Historians for Palestine is a global coalition of scholars.
We came together in 2024 to respond to the deliberate and systematic destruction of academic institutions, scholars, and students – that is, to the scholasticide – in Gaza and to heed the call of our Gazan colleagues, who requested our explicit and vocal solidarity.
As historians, we recognize the repressive power of hegemonic master narratives, the significance of the Nakba as a transformative event and an ongoing process, the obfuscation of Palestinian history and the silencing of Palestinians, and the need to define a disciplinary praxis that locates Palestinian liberation at the center of global freedom movements and the struggle against settler colonialism.
Our short term goal was to focus on the American Historical Association (AHA), seeking to democratize the institution and push it to concretely oppose the genocide and scholasticide of our colleagues in Gaza. Our long term goal is to continue to highlight Palestinian voices, narratives, and histories by including them in panels and roundtables while uplifting their critical work. Further, we remain committed to democratizing this institution in coalition with those scholars it has marginalized or ignored, including graduate students, racialized scholars, queer and trans scholars, precarious scholars, and our Palestinian colleagues.
The historical discipline includes all of us; the AHA is ours.