Crimea and Palestine: Parallels in Grief and Resistance
2025-08-21 , Anti-imperialist Tent 2

This talk explores the parallels between Zionist and Soviet settler colonialism in Palestine and Crimea, tracing how indigenous erasure and resistance have taken shape across both contexts. Through a historical lens, the session reflects on shared grief, layered dispossession, and the enduring struggle for self-determination.


Please describe your contribution shortly (1-2 sentences):

This talk explores the parallels between Zionist and Soviet settler colonialism in Palestine and Crimea, tracing how indigenous erasure and resistance have taken shape across both contexts. Through a historical lens, the session reflects on shared grief, layered dispossession, and the enduring struggle for self-determination.

How many people can take part in your contribution?:

unlimited

Will your contribution deal with movement history?:

A part of the contribution will be about movement history.

What is your preferred language to hold the contribution in?:

English

What is the linguistical level of your contribution? Is it in easy read/plain English?:

C1: Specialist language skills

Is prior knowledge required for the content?:

-

Who is your contribution (especially) aimed at?:

No specific aim

Resistance Connections UA is a Berlin-based activist group committed to material and political solidarity with anti-authoritarian, feminist, and left-wing forces in Ukraine and beyond. Formed in response to the normalization of Ukrainian erasure within the German left, we work to confront russian imperialism as an ongoing colonial formation - and to resist the geopolitical distortions that flatten struggles for liberation into competing state allegiances. As co-organizers of the anti-imperialist tent, we aim to hold space for situated, plural, and non-campist solidarities - politicizing what has been silenced, and refusing empire in all its forms.

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