Open Letter opposing criminalisation of the slogan "Globalise the Intifada"

This statement is collectively sponsored by the International State Crime Initiative, Protest is Not Terrorism, Defend Our Juries, the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP), the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES), and University and College Workers For Palestine. It is based on a slightly longer statement, published simultaneously on the UCW4Palestine and Protest is Not Terrorism websites, which includes a few historical details and additional hyperlinks.

We the undersigned are profoundly alarmed by growing attempts by politicians and public authorities to mischaracterise the phrase “globalise the intifada” as a call for violence against Jewish people. Calls to criminalise the slogan on this basis are unfounded and dangerous.

As the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) has recently explained, the Arabic word intifada simply means “shaking off” or “uprising.” Historically, it has been used to describe a wide range of popular struggles against injustice, especially mass movements opposing colonial domination, military occupation, and authoritarian rule. The word’s range of reference includes uprisings in Iraq, Bahrain, Lebanon, Western Sahara, and North Africa; Arabic-speaking scholars have also used the term to describe events such as the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland, the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and the 1976 Soweto Uprising. Given its distinctive versatility and staying power it’s not surprising that intifada, as Edward Said observed in 1989, has proved to be “the only Arabic word to enter the vocabulary of twentieth-century world politics.” 

Prime Minister Keir Starmer tells us that “if you stand alongside people who say ‘globalise the intifada’, you are calling for terrorism against Jews, and people who use that phrase should be prosecuted.” To portray the slogan “globalise the intifada” as inherently violent or terrorist, however, is a racist distortion of Arabic language and Palestinian political expression. Historically, intifada has referred to broad forms of popular refusal and collective mobilisation, not to any single tactic or to an endorsement of violence. 

For these reasons, we emphatically reject attempts by Keir Starmer and others to conflate calls to “globalise the intifada”—or the Palestine solidarity movement more broadly—with antisemitism or violence against Jewish people. There is no demonstrable link between this slogan and attacks on Jewish communities, whether in London, Manchester, Sydney, or elsewhere. To claim otherwise is to instrumentalise concerns about antisemitism in order to suppress Palestinian solidarity.

This mischaracterisation clearly forms part of a broader effort to overcome opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its policies of demolition, forced eviction, and annexation across Palestine and Lebanon and to shield the UK government’s complicity from public scrutiny.

The targeting of emancipatory slogans and protest activity does not serve public safety but rather restricts democratic opposition to mass violence, obstructs academic critique, and silences anti-colonial scholarship. It denies Palestinians the “permission to narrate” that is essential to the history and future of any oppressed people.

The consequences of this rhetoric are very serious. Treating “globalise the intifada” as inherently criminal establishes a dangerous precedent for the policing of language, culture, and political identity, particularly for Palestinians and those who stand in solidarity with them. It undermines fundamental rights to freedom of expression and peaceful protest, while fostering a climate in which legitimate political speech is surveilled, stigmatised, and punished. It also reinforces longstanding forms of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim repression already embedded in programmes such as Prevent and in routine forms of police harassment.

As teachers and scholars concerned with the history and politics of Palestine and West Asia, and with broader questions of justice and ethics, we know what “globalise the intifada” actually means in practice and in context. We also recognise that, in the face of Israel’s ongoing oppression of Palestinians and the complicity of governments that enable it, their liberation will require popular resistance and mobilisation on a global scale. We therefore affirm the unequivocal right of those who support this slogan to foreground it in their research, discuss it in their classrooms, and chant it in the streets.

Signed (in alphabetical order, as of 2 July 2026) 

Sara Ababneh, Lecturer in International Relations, University of Sheffield, UK 

Madeline-Sophie Abbas, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Lancaster University, UK 

Rabab Abdulhadi, Director and Senior Scholar, Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies, San Francisco State University, US 

Malek Abisaab, Professor of History, McGill University, Canada 

Giuseppe Acconcia, Professor of History of International Relations, Università degli studi di Milano, Italy  

Alina Achenbach, PhD researcher International Relations, University of Groningen, The Netherlands 

Jared Ahmad, Lecturer, University of Sheffield, UK 

Dohra Ahmad, Professor of English, St. John's University, US 

Ahmad Shah Ahmadi, English Teacher, MIC, Ireland  

Dina Al-Kassim, Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada 

Hayat Al-Khatib, Professor of Applied Linguistics, Arab Open University, Lebanon 

Umberto Albarella, Professor of Zooarchaeology, University of Sheffield, UK 

Anne Alexander, researcher and UCU activist, London, UK 

Ruba Ali Al-Hassani, SJD Candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada 

Joanna Allan, Associate Professor of Human Geography, Northumbria University, UK 

Jamie Allinson, Senior Lecturer, Politics and International Relations, University of Edinburgh, Scotland 

Adey Almohsen, Senior Lecturer in History, Grinnell College, USA 

Schirin Amir-Moazami, Professor of Islam in Europe, FU Berlin, Germany  

Luis Andueza, Lecturer in International Development, King's College London, UK 

Sundari Anitha, Chair in Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, UK 

Maria Aristodemou, Professor of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK 

Walter Armbrust, Professor of Modern Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford, UK 

Deborah Armintor, Principal Lecturer, University of North Texas, USA 

Ellie Armon Azoulay, Leverhulme early career research fellow, Durham University, UK 

Saurabh Arora, Associate Professor in Technology and Innovation for Development, University of Sussex, UK 

Marika Asgari, Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Newcastle University, UK 

Yusef Atta, Administrative Staff, University of Oxford, UK

Nic Avery, Research Fellow, Work and Organisational Studies, University of Sydney, Australia 

Feryal Awan, Lecturer in Media and Postcolonial Studies, UCL, UK 

Sandra Babcock, Clinical Professor, Cornell Law School, United States 

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Ray Bush, Professor Emeritus African Studies and Dev Politics, University of Leeds, UK 

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Martin Kear, Lecturer in International Relations, The University of Sydney, Australia  

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sang kil, professor fired for palestine, san jose state university, usa 

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Elisabeth Weber, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States 

Cecilia Wee, Tutor (Research), MFA Communication, School of Communication, Royal College of Art, UK 

Melissa Weiner, Professor of Sociology and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, College of the Holy Cross, USA 

Lynn Welchman, Professor of Law, SOAS University of London, UK 

David Whyte, Professor of Law, Queen Mary University of London, UK 

Jessica Whyte, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of New South Wales, Australia 

Ben Wiedel-Kaufmann, Lecturer in Art History, The Open University, UK 

Richard Wild, Principal Lecturer in Criminology, University of Greenwich, UK 

Ralph Wilde, Professor of International Law, Faculty of Laws, University College London, University of London, UK 

Hans Wilke, Assistant Professor, University of Groningen, The Netherlands 

Katherine Wilson, Adjunct Professor, Fordham University, USA 

Ümit Yildiz, Lecturer in Education and VP UM UCU, University of Manchester, UK 

Heba Youssef, Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Brighton, UK 

Dogan Yuksel, Research Fellow, The Open University, UK 

Yazid Zahda, Researcher, Independent, Palestine/North Macedonia 

Callen Zimmerman, Adjunct Profesor, PhD Student, Stony Brook University (SUNY), US 

Slavoj Žižek, Senior Researcher, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia  Alenka Zupancic, Professor of Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, Ljubljana, Slovenia