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248 Spring 2022

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Amal Naser

Amal Naser is a Palestinian organiser living and working on unceded Gadigal Land. She is currently studying a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at UNSW. She has strong interest in the intersection of the law and the rights of Indigenous persons.

Articles by Amal Naser:

15 June 202229 July 2022

Indigenous there, settler here: battling dispossession on stolen land

Amal Naser

The Nakba is ongoing. However, our story of dispossession is not unique, but rather forms part of the many stories of Indigenous populations being uprooted, murdered and having their lands destroyed by violent colonial regimes, including the land we live on.

17 March 20225 November 2022

Reframing the conversation on Palestine after Amnesty’s ‘apartheid’ report: the case for abolition

Jeanine Hourani and Amal Naser

In the context of Palestine, failing to adopt an abolitionist lens and, instead, focusing on apartheid isolates the Palestinian question from the broader settler colonial project of which it is subjected, and ignores what we know about the use of prisons and incarceration in older settler colonial projects.