This richly detailed essay by Najwa Mayer and Randa Tawil looks at Zionism and U.S. colonialism as capital, political, and epistemological fields that together condition constructions of “Asian American” as an identity.
“…’Asian America’ continues to wrestle between a racialized identity borne of U.S. empire on the one hand and a social critique of race, nation, and empire on the other…”
“An internationalist analysis of political Zionism across Asia(n)/America is also a story of U.S. empire. It, thus, necessitates located critiques of multipolar structures of power—requiring interdisciplinary approaches to the critical study of Zionism.”
Read the full essay in The Margins. Posted 2/3/25.
Listen to a conversation with Randa Tawil on ICSZ’s podcast, Unpacking ZIonism: The Trouble with White Feminism