When Abolitionists Say “Free Them All,” We Mean Palestine Too
Dr. Nadine Naber is a scholar activist from Al Salt, Jordan. She conducts research in collaboration with local communities of color, social movements, and policy-based processes.
Dr. Naber received her PhD in Women’s Studies and Cultural Anthropology at the University of California, Davis in 2002. She is currently a Professor in the Gender and Women’s Studies Program and the Global Asian Studies Program at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC).
Her work focuses on racial justice and MENA communities; Arab and Muslim feminist and queer activism; activist mothering within the Arab Spring revolutions and U.S. social movements; feminist abolition; feminist-queer of color activism against militarism, war, and colonization; feminist of color coalition/solidarity politics; and activist research methodologies.
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| Filename | when-abolitionists-say-free-them-all-we-mean-palestine-too-_-truthout.pdf |
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| Category | Op-Ed |
| Tags | Abolitionists, Free, Palestinians |
| sub-title | We must fight militarism and oppression abroad as fi ercely as we do at home. |
| authors | Nadine Naber, Clarissa Rojas |
| publication | Truthout |
| date-published | 2022-12-29 00:00:00 |
With every escalation of United States wars — whether the post-9/11 war of terror or Genocide JoeBiden’s current war on Palestine — we witness an escalation in policing and the militarization of theU.S. border. It is no coincidence that the Senate is currently discussing changes to the U.S. migrationsystem as part of a military aid package related toIsrael and Ukraine, in the name of “national security.” Israel purchases more than 80 percent of its weapons andmilitary technology from the U.S., using the billions of dollars of military assistance it receives from the U.S.annually. The U.S. in turn supports Israel to operate as the police of the Middle East, North Africa, and the worldover. Leftists, abolitionists and antiwar activists need to understand that our struggles against policing, prisons andU.S. empire are inseparable. As my INCITE!Comrade Clarissa Rojas and I have written, just as U.S. empire has always reliedupon policing and containment as interconnected strategies for securing global power, it has always been militarist,existing in a permanent state of war and expansion, obsessively concerned with the extractive accumulation of land,resources, cultures and the people it commodifies into power and capital.(https://truthout.org/video/will-biden-cave-on-gops-immigration-demands-in-ukraine-funding-request/) (https://truthout.org/articles/to-abolish-prisons-and-militarism-we-need-anti-imperialist-abolition-feminism/) (https://www.abolitionfeminisms.org/volume-1.html)