My research is situated at the intersection of decolonial studies, social movement studies, and political theory. I am interested in unearthing and deconstructing the colonial patterns that still inform dominant ways of thinking, being, and relating to each other across difference. My current focus is on dynamics of "asymmetric solidarity", i.e. solidarity between groups characterized by racialized power differentials, and how these dynamics at once entrench and defy perduring colonial structures. After having focused on Jewish-Israeli solidarity for Palestinian rights during my PhD, I am now expanding my geographical focus to relationships of asymmetric solidarity in other settler colonial and postcolonial contexts.

As part of the project 'White Solidarity and Native North American Rights in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe, 1960s-1990s,' led by Academy Research Fellow Reetta Humalajoki, we are examining the work of white activists for Native North American rights to understand the limitations of past white solidarity efforts and question how effective decolonial solidarity can be built. The project combines archival research, oral history interviews, and literary analysis. Theoretically, it draws on insights from settler colonial studies, indigenous studies, and critical whiteness studies. 

In addition, I am working on my book manuscript, Imperfect Struggles: Israeli Activists, Asymmetric Solidarity, and the Decolonization of Palestine. Based on my PhD dissertation, the book takes the case of Jewish-Israeli activists in solidarity with Palestinians to offer a theory of solidarity from positions of power that breaks new ground across studies of social movements, decoloniality, counter-hegemony, and the methodology of critical research. Empirically, the book draws on over a hundred interviews with activists from different generations, participant observation to their political actions and everyday life, and the analysis of documents written by and about their organizations.