Complicated Conversations: Race and the Question of Palestine

How do racial discourses shape the conflict in Israel and Palestine? Whether debating terms like “Indigeneity,” “settler colonialism,” “apartheid,” and “genocide;” racial differences in public opinion in the United States; or the divide between countries in the “Global South” versus the “Global North,” race haunts the conflict like a specter. This roundtable explored the uses and abuses of race and racialization frameworks for understanding the ongoing war in Israel/Palestine.