Maya Mikdashi
Overview
Mikdashi has published, on both social media and in scholarly articles, accusations that Israel is a colonial state. She has drawn specific parallels between Palestinians and Native Americans, labeling both Israelis and Americans as "Settler Colonialists."
Mikdashi is a professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University.
Demonizing Israel
On July, 23, 3014, Mikdashi published an article in which she stated that "The Israeli war machine, much like the US war machine in Afghanistan or Iraq, does not protect Palestinian queers and women and children. It kills them, maims them, and dispossesses them alongside their loved ones--for the simple reason that they are Palestinian, and thus able to be killed with impunity while the whole world watches."
In a joint interview with Sherene Seikaly that was published on May 16, 2013, Mikdashi stated that "the United States and Israel are at different stages of settlement and genocide."
In another article, published on August 9, 2012, Mikdashi accused Israel of constructing a "regime of legal apartheid."
Depicting Israel as a Colonial State
On February 15, 2017, Mikdashi tweeted: "#trumpbibi press conference is like a crash course in #settlercolonialism settler alliance."
On October 25, 2014, Mikdashi was the featured speaker of an event, hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), entitled: "What is Settler Colonialism?" The event’s purpose was to highlight the ostensible commonalities between the treatment of Palestinians under Israel and the treatment of indigenous peoples in North America.
Mikdashi made the same claim in an article published on July 17, 2012, stating that "It was only after I understood that Israel is a settler colony that I came to see the United States as the same."
In an article published on July 23, 2014, Mikdashi accused Israel of colonizing, quarantining and creating an "open-air prison" in Gaza.
Later in the same article, Mikdashi stated that "Historic Palestine, from the river to the sea, is an Israeli settler colony at varying stages of success."
Again in an article published on August 9, 2012, Mikdashi wrote extensively about Israel’s "ongoing settler colonialism of historic Palestine."
Comparing Palestinians to Holocaust Victims
In an article published on February 16, 2017, Mikdashi compared Palestinians to Holocaust victims. Mikdashi wrote that "when images and articles began emerging evoking the Jewish Holocaust alongside the movement of Syrian refugees in Greece, Hungary, and Germany--I thought about Palestine, about 1948."
In the same article, Mikdashi went on to say that "I thought about how ironic and yet strangely fitting it was that the ghosts of both Palestinian ethnic cleansing and the Jewish Holocaust followed the same national bodies into different but tragically joined historical contexts."
Social Media and Weblinks
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Twitter:https://twitter.com/mayamikdashi
- Status:
- Professor
- University:
- Rutgers
- Organizations:
- BDS
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- Last Modified:
- 06/23/2025
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