Abel Amene is a socialist organizer on a variety of issues including immigrant rights, racial justice, police and prison abolition, environmental justice, labor rights, housing justice and internationalism. Born and raised in Ethiopia and now a resident of the DC, Abel’s organizing experience focuses primarily on legislative advocacy. They have spearheaded a successful effort to give voting rights to noncitizens in DC. Abel has drafted and advocated for several legislation in the DC Council and Arlington City Council on issues ranging from healthcare, abolition, environmental justice, labor rights, and the rights of immigrants. Abel also serves on the steering and executive committees of several working groups and national bodies in the Democratic Socialists of America, the largest socialist organization in the US. Their dedication to struggle for liberation comes from personal experience including having been criminalized, imprisoned, and driven to homelessness. A member of the Steering Committee of the Palestine Solidarity Working Group, Abel is also dedicated to Palestinian liberation, unconditionally, and holds a principled stance against anti-Palestinian racism and Zionism. They have led efforts, locally and nationally, to hold supposedly progressive and socialist politicians who betray their alleged goals and values by voting in favor of sending billions of dollars of military funding to the so-called State of Israel, or voting in favor of resolutions adopting of the IHRA definition which falsely and maliciously conflates anti-Zionism with antisemitism.

Emmaia Gelman is the founding Director of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, which examines the political and ideological work of Zionist institutions beyond their direct advocacy for Israel. She has taught at NYU and Sarah Lawrence College. She researches the history of ideas about race, queerness, safety, and rights, and their production as political levers in the realm of hate crimes policy, surveillance, anti-terror measures, and war. Emmaia is at work on a critical history of the Anti-Defamation League (1913-1990) as a Cold War neoconservative institution, as well as an edited volume on the ADL’s intrusions into popular movements. She is the co-chair of the American Studies Association Caucus on Academic and Community Activism, and a longtime activist in New York City on Palestine, policing, antiracism, and queer issues.

Terri Ginsberg is a film and cultural scholar who became a Palestine solidarity activist in the course of earning her Ph.D. in Cinema Studies at New York University with a dissertation on Holocaust film. She specializes in the critical analysis of international cinema, in particular cinema of the Arab world and German cinema, for which she draws upon Marxism, queer theory, feminism, postcolonial theory, and critical race theory. She has taught at numerous institutions of higher learning in North America and the Middle East region. Her most recent books include Films of Arab Loutfi and Heiny Srour (2021), Cinema of the Arab World (co-editor, 2020), Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema (co-author, 2020), and Visualizing the Palestinian Struggle (2016). She is currently Director of Research and Academic Affairs at the International Association of Middle Eastern Studies (IAMES), an Associate Editor of the Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World, and a member of the Organizing Collective of the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI).

John Harfouch is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He studies the history of philosophy with an emphasis on imperialism, colonialism, and science. He is currently studying the work of Fayez Sayegh, a twentieth century Palestinian philosopher, who was primarily responsible for passing the 1975 UN Resolution declaring Zionism a form of racism.

Sara Kershnar is the co-founder and international coordinator of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network established in 2007. Sara began her Palestinian solidarity work during the second intifada. Sara is also a co-founder of Generation FIVE, an organization working on transformative justice approaches to addressing child sexual abuse and works towards abolition in solidarity with currently and formerly-incarcerated people. After her father tested positive for HIV, Sara began her organizing and social justice work in the movements to reduce drug-related harm and demand the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS. Sara is the queer mother of a fabulous eight-year old. Sara has coordinated and been a lead writer on several publications including the The Business of Backlash: The Attack on the Palestinian Movement and Other Movements for Social Justice; Israel’s Worldwide Role in Repression focused on the role of Israel’s government, its military, and related corporations and organizations in a global industry of violence and repression; Greenwashing Apartheid: The Jewish National Fund’s Environmental Cover Up – an eBook; and was a producer of a documentary film, “Enduring Roots: Over a Century of Resistance to the Jewish National Fund.” Sara has also published several articles on reducing drug-related harm and a manual on implementing transformative justice approaches to child sexual abuse.

Sean L. Malloy is a Professor of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) at the University of California, Merced. He received his Ph.D. and MA in History from Stanford University and a BA in History from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Atomic Tragedy: Henry L. Stimson and the Decision to Use the Bomb Against Japan (Cornell University Press, 2008) as well as articles dealing with nuclear targeting in World War II and the radiation effects of the atomic bomb. His most recent book, Out of Oakland: Black Panther Party Internationalism During the Cold War, was published by Cornell University Press in 2017. His current research project examines the countermobilization against Palestinian solidarity efforts at U.S. universities.

Sheryl Nestel holds a PhD from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto where she taught sociology and equity studies from 2000-2012and was the coordinator of the Office of Teaching Support. She is the author of numerous refereed journal articles, book chapters and reports on race and racism in the health professions and the author of Obstructed Labour: Race and Gender in the Re-emergence of Midwifery (UBC Press, 2007), winner of the Canadian Women’s Studies Annual Book Prize for 2007. She recently completed a ground- breaking research project, Unveilling the Chilly Climate: The Suppression of Speech on Palestine in Canada written with Rowan Gaudet, which surveys the impact of harassment, intimidation and the suppression of speech on Palestine on faculty, students and activists in Canada. She serves on the steering committees of the Jewish Faculty Network and the International Jewish Collective for Justice in Palestine. She is an Affiliated Scholar at New College, University of Toronto.

Miriam Osman is an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM).

Jillian Rogin (BA Hons, Trent University), (MES, York University), (LLB University of Windsor), LLM (Osgoode Hall, York University), PhD student (Osgoode Hall, York University) is an Associate Professor at the University of Windsor, Faculty of Law and a criminal defence lawyer. Her research interests include criminal law, legal clinic scholarship, critical race/anti-colonial theory including antisemitism and anti-Zionism. Jillian is an active member of Independent Jewish Voices (IJV), Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and the Jewish Faculty Network (JFN). Her PhD research focuses on Jewish advocacy in the enactment of hate speech legislation in Canada including changing conceptions of antisemitism over time.

Andrew Ross is a Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU. A contributor to the Guardian, the New York Times, The Nation, and Al Jazeera, he is the author or editor of more than twenty-five books, including Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel, Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing, Bird On Fire: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable City, The Celebration Chronicles: Life, Liberty and Property Values in Disney’s New Town, and Fast Boat to China: Lessons from Shanghai. His most recent book (co-authored with Tommaso Bardelli and Aiyuba Thomas), is Abolition Labor: The Fight to End Prison Slavery. He is also an organizer with USACBI and serves as secretary of the National Network of Faculty for Justice in Palestine. More about Ross can be found at https://andrewtross.com/

C. Heike Schotten (she/her) is Professor of Political Science and affiliated faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she teaches courses in political theory, feminist theory, and queer theory. Her research interests lie at the various and unlikely intersections of queer theory and Nietzsche Studies, which ground a wide array of publications focusing, most recently, on the theoretical presuppositions animating Right-wing ideologies, including but not limited to settler colonialism, anti-queerness, neoconservatism, “terrorism” policy and the “War on Terror”, anti-Muslim racism, Zionism, and trans-exclusionary feminism. She is a member of the founding collective of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism and the organizing collective of the US Campaign for Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI). She is the author of Queer Terror: Life, Death, and Desire in the Settler Colony (Columbia UP, 2018), Nietzsche’s Revolution: Décadence, Politics, and Sexuality (Palgrave, 2009), and multiple articles and book chapters in Nietzsche studies, critical political theory, feminist theory, and queer theory.

Lara Sheehi (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar, and a Research Fellow at the University of South Africa’s Institute for Social and Health Sciences. She is the founding faculty director of the Psychoanalysis and the Arab World Lab. Lara’s work takes up decolonial and anti-oppressive approaches to psychoanalysis, with a focus on liberation struggles in the Global South. She is co-author with Stephen Sheehi of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Routledge, 2022) which won the Middle East Monitor’s 2022 Palestine Book Award for Best Academic Book. Lara is the President of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (APA, Division 39), co-editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality and co-editor of Counterspace in Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. Lara is on the advisory board for the USA-Palestine Mental Health Network and the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism. She is currently working on a new book, From the Clinic to the Street: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures (Pluto Press).

Melissa F. Weiner is Professor of Sociology and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. As anti-Zionist Jewish historical sociologist drawing on critical race, decolonial, and Black and Indigenous theoretical traditions, her work primarily examines global racisms and colonialisms, particularly through legal and extralegal forms of quotidian white supremacy and material and epistemic erasures of historically marginalized peoples and their histories, cultures, and cosmologies. She has published extensively on this topic in the US and abroad, as well as historical and contemporary antisemitism in the US. Her next book examines the role of US Jews in Palestine’s colonization between 1917 and 1967.