Summary
Palestinian sociologist, born and raised in Silwan, Al-Quds, who immigrated to Canada and is Professor of Sociology at Mount Royal University, and author of the Al-Shabaka policy brief Liberal Zionism: A Pillar of Israel’s Settler Colonial Project (June 14, 2023) (Liberal Zionism: A Pillar of Israel’s Settler Colonial Project, lines 133-135, 259-261).
Details
- The brief’s author biography (lines 259-261, as captured): “Muhannad Ayyash was born and raised in Silwan, Al-Quds, before immigrating to Canada, where he is now Professor of Sociology at Mount Royal University.”
- He is the author of Lordship and Liberation in Palestine-Israel: The Promise of Decolonial Sovereignties (Columbia University Press, 2025) and A Hermeneutics of Violence (UTP, 2019), and co-editor of Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question of Palestine (University of Alberta Press, 2023) (line 261). The 2025 title postdates the 2023 brief and belongs to the biography as captured.
- He has published articles in journals such as Interventions, the European Journal of International Relations, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and the European Journal of Social Theory, and opinion pieces for Al-Jazeera, The Baffler, Middle East Eye, Mondoweiss, The Breach, and Middle East Monitor (line 261).
- In the brief, he argues Liberal Zionism is settler-colonial root and stem, directly responsible for the 1948 Nakba, and proposes De-Zionization in its place (lines 141-155, 173, 237-255).
Related pages
Liberal Zionism: A Pillar of Israel’s Settler Colonial Project, Liberal Zionism, De-Zionization, Al-Shabaka, Silwan