Nominees for BRISMES Council (2026-2029)

Clive Gabay

I am a Reader in International Politics at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), where I co-direct the Centre for the Study of Race, Class and Empire. Our events this year have included the book launch of Resisting Erasure by Adam Hanieh, Rafeef Ziadah and Rob Knox, as well as a public lecture by Professor Steven Salaita. I have taught at QMUL for 15 years. In that time I have witnessed the necessity of solidarity and comradeship in the face of creeping authoritarian management and the disciplining and criminalisation of pro-Palestine speech and action. I want to stand for Council because I want to help build on the incredible work that BRISMES does to support and protect vulnerable colleagues and collectives. I also believe that the work that BRISMES members do is central to understanding and confronting some of the most violent processes unfolding around the world today. Advocating for this work, and for BRISMES as a whole to have as loud a voice as possible, is central to why I want to stand for Council. In terms of my research, in recent years I have published on philosemitism in Britain and settler colonialism in Palestine. My current work centres on disrupting Zionist temporalities of settler progress via a family archive project. This project will be published by Rutgers University Press later this year with the title ‘A Family in Fragments: Race, Zionism and Retrieved Futures’. I also have an upcoming article in EJIR called ‘IR Theory in Times of Genocide’ which charges that the broad discipline of IR has been poorly equipped to contend with Palestinian demands for liberation and return.