Palestine for Human Rights

Final Paper on Palestine for Human Rights course.

Paper details Due Date: May 18th (Final Deadline, no late submissions) 10-12 Pages 40% For your final paper, I invite you to write a commentary on the relationship between human rights and the contemporary condition of Palestine. There are two parts (and two questions) that this commentary is responding to. The exact question you are responding to asks the following two questions: 1) What is the place of human rights in Palestine? 2) How would you rewrite the grammar of human rights to address the situation in Palestine? This part of the essay can be written as speculative fiction. You are encouraged to write creatively. You can draw on autobiography. You can write freely. Your task is to offer a radical reimagining of justice in Palestine through whatever stories, feelings, and possibilities come to mind. ***This essay should center one of the following terms listed in the glossary below (i.e. ambivalence, radical hope/refusal/decolonialism). Drawing on at least three readings from our course, and at least two outside academic sources, your task is to critically engage in a commentary about the place of human rights in Palestine and its future. Glossary for your Essay Ambivalence; A continual fluctuation between wanting one thing and wanting its opposite; Simultaneous attraction toward attraction and repulsion from an object, person or action (Young, 1995: 161) Radical Hope/Refusal; What might those who are denied the right to live teach us about possibility, about potentiality, about otherwise? (Hartman, public lecture “Refusal and Radical Hope”, 2018). Decolonialism; I have been supporting in the past those who maintain that it is not enough to change the content of the conversation, that is it of the essence to change the terms of the conversation…In order to call into question the modern/colonial foundation of the control of knowledge, it is necessary to focus on the knower rather than the known (Mignolo, Epistemic Disobedience, Independent Thought and De-Colonial Freedom, 4)