Thread by @NimerSultany

A thread about the arrest of Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian:

Ben-Gavir's police force is trying to intimidate, humiliate, and silence a leading Palestinian intellectual.

What will his thugs question Nadera about (what do you mean by "necropolitical capitalism"? "abolitionism and settler colonialism"? "unchilding"? "security theology"?)

It is rich for a police force, led by someone who was literally convicted with supporting of terrorism and incitement for racism, to accuse an Palestinian academic, who opposes genocide, with incitement to violence.

That "bastion of rights" Israel's Supreme Court recently approved Ben Gavir's appointment stating that it was not beyond the zone of reasonableness. timesofisrael.com/high-court-rej…

Ben-Gavir has been moulding the police in his image: haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Make no mistake, the Hebrew University's senior officials are responsible for this arrest. They incited the mob against their own employee, twice, since October, briefly suspending her form work, because of her anti-war speech and because of their fanatical support for genocide.

Prof. Nadera is also an activist who cared deeply about the residents of East Jerusalem, where she lived and witnessed the daily horrors of subjecting an entire population to humiliation, violence, and unfreedom.

A good way to show solidarity with Prof. Nadera is to read and share her academic work. Here are a few recommendations:

1. Even before the genocide in Gaza, Prof. Nadera exposed the shameful silence of feminist social work on Palestine.

2. On the carceral state, abolitionism, and the logic of elimination in settler colonial contexts

3. "Understanding the dimensions of Israeli colonial occupation in East Jerusalem requires an inquiry into everyday modes of oppression, along with consideration of larger themes of historical domination and structural control in Palestine/Israel."

4. "the interlocking oppressions that characterize the Israeli occupation—as those of other colonial systems—are mostly overlooked, with little attention being devoted in mainstream literature to the intersections of race, class, gender, & sexuality within the colonial project."

5. Palestinian fatherhood as a "declonolnial practice", challenging "the necro-penological weaponization" of dead childern's body and "transmutation of grief"

6. "Drawing from everyday aspects of Palestinian victimization, survival, life and death, and moving between the local and the global, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian introduces and defines her notion of 'Israeli security theology' and the politics of fear within Palestine/Israel."

7. "unchilding works to enable a complex machinery of violence against Palestinian children: imprisonment, injuries, loss, trauma, and militarized political occupation"