Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question of Palestine explores Canada-Palestine relations through a settler colonial lens. The authors argue that there are direct parallels between Canada’s settler colonial project and its support for the Israeli settler colonial dispossession of Palestinians. Chapters reflect on community politics and activism, migration, orientalism, and critical race theory. Among its unique contributions, the volume provides a fresh look at Canada’s foreign policy as informed and shaped by its own history of settler colonialism. The collection also illuminates the breadth and depth of Palestinian life in Canada. Throughout, the chapters are connected by common themes of settler colonial destruction, dispossession, segregation, and otherness, as well as accounts of people challenging those processes in search of a better and fairer world. The book will be of interest to scholars in Indigenous Studies, International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, Canadian Studies, Palestine Studies, and beyond.
Contributors: Samer Abdelnour, Nadia Abu-Zahra, Rachad Antonius, Lina Assi, M. Muhannad Ayyash, Peige Desjarlais, Randa Farah, Azeezah Kanji, Maurice Jr. Labelle, Nadia Naser-Najjab, Emily Regan Wills, Mira Sucharov, Jeremy Wildeman. Foreword by Veldon Coburn.
Foreword
Veldon Coburn
Introduction
M. Muhannad Ayyash & Jeremy Wildeman
Part I: Conceptualizing Palestine-Canada Relations through the Settler Colonial Framework
Chapter 1: Hyphenation and Conciliation in the Settler Colony
M. Muhannad Ayyash
Chapter 2: A Shared Settler Colonialism
Jeremy Wildeman
Part II: Settler Colonial Dispossession and Repression
Chapter 3: Canada and the Palestinian refugees: Humanitarian License to Dispossess?
Randa Farah & Peige Desjarlais
Chapter 4: Enforcing the Settler Contract: Repression of Palestine Solidarity in Canadian Colonial Multiculturalism
Azeezah Kanji
Part III: Canada’s Policies and the Perpetuation of Settler-Colonial Domination
Chapter 5: Canada’s Role in the People-to-People Programme: A Critical Assessment
Nadia Naser-Najjab
Chapter 6: Aid for Peace Revisited: A New Paradigm for Understanding Conflict and Development
Nadia Abu-Zahra
Part IV: Restricting the Public Debate on Palestine
Chapter 7: Palestinian Images, Israeli Narratives: Radio-Canada Coverage of the 2014 War on Gaza
Rachad Antonius
Chapter 8: Canada’s Israel Lobby and the Palestinians
Mira Sucharov
Part V: Palestinian Life and Activism in Canada
Chapter 9: Exclusion and Exile: The Identity of Working-class Palestinians in Canada
Lina Assi & Samer Abdelnour
Chapter 10: Palestinian Organizations in Ottawa: Understanding Communities in Practice
Emily Regan Wills
Chapter 11: Re-Presenting Palestine: Sami Hadawi and the Palestinian Revolution in Canada
Maurice Jr. Labelle
Conclusion: The Struggle for a Fairer Future
Jeremy Wildeman
