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Writings of Abdaljawad Omar

June 1, 2024
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Abdaljawad Omar is a writer, analyst, and lecturer based in Ramallah, Palestine. He has lectured in the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at Birzeit University and writes extensively in Arabic. In English Abboud has contributed to Electronic Intifada, Mondoweiss, and Ebb Magazine among other outlets.

Omar holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences from Birzeit University where he focused on the formations of Palestinian resistance in the Great Intifadas, 1987-2015. Omar has a forthcoming book titled “Freeing Palestine: The Making of the Palestinian Resistance,” through Verso Palestine Pamphlets due out Spring 2025.

Aside from all his writings and interviews below, you can follow more of his academic writing on Academia.edu or read some of his other writings over on Aboud Hamayel blogspot.

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Academic articles

Arabic writings

More from Abdul-Jawad Omar.

Online articles

Interviews

Millennials Art Killing Capitalism Live! – Videos

Electronic Intifada – videos (Abdaljawad Omar is also a contributor on Electronic Intifada where he gives great analysis)

Other video interviews & talks

  • عبد الجواد حمايل – هبة بلا تنظيم: الفعل المقاوم كحدث عارض (Protest without Organization: The Resistance Act as an Incident). Muwatin Institute – Birzeit University. 2021 (?) Video with English translation voiceover.
    • The day on which the martyr Muhammad Abu Khdeir was burnt alive was a defining moment, not only because it turned into the beginning of the war that showed the depth of the change and development of the resistance structure in the coastal plain of Gaza, but because the events that took place in 2014 are a long prelude to what will happen in the following year. That is, at the end of the ninth month of 2015, when events continued and intensified so that the resistance act turned into an intense state that quickly acquired the rank of “the uprising” referring to the intensity and new forms of the resistance actions. The uprising did not turn into a massive intifada that included wide groups and layers of the Palestinian society. It did not fail to achieve its political statement rejecting defeat and its political forms; a statement studded with the blood of martyrs, which we can discern from the successive commandments that circled the space of the uprising and its succession of events, and practices that took the form of direct actions from zero distance. The paper seeks to show the relationship between the form of social and political blocs after the demise of the second Intifada, the role of the new production relations in accelerating the process of social atomization, and what this social atomization produced from the transformation of the act of resistance from an organized form linked to various political organizations to an Individual or atomic form. This form takes a social dimension, but it is social at the level of need for the production of the act, and not on a political level that is linked to thinking about the relationship between the act and its political outcomes. In this regard, there are three elements of analysis: the first is related to the form and nature of the political economy in Palestine after the second Intifada, and in particular the penetration and expansion of the Palestinian bureaucracy, with what it means of a utilitarian economic relationship between the bureaucrat and bureaucracy, and between the ruling elites, their social and political vision and their commodification of political impotence, i.e. producing political impotence as a commodity, especially concerning the funders and the colonizer. Second, the paper discusses the economic relationship associated with the inflation of consumption and its class diversity in an effort to give the growing class polarization tangible physical forms that are linked to the locations, patterns and identities formed in the consumption processes. The third element of the analysis will discuss the dynamics of trust as a social concept that plays an important role in the possibility of the emergence of an anti-colonial political bloc and the role of cooperation, censorship and punishment in the disintegration of the social concept of trust, and thus in creating an additional barrier to the rise of political blocs capable of organized action in the Palestinian context. The paper will also address the dynamics of action in its relationship with colonial structures and address the role of fantasy in the production and continuity of the act of resistance; the relationship between this continuity and the incubators of love and trust that appeared through friends and relatives doing joint or successive actions; attempts to suppress the uprising through multiple strategies that evoked arrest and abuse of the resisting body; targeting the homes of the perpetrators as a social price for their acts; and coercion through the creation of a social discourse around security on social media and opening the doors of work permits directed at specific social groups, this aimed at creating a form of Palestinianness and movement control systems. In short, the uprising of individual acts expressed the ability of the resistance actions to appear despite the complex array of obstacles, but its form was symptomatic. The social and political changes have accelerated as a result of containing the strength of the resistance movement in the West Bank after the second Intifada. The acceleration of social atomization through a set of policies, the physical and moral elimination of the resistance movement made it possible for the emergence of a political – class alliance (the neoliberal social movement) based on the commodification of impotence.
  • هل تتحمل المقاومة مسؤولية الكارثة في غزة؟ بودكاست جديد مع عبد الجواد حمايل – Shorfat Palestine. November 19, 2024
  • The Politics of Resistance with Abdaljawad Omar | Kalam Podcast. November 1, 2024.
  • A Century of Ruptures: The History and Practices of Palestinian Resistances, with Abdaljawad Omar | Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Auto Workers’ Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Caucus. October 11, 2024
  • On Martyrdom and Life: Conversation with Palestinian writer Abdaljawad Omar | Palestine Committee Zurich and Kollektiv Doykait. July 7, 2024.
  • Palestinian Resistance and the Path to Liberation | People’s Conference for Palestine. May 25, 2024.
  • The Martyrdom of Walid Daqqa w/ Rana Barakat and Abdaljawad Omar. The East is a Podcast, May 2024
  • Abboud Hamayel interrogates the perpetual state of war Israel imposes on Palestinians, Pretty Heady Stuff podcast, March 17, 2024
  • جنون المستعمرة – بودكاست الكرمل مع الباحث عبد الجواد عمر
    الكرمل – AlCarmel (2023)
  • A Time of Build-Up: Knowledge-Production Initiatives for Palestine… A Roundtable on the Occasion of the Launch of Maktabat Sabil, September 25, 2023.

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