%0 Journal Article
%T Between Acceleration and Occupation: Palestine and the Struggle for Global Justice
%A John Collins
%J Studies in Social Justice
%D 2010
%I University of Windsor
%X This article explores the contemporary politics of global violence through an examination of the particular challenges and possibilities facing Palestinians who seek to defend their communities against an ongoing settler-colonial project (Zionism) that is approaching a crisis point.  As the  colonial dynamic in Israel/Palestine returns to its most elemental level ¨C land, trees, homes ¨C it also continues to be a laboratory for new forms of accelerated violence whose global impact is hard to overestimate.  In such a context, Palestinians and international solidarity activists find themselves confronting a quintessential 21st century activist dilemma: how to craft a strategy of what Paul Virilio calls ˇ°popular defenseˇ± at a time when everyone seems to be implicated in the machinery of global violence? I argue that while this dilemma represents a formidable challenge for Palestinians, it also helps explain why the Palestinian struggle is increasingly able to build bridges with wider struggles for global justice, ecological sustainability, and indigenous rights.
%K global justice
%K settler colonialism
%K violence
%K Israel/Palestine
%K solidarity
%K activism
%K globalization
%U http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/SSJ/article/view/2958