Palestine X Disability Justice Syllabus
One of my goals an editor, writer, and activist is to speak out about the genocide carried out by the Israeli Defense Forces against the people of Gaza. I remember how scary it was to speak out in the days after the October 7th attack by Hamas. I was heavily criticized by disabled acquaintances accusing me of antisemitism. It is not antisemitic to be against genocide and the dehumanization of an entire people. There are many in the disability community who claim disability justice yet overlook the principle of collective liberation. The silence from major disability-led organizations and disabled leaders in the United States denotes their complicity in a mass disabling event and the deaths of thousands of people. And this is why I use the platform I have to center disabled perspectives.
Below is a list of publications from the Disability Visibility Project on Palestinian liberation and disability justice and related topics. Through these essays I hope people can make the connections and be in solidarity with the people of Palestine who are fighting for their homeland and right to exist.
Additional readings are listed below as well.
DIY meets Infrastructure: A conversation with Moaz Mansour of Gaza Online
By Jane Shi
By Nelly Bassily
Unmasking Mask Hate: The Racial-Criminal Pathologization of Dissent
By Leah Harris and Liat Ben-Moshe
Disabled People Jury Rigging Internet Connections During a Genocide: A Thank You Note
Statement of Solidarity by Alice Wong: 2024 MacArthur Fellows Program
When the Poem is a Spreadsheet: Joining Crips for eSims for Gaza in #ConnectingGaza
Healing a 75 year open wound: A call for lasting peace from the river to the sea
Reproductive Genocide and Immigration Injustice: The Case of Lama Zaqout from Gaza
#AltTextPalestine—from Ableist Shame to Indigenous Solidarity (I Know Why the Caged Nerd Reads)
Additional readings
“They Destroyed What Was Inside Us”: Children with Disabilities Amid Israel’s Attacks on Gaza – Human Rights Watch
A tragedy within a tragedy: UN experts alarmed by harrowing conditions for Palestinians with disabilities trapped in Gaza – United Nations Office of the High Commissioner
Disabled Palestinians are facing horrors piled upon horrors. I think of their suffering every day – Frances Ryan
Israeli Attacks Devastate Lives of Children with Disabilities – Human Rights Watch
Gaza’s Deaf Community in the Face of Genocide – Timothy Y. Loh
Why Palestinian Liberation is Disability Justice – Nelly Bassily
In war zones, disabled people must fend for themselves – Rohan Zhou-Lee
Disability Justice for Palestine – Sins Invalid
DJ is a politic of peace – Sins Invalid
Statement of Solidarity with Palestine – Abolition and Disability Justice Coalition
Gaza Blockade Puts People with Diabetes at Risk – Human Rights Watch
Israeli Attacks, Blockade Devastating for People with Disabilities – Human Rights Watch – Human Rights Watch
Israeli Restrictions Harm People with Disabilities – Human Rights Watch
Witness: How One Woman with a Disability Builds a Life in Gaza – Human Rights Watch
Palestinians with disabilities subject to unbearable consequences of the ongoing hostilities and violence in the OPT – United Nations
Facing life in the Gaza Strip with a new disability – UNICEF
People with disabilities not spared by Israel’s war machine on Gaza Strip – Al-Jazeera News
Refusing Genocide w/ Rasha Abdulhadi – Death Panel podcast (transcript)
On The Atlantic’s “The UN’s Gaza Statistics Make No Sense” – Death Panel podcast (transcript)
Water for Gaza – Death Panel podcast (transcript)
What the Solidarity Encampments Demand w/ Nicki Kattoura and Charlie Markbreiter – Death Panel podcast (transcript)
A Killing Peace w/ Rasha Abdulhadi, Part One – Death Panel podcast (transcript)
A Killing Peace w/ Rasha Abdulhadi, Part Two – Death Panel podcast (transcript)
Letters from Gaza w/ Danya Qato – Death Panel podcast (transcript)
Pathologizing Palestinian Resistance w/ Liat Ben-Moshe and Leah Harris – Death Panel podcast (transcript)
Body Politics w/ Jasbir Puar – Death Panel podcast (transcript)
Public Health and Palestine w/ Danya Qato – Death Panel podcast (transcript)
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