A Conversation with Scholars of the Association of Palestinian and Jewish Academics

The George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention welcomes Yasmeen Daher(University of Potsdam) and Elad Lapidot (University of Lille) to talk about their scholarship and activism in the Association of Palestinian and Jewish Academics (PJA), based in Germany.

The PJA includes scholars born and raised in Palestine/Israel and in the diaspora, who are specialists of the histories, religions, cultures and politics of the region. They share a vision of equal rights and fair and democratic representation for the people in the region, and fight both anti-Palestinian racism and antisemitism.

Biographies: 

Yasmeen Daher’s research intersects political theory, ethics, grounded in a commitment to feminist, social, and anti-colonial movements. She held various teaching positions including Birzeit University (Palestine) and the Simone de Beauvoir Institute (Canada). 

Elad Lapidot is a Professor for Jewish Thought at Université de Lille. His work is guided by questions concerning the relation between knowledge and politics. In 2025, he published State of Others. Levinas and Decolonial Israel (Bloomington: IUP).