These frameworks and infrastructures are subject to particular dynamics in a digital context which the panel will explore. As international legal institutions such as the ICC and ICJ intervene in unprecedented ways, we ask how these shifts recalibrate the global framing of Palestinian liberation—legitimizing perspectives from the Global South while also reinforcing imperial modes of governance. Concurrently, other vital global institutions, including universities, have become key battlegrounds where students and faculty engaged in Palestine solidarity efforts face increasing policing, surveillance, and repression. From bureaucratic restrictions and disciplinary actions to targeted harassment, the infrastructures of repression extend beyond state mechanisms, infiltrating educational spaces that have historically been sites of radical critique.  

Resistant Energy, a forthcoming booklet published by the Institute for Technology in the Public Interest (TITiPI), forms the starting point of this event. The booklet compiles a year-long investigation into archival visuals of infrastructure and apartheid—from South Africa to Palestine—exploring the material and symbolic energies that sustain resistance. Our discussion explores the social and digital infrastructures that resist imperial forms of governance and institutional repression, mobilizing networks of solidarity and counter-surveillance. In this event, we hope to situate contemporary struggles within longer histories of decolonial resistance, tracing how infrastructures of power are both dismantled and repurposed in the fight for justice.