“The will of the peoples remains alive”

This is the third article in a four-part series on the Israeli death penalty against Palestinians, drawn from interventions made during the 17 May webinar hosted by the Progressive International and the Palestinian Youth Organization. Rola Abu Dahou is a released prisoner, researcher, and professor of women’s studies at Birzeit University. Abu Dahou situates current events within a longer history of settler colonial violence, arguing that the targeting of Palestinian bodies — especially women — has always been central to projects of erasure and displacement. She reflects on the responsibility of Palestinian academia to document experience, produce liberatory narratives, and resist the normalization of colonial violence.