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Il Manifesto for Gaza | with an interview on boicotting Israel from the University

Today, the Italian daily newspaper Il Manifesto came out with a 28-page issue entirely dedicated to Gaza. This is to demarcate a political terrain. In a moment in which the liberal left starts to call out for ‘peace’ and to stop Netanyahu, we continue to ask for an end to the genocide, an end to settler colonialism, an end to the brutal Zionist project in Palestine.

Luciana Cimino interviewed me about the work done with students over the last two and a half years, from the relations of our universities with the military to the direct actions to denounce the genocide in Palestine. It is necessary, important work – against the militarization of our lives, against coloniality, for a differential and liberatory way of inhabiting the world. Both inside and outside the university.

Thanks to the few colleagues who believed in this struggle and took real action. Thanks to the students for continuing to fight with so much determination.

My interview can be found here and below, while the entire issue of the Manifesto on Gaza is available here.

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Insurgent Ground: Land, Housing, Property

I am glad to be part of the open-access volume “Insurgent ground: land, housing, property” curated by the wonderful Ananya Roy, Terra Graziani & Annie Powers.

The book emerges from a Freedom School held at the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy in Summer 2024. From the Institute’s website:

Organized as part of the project, Housing the Third Reconstruction, the convening brought together movement and university-based scholars actively engaged in insurgent research and critical theorization as a part of, or as accompaniment to, freedom movements. Intended as inquiry into the conditions and possibilities of emancipatory land and housing, Freedom School 2024 took up the following issues and questions: 1) What is the present historical conjuncture of global racial capitalism and the attendant political economy and ideology of land and real-estate?; 2) How are movements undertaking land struggle, dismantling police-property relations, and enacting housing and spatial justice?; 3) How do we learn from “beautiful experiments” (Hartman 2019) of reconstruction, rematriation, reparation, and decolonization that are or have been underway? In the wake of mass protest movements that reveal possible futures while failing to materialize their aspirations, how can collective liberatory work learn from its recent and distant pasts in order to realize the world we imagine?; and 4) What are the ontologies of radical relationality, including kinship, presence, solidarity, and community, that are being created to counter social death and state-organized abandonment?

Download: https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/2025/05/05/insurgentground/