Palestine and Taiwan

The Society for Sinophone Studies Stands with Palestine

On June 15th, 2021, the Society for Sinophone Studies issued its Statement in Solidarity with Palestine. The academic organization joins the unprecedented wave of transnational scholars who recognize and oppose the targeted and systematic dispossession, confinement, and forcible separation of Palestinians by the State of Israel, which Human Rights Watch has condemned as guilty of the crimes against humanity that constitute apartheid...

Gaza Massacre Has Lessons For Taiwan

Images of the killing of Palestinians on the Israel-Gaza border during protests against the American Embassy relocation to Jerusalem have been shocking for many in Taiwan. However, instead of looking at this tragic set of events merely as a tragedy in a distant, faraway land, perhaps there are lessons from this to be drawn for Taiwan and connections to be drawn between Taiwan's own struggles and Palestine's plight...