Communication, Culture & Critique is proud to publish its first thematic issue: "Palestine as Communicative Epistemology." Volume 19, Issue 1 (March 2026). Editors: Paula Chakravartty, Karma R. Chavez, Dina Matar. White letters on red background.

Communication Culture & Critique An Official Journal of the International Communication Association Volume 19, Number 1 March 2026 Special Issue: Palestine as Communicative Epistemology Guest Editors: Paula Chakravartty, Karma R. Chavez, and Dina Matar Forum Why Palestine as communicative epistemology? PAULA CHAKRAVARTTY, KARMA R. CHAAVEZ, AND DINA MATAR The narrative struggle for Palestinian liberation An interview with Prof. Noura Erakat NABIL HASSEIN, MARIA PAZ ALMENARA, AND NADINE FATTALEH Bitification and the Gaza genocide HELGA TAWIL-SOURI On Palestinians’ insistence that Palestinian journalism matters AMAHL BISHARA Fashioning the keffiyeh as a Palestinian anti-colonial medium BERNARDITA M. YUNIS VARAS AND SARAH CATHRYN MAJED DWEIK A breakup letter with media studies NABIL ECHCHAIBI Resonance, or sympathetic vibration: A Black feminist ethic for Palestine VICTORIA NETANUS XAKA Original Articles Framing Gaza: Medical Journals and the destruction of Healthcare OSAMA TANOUS, YARA ASI, WEEAM HAMMOUDEH, DAVID MILLS, AND BRAM WISPELWEY Palestine as a laboratory: Aerial technologies, colonial violence and an origin of information-weaponry systems SEBASTIAN JAMES ROSE AND BURCE CELIK How to unsee Gaza: Israel’s visual politics in a time of genocide REBECCA L. STEIN Witnessing undone: Silence, noise and the enabling of genocide in Gaza OMAR AL-GHAZZI Algorithmic censorship, power, and resistance in the Arab region: A case study of pro-Palestinian content TAMER FARAG, FLORIAN PRIMIG, AND HANAN BADR Book Review The decolonial cautions of Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization GOLDIE OSURI

Our Aim: Our goal is to rethink how knowledge about Palestine is produced and shared. We aim to move beyond framing Palestine as merely a 'conflict' or 'laboratory' and instead highlight the lived realities of colonial violence and media complicity. By centering anti-colonial thinkers like Edward Said, Aime Cesaire, Fanon, and Sherene Seikaly, we seek to reveal which facts are communicated, and which are silenced. Ultimately, we encourage scholars to rethink methods in understanding and representing Palestine. White letters on background image featuring destroyed buildings in Gaza.

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The Communication, Culture & Critique editorial collective is proud to publish our first thematic issue:

PALESTINE AS COMMUNICATIVE EPISTEMOLOGY

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NDP Leader Urges Action on Study Permits for Gazan Students – April 14, 2026 At a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, NDP Leader Avi Lewis and NDP MP Jenny Kwan are joined by representatives from a number of groups to discuss the filing of mandamus applications by Ga...

130+ Palestinian grad students admitted to 🇨🇦 universities are trapped in a 23-month limbo. IRCC is demanding biometrics from a war zone—a move that is both unrealistic and unjust.

The precedent exists: we did this for Ukraine & Syria. We must do it now. #cdnpoli #Gaza

www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...

UAlberta Charter Challenge SUMMARY:

@UAlberta sued for violating protestors' Charter freedoms of expression, assembly, and association. This is a high-stakes case for Canadian democracy. sites.google.com/view/ualbert...
@univcan.ca #cdnpoli #FreePalestine

How Iran's universities became a target of US-Israeli attacks Some 30 universities came under fire in what Iranian academics and students say is an attempt to erase sovereignty and technological autonomy

How Iran's universities became a target of US-Israeli attacks - www.middleeasteye.net/news/how-iran-universiti...

“We always seem to have money for war. But not to feed the poor.”

Today marks 78 years since the massacre of Deir Yassin, an atrocity that came to define the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948 to establish the state of Israel on stolen Palestinian land.

From Palestine to Lebanon, A War Without Limits and the Wages of Impunity The seventh Israeli invasion of Lebanon is being waged in both the shadow of genocide in Gaza and within the world that Israel’s permission to commit genocide has created. This is a world where intern...

Anyone trying to understand Israel in Lebabon over decades, read Maya Mikdashi

"In Lebanon, Israel’s war of impunity is being waged against three fronts: the battlefield, the country’s social fabric and its political society"

These attacks kill & displace while trying to foment sectarian violence.

Heartfelt Congratulations!!

Last summer, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum quietly removed online materials about American racism and canceled a workshop on the “fragility of democracy,” according to a recently released Politico report.

Among the Separatists | The Tyee I wanted to learn the true target of their angry dreams. What I heard made me tremble for the Alberta I love.

As I've argued in the past, this movement is led by patriarchal white supremacists who glorify settler colonialism. Many are Christian fundamentalists. A following of 30% of voters is significant, and they are influential within the governing party.
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Grateful to the GHSCN for organizing this forthcoming critical public event "The Nakba after Genocide." Mark your calendars.

Thank you so much, dear Viola🙏

As a Palestinian, I stand in solidarity with the Iranian people. Here’s why History teaches us that the West's promises of caring for our 'freedoms' are empty because imperialism wants control.

Ghada's writing has the brilliance of diamonds that dissolve into tears.
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

‘Systemic’ probe into B.C. police sexual misconduct announced by commissioner Former British Columbia police officer Helen Irvine says she was driven out of the profession by a “weird” culture tolerant of sexual harassment — but now she’s hopeful change is on the way.

Policing *is* sexual violence

"sexualized conduct in police workplaces has been a recurring issue that I’ve seen far too often... He said using office’s systemic investigation power for the first time would allow it to examine issues with broad impact"

www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Like a phoenix, Palestinian students in Gaza launch Israeli Apartheid Week 2026 at the Solidarity Media Center of the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate.

Join #IsraeliApartheidWeek now.

How RCMP spies infiltrated the 1970s Indigenous rights movement | CBC News A CBC Indigenous investigation has found the Cold War-era RCMP Security Service had a widespread and intrusive surveillance operation targeting at least 30 legitimate Indigenous political organization...

Newly declassified RCMP Security Service files of nearly 6,000 pages (!)show how Canada and Liberal govt infiltrated & sought to disrupt Indigenous organizations in 1970s, in an extensive program of covert surveillance, wiretapping, informants and countersubversion.

www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

The very political ‘neutrality’ campaign to exclude equity, diversity, and social justice from higher education A coterie of Canadian academics claiming to support “merit” in university hiring have sued their employers, submitted briefs to parliamentary committees, co-authored reports for conservative think tan...

canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

The Lies That Sell the Iran War YouTube video by The Intercept

Israeli missiles razed entire apartment blocks in central Beirut this week. More than 1 million Lebanese people have been displaced.

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Contesting Imperialism(s) - Central and East European ISA conference in Sarajevo, BiH, June 17-19, 2026. Deadline for proposals - April 10, 2026. There will be a pre-conference workshop for young scholars. For info, please visit: ceeisa2026.com

Absolutely horrific.

Canada’s massive border bill, C12, has been adopted after third reading at Senate.

C-12 will become the country's largest machinery of deportation: deporting refugees without hearings, retroactive bars, and mass status cancellation.

A mirror of anti-migrant ICE violence.

Iran Resources This resource list was produced in March 2026, less than one week after the US and Zionist entity launched attacks against Iran — manufactured through lies, orientalist propaganda, sanctions, regime-c...

Weaving our Worlds has compiled resources and diverse left perspectives from and on Iran. Rather than reduce Iran to various intra-left ideological debates, these provide analysis based in the context, specificity and history.

www.weavingourworlds.ca/iran-resourc...

Media Release: Carney Government Chooses Trump and Arming Genocide Over International Law as Liberals Vote Down "No More Loopholes" Act - World BEYOND War The Arms Embargo Now Coalition condemns the Liberal government today after the House of Commons voted down Bill C-233, the No More Loopholes Act, legislation that would have closed a major loophole.…

Parliament rejected a bill to close the loophole in Canada’s arms exports to the U.S. The result? Canadian weapons components can still move through U.S. supply chains into Israel’s wars.

UN says 3.2 million people now displaced in Iran as a result of US-Israeli war Humanitarian needs look set to increase as the war continues, jeopardising millions of already vulnerable refugees

UN says 3.2 million people now displaced in Iran as a result of US-Israeli war - www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-32-million-peo...

Cancer Haunts Neighbors of Canada’s Oil Sands Wastelands

The NYT reminding everyone whose lives are sacrificed by our governments so that oil and gas company shareholders can get richer.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/h...

🐋 74. That's how many Southern Resident killer whales remain on the planet.

These animals depend on the Salish Sea to feed and socialize — but underwater noise from ships and marine traffic makes it harder for them to hunt, communicate, and survive. 🧵

מח״ט הבקעה לתושבים: ״הפלסטינים צפויים להתפנות משטחי C״ אל"ם גלעד שריקי סייר בקהילות פלסטיניות והזהיר מפני הריסות בתים ופינוי משטחי C. צה"ל: הסיור נועד "לתת תחושת ביטחון לתושבים״

A Israeli brigade commander told Palestinians in the Jordan valley that the IDF plans to remove all Palestinians currently living in "Area C" - that's 60% of the West Bank - within a year.

IDF spokesperson was asked for comment and did not deny this.

www.ha-makom.co.il/area-c-evacu...

We published '"At the Dangerous Crossroads of Europe.' Fascistization of Wartime Slovakia (1939–1945) as Inward Colonialism" by Nina Paulovicova (@ninjak.bsky.social) on 15 February 2026: doi.org/10.1080/1462...

Thank you so much!