Judeo-Christian Civilizational Politics After Palestine and Iran

Since the second half of the 20th century, the rhetoric of Judeo-Christian civilization has dominated Western international politics. This civilizational discourse was mobilized to support the totalizing construction of enemies from Communism during the Cold War to Islam during the War on Terror and finds its current expression in the imaginary of "Islamo-Leftism," which merges both. In the context of the genocide in Palestine and the war on Iran, this rhetoric appears as violent as ever, while simultaneously showing cracks from the mainstreaming of Islamophobic and antisemitic Christian nationalism. This panel will both interrogate current formulations of the Judeo-Christian in the context of Palestine and Iran, and survey the possibilities for alternative imaginaries emerging from grassroots organizing against the genocide and war.