Ohio University published a research paper titled “Naming as Survival: Law, Water and Settler Colonialism in Palestine” by the researcher Abigail Rosemary Mulligan. The research focuses on the impact of settler colonialism’s denial of water resources to Palestinians. The researcher demonstrated how the international framework of occupation that the UNHRC has adopted, has perpetuated a “routinized, ritualized maintenance of the status quo and entrenched Palestine in violent subjugation. Further, any attempt at a resolution between Israel and Palestine must involve a reckoning with uncommon goals of the two nations, as well as the various positionings of power and understanding of the settler colonial regime.” Based on the researcher’s Master thesis, the article demonstrates how literature is a “tool of resistance, survival and imagining for Palestinians by providing a platform for collective memory and perspective to be voiced. This project highlights the necessity of naming settler colonial violence for what it is, if Palestinian suffering is to cease.” For further details, click here.