Queer lives in Palestine: settler colonialism and resistance In conversation with Omar Khatib

After many years of organizing and research in a context marked by extreme violence under a brutal settler-colonial regime, Omar Khatib speaks on queerness, Palestine, and genocide with staff from St Andrews. The conversation grapples with the complex contradictions of this reality and invites collective reflection at a moment when imperialism and colonialism are intensifying. Settler-colonialism, through systematic erasure of land, history, and culture, shapes every aspect of life, leaving deep scars on communities and identities. This conversation explores how queerness, resistance, and survival persist in the face of such ongoing violence.

Omar Khatib is a queer writer and organiser from Jerusalem, Palestine. Omar's work focuses on gender, sexuality, and resistance under settler colonialism. Omar has organised across Palestine for over nine years, including six years with the leading Palestinian queer organisation, alQaws, and was detained for 16 months in Israeli prisons during the genocide.