The Center for Racial Justice is very proud to sponsor the second annual Possibilities of Palestinian Refusal: Against Disciplining Knowledge and Movement series! Please join us for the following talk with Omar Zahzah- Virtual Palestine: Digital Settler Colonialism and Palestinian Resistance.

In this talk, Omar Zahzah will elaborate upon the concept of digital settler colonialism, which captures how the internet is weaponized to fortify Israeli settler colonialism—often with the complicity of US Big Tech companies. Building off of his newly published book Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle (Censored Press/Seven Stories Press, 2025), the presentation will also describe the contingent role that digital technologies have played in advancing the Palestinian struggle, and how Palestinians and their allies continue to resist censorship and repression in spite of an increasingly hostile digital status quo.