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Resources

The Discriminatory Laws Database,” Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, 2017 -- A legal database tracking discrimination, collected by a non-profit organization, independent human rights organization and legal center in Haifa, Israel.

B’Tselem: The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories -- An independent non-profit tracking legal violations of Palestinian human rights in the West Bank and Gaza, based in Jerusalem.

Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian -- Explores the impact of political violence and criminalization on Palestinian children, including the traumas they face and ways they resist and survive.

“Enshrining Discrimination: Israel’s Nation-State Law,” Nadia Ben-Youssef and Sadra Samaan Tamari -- A historical and political analysis of the 2018 Israeli Nation-State Law that codifies forms of national discrimination against Palestinian citizens of Israel.

Israel and Its Palestinian Citizens, Nadim N. Rouhana -- Explores the political, legal, civil, and social facets of life for Palestinian citizens of Israel.

A Shadow Over Palestine: The Imperial Life of Race in America, Keith Feldman -- Examines the relationship between Israel and the United States, looking at the racialization of Palestinians and racial segregation in the U.S.

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About the author:

Rachel Brown

Rachel Brown is an Assistant Professor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Her work and teaching address feminist and queer theory, migration, transnational feminist solidarity, and settler colonialism. Brown's writing has appeared in Feminist Theory, Political Theory, International Feminist Journal of Politics, and Global Networks. She is working on a book manuscript about migrant care and domestic workers in Palestine/Israel. She is a co-host of the Always Already Podcast, a critical theory podcast with a transnational listenership across the humanities and social sciences.

Rachel Brown

Siddhant Issar

Siddhant Issar is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His writing has been published or is forthcoming in Contemporary Political Theory, The Black Scholar, Public Seminar, and an edited volume on Rosa Luxemburg. He is also a co-host of the Always Already Podcast. Issar is currently working on his dissertation, which thinks with the Movement for Black Lives to develop a critical theory of racial capitalism.

Siddhant Issar