Our ability to narrate was never out of our hands, and resistance does not need the authoritative pe-approval of static international codes. Our history gives us that authority.
Muntaha Aqel grew up among “the children of the rocks” of the First Intifada, and lived her life in service of her people’s liberation.
The students in Birzeit University’s Israel Studies program are “trying to produce Palestinian knowledge of Israeli society” through critical engagement with Israeli culture, politics and society. In the process, they are fundamentally remaking the dominant paradigm of Israel Studies as it has been configured in the United States and increasingly in Great Britain, with its proud “advocacy” mandate on behalf of the Israeli state. Birzeit’s program turns this paradigm inside out, providing students with a radical alternative.