Michael Warschawski - Lea’s husband and Israeli anti-Zionist organizer and activist who was prominent in Matzpen - the Israeli anti-Zionist, socialist organization--in the 1960-1980s

Ahmad Mansara - A 13-year-old Palestinian boy charged with attempted murder and one of Tsemel’s clients

Israa Jaabis - One of Tsemel’s clients who was accused of an attempted suicide bombing and charged with attempted murder

Key Issues

Advocate is an excellent tool for outreach and will be of special interest to people who want to explore the following topics:

Israeli Occupation of Palestine
Cultural Erasure
Systemic Injustice & Legal Discrimination
Right to the land
Resistance & Struggle
Child Detention & Criminal Justice System
Anti-Palestinian/Anti-Muslim Racism
Human rights

Sources

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.

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.