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Black Palestinian Transnational Solidarity in an Age of Genocide

January 21 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series
Dr. Noura Erakat
Rutgers University – New Brunswick
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
20 Cooper SQ, 3rd FL
New York City, NY 10003
Zoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/99032257961

Please join CSAAD for our first Africa~Diaspora Forum Series for the Spring semester, led by Dr. Noura Erakat. The simultaneous bombardment of Gaza and occupation of Ferguson, Missouri in 2014 catalyzed renewals of Black-Palestinian Transnational Solidarity. The Gaza-Ferguson moment, as it came to be known, illuminated the co-constitutive nature of racism and helped congeal the joint struggle for liberation among Black and Palestinian radicals, indicating that the phenomenon continued to exceed identity politics. During its peak, this analytical framework and activist praxis helped reveal the colonial nature of US state violence targeting Black communities as well as pull back the national security cloak enveloping the Palestinian struggle for liberation. This lecture will explore Black-Palestinian transnational solidarity – in its contemporary and historical iterations – with an eye on how it shaped US-based alliances as well as its limitations and potential to respond to the current political moment. 

For accommodations, please contact the Assistant Director for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu.

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Noura Erakat is Professor of Africana Studies and Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019), which received the Palestine Book Award and the Bronze Medal for the Independent Publishers Book Award in Current Events/Foreign Affairs.  She is co-founding editor of Jadaliyya and an editorial board member of the Journal of Palestine Studies as well as Human Geography. She is a co-founding board member of the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival. She has served as Legal Counsel for a Congressional Subcommittee in the US House of Representatives, as Legal Advocate for the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Refugee and Residency Rights, and as National Organizer and Legal Advocate of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. In 2023, Noura co-chaired an Independent Task Force on the Application of National Security Memorandum-20 to Israel, a report documenting how U.S. arms to Israel have been used in violation of U.S. and international law and which was submitted to the White House. Noura has also produced video documentaries, including “Gaza In Context” and “Black Palestinian Solidarity.” Noura completed a non-resident fellowship of the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School as well as a Mahmoud Darwish Visiting Professorship at Brown University.  In 2022, she was selected as a Freedom Fellow by the Marguerite Casey Foundation. In 2025, the University of Ghent awarded the Amnesty International Chair in recognition of her contribution to human rights and scholarship.

 

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January 21
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