Today’s episode features a recording of Dr Alana Lentin speaking at our October 2023 conference titled Battling the IHRA Definition: Theory and Activism. Alana Lentin, also a founding collective member of the Institute, works on critical theorizations of race, racism, and antiracism. Her talk is titled “Zionist Claims of Indigeneity in the Racial Regime of Nativism.”

Dr Lentin explains how the IHRA definition fits into the broader landscape of repression within the so-called war on Critical Race Theory or the war on woke. She looks at Zionist claims of Jewish Indigeneity to Palestine in conjunction with Indigenous politics and settler colonial context of Australia. In October 2023, during our conference, Australia held a referendum called Indigenous Voice to Parliament which if passed would have established an advisory body comprised of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, to represent the views of Indigenous communities in Australian parliament. This referendum, that Dr Lentin references, ultimately failed to pass.

You can view the video of Dr Lentin's talk here.

Repost from July 2024.