Performing Legality in Service of Colonialism: Anti Antisemitism as Censorship
Lena Salaymeh Performing Legality in Service of Colonialism: AntiAntisemitism as Censorship This talk analyzes recent quasilegal definitions of antisemitism that function as proxies for debates about Zionist colonialism. I propose that procedural and substantive intellectual colonialism coloniality) entrap both proponents and opponents of Zionist colonialism. Thus, debates about new antisemitism illustrate some of the epistemological difficulties of overcoming coloniality. I argue that anticolonial heuristics are more consequential than anticolonial intentions or objectives. Lena Salaymeh is a British Academy Global Professor in the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (University of Oxford) and Professor in the Section des Sciences Religieuses of the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris Sciences et Lettres). She is also CoOrganizer of the Decolonial Comparative Law Project at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and Private International Law (H
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