑠
- 𝐵𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑠, 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠
- 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑡, 𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑙𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑒𝑓𝑡 𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑦
- 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑐𝑖𝑟𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐺𝑙𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑡ℎ 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑛𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑠
- 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑-𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒, 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑚, 𝑚𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑚, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑎𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦
... 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒! (𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒: https://t.co/0qtmf0NhND)

𝐖𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞, 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐥, 𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐩𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲, 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐚, 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐢𝐫, 𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐨, 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐠𝐞𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞.

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[joma @ka_joma_]

contribute!

[Jamil Khader @jamilkhader2014]

@JeninYounesEsq There are more serious problems w/ @normfinkelstein's agnostic position on the Ziofascist settker-colonial state that can't be ignored https://t.co/ePMzjGphCr

[Jenin Younes @JeninYounesEsq]

I’ve now listened to half of this and I can say that my esteem for @normfinkelstein has dropped precipitously.

1) he asks incredulously and rhetorically whether anyone can possibly believe right wingers care about suffering and oppression, dismissively concluding they don’t and all ostensible concern for Palestine is really just about antisemitism. I know a number of right wingers, including @Villgecrazylady and @CurtMills reasonably well and I guarantee they are driven by Palestinian suffering more than concern for America first. They are also driven more by genuine concern than many left-wingers who simply use Palestine to virtue signal and are willing to destroy the pro Palestine movement from within in order to do so.

2) Finkelstein posits America first and concern for Palestinian suffering as antithetical values. Actually, the point I’ve heard many right wingers cogently make, including @TuckerCarlson and @RealCandaceO (who I disagree with on many other issues, btw) is that it is automatically detrimental to America to enable and ratify gross human rights violations. So the two are complementary. We can’t advance our values when we are actively destroying them in other parts of the world.

3) apparently, right wingers do not talk about the holocaust enough for Finkelstein’s satisfaction, which he believes evinces inherent antisemitism. Isn’t this the same guy who wrote the book of the Holocaust industry? Maybe it’s time to concentrate on the holocaust happening now, not the one that happened 80 years ago, with many others in between, by the way. And given how the Nazi holocaust has been weaponized to kill Palestinians and ironically commit a new Holocaust, I think it’s reasonable to determine we’ve discussed it enough and the right lessons haven’t been learned

4) Finkelstein warns about handing your enemies their arguments on a silver platter. He did just that in this podcast.

[Philosophical Salon @Philosoph_Salon]

On "the colonial real": https://t.co/kA9GzuUYUU

[Jamil Khader @jamilkhader2014]

the persistence of a futurity that colonial violence continually seeks, yet ultimately fails, to extinguish.

[Jamil Khader @jamilkhader2014]

On August 13, 1949, a Zionist platoon gang raped and murdered a Palestinian Bedouin girl in the Naqab, then buried her in a shallow grave.

[Philosophical Salon @Philosoph_Salon]

On "the colonial real": https://t.co/kA9GzuUYUU

[Jamil Khader @jamilkhader2014]

My essay argues that the colonial Real is not outside history. It names the ontological and perceptual conditions through which colonial reality sustains itself, but also the impossibility of colonial finality:

[The Palestine Chronicle @PalestineChron]

A ziofascist hasbara account #Gazawood recently circulated videos from a wedding celebration in al-Mawasi, Khan Yunis, falsely presenting them as evidence of “nightlife in Gaza” to mock reports of mass starvation, displacement, bombardment, and exterminatory genocidal violence that claimed over 73,000 Palestinian lives in Gaza, including 20,000 children.

Read the latest commentary buy Jamil Khader.

https://t.co/g8BYNZ2xdj

[Jamil Khader @jamilkhader2014]

through mythic, geographical, and ethical forms of disavowal.
#PalestineIsGlobal #Palestine #Gaza #MiddleEastCritique #Žižek #CriticalTheory #Decolonization #AntiColonial #Liberation #Solidarity #OPAL

[Jamil Khader @jamilkhader2014]

Come join scholars, students, organizers, artists, and social justice activists at the #Palestine is Global Conference at #OPAL for critical conversations on Palestine, Ziofascist settler-colonialism, race, necro-imperialism, resistance, and global solidarities.

[Jamil Khader @jamilkhader2014]

I will be presenting an expanded version of my recent #MiddleEastCritique article examining #Žižek’s liberal-Zionist position on the Gaza genocide, and how he reproduces the epistemic foreclosure of Ziofascist colonial violence ..

[Jamil Khader @jamilkhader2014]

His primary concern becomes the reactions, ironies, and interpretive ambiguities surrounding his own symbolic position within Ziofascist discourse.

The narcissism of Western Marxists!!

[Jamil Khader @jamilkhader2014]

#SlavojŽižek’s latest Substack once again reveals how his position on the #GazaGenocide remains deeply anchored within #Ziofascist liberal intelligibility:

https://t.co/x0x4PXp4wg

[Jamil Khader @jamilkhader2014]

Palestinian existence recedes into the background, while the genocide appears primarily as a crisis in the ethical and symbolic self-understanding of Ziofascist actors rather than as a material structure of colonial extermination organized against Palestinians themselves.

[Jamil Khader @jamilkhader2014]

On @mehdirhasan and @normfinkelstein: When Critique Stops Short: an urgent call to name the structure (#Necro-#imperial #Ziofascism) https://t.co/ePMzjGphCr via @PalestineChron

[Jamil Khader @jamilkhader2014]

Challenging Ziofascist settler-colonial terrorism and its necro-imperialist frame. #BreakingPoints #WesternMarxism #SohrabAhmari #JadperNathaniel

[The Palestine Chronicle @PalestineChron]

This refusal to confront the colonial structure of Zionism is not confined to anti-establishment media commentary. It also appears in some corners of Western critical theory, some of which has been identified with Western Marxism.

Read the latest article by Jamil Khader.

https://t.co/xpeVToAlgv

[The Palestine Chronicle @PalestineChron]

This refusal to confront the colonial structure of Zionism is not confined to anti-establishment media commentary. It also appears in some corners of Western critical theory, some of which has been identified with Western Marxism.

Read the latest article by Jamil Khader.

https://t.co/xpeVToAlgv