Palestine Book Club
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11.11.2025
Free Palestine Maastricht
Palestine book club is finally here! To stop the zionist genocidal machine, we first need to understand how it was built, how it runs, and who oils it. This book club’s purpose is to learn about the plight of Palestinian people, the oppression they have had to endure for the last century and connect it with the larger geopolitical systems that set the struggle in motion. Why did Europeans want to colonise Palestine? What role does capitalist imperialism play in the Palestinian genocide? Why, after 2 years of live-streamed genocide, do Western leaders continue to incessantly support the inhumane Zionist onslaught? And what can we do to resist?
Join us for our first session, where we are going to be discussing Recognising the Stranger by Isabella Hammad. This is an urgent and moving essay on the Palestinian struggle that was first delivered as an Edward W. Said memorial lecture at Columbia University only nine days before 7 October 2023. The essay is relatively shor,t so we will be discussing it in full, as well as the afterword on Gaza.