Sabol Lecture 2024

Dr. Omer is presenting “An Ethnography of Jewish Solidarity with Palestinians” on Oct. 17, 2024, at 7 p.m. Her research focuses on religion, violence, and peacebuilding, Palestine, Israel, Jewish studies, decoloniality and religion, and religion and politics.

She is the author of Days of Awe: Reimagining Jewishness in Solidarity with Palestinians and When Peace Is Not Enough: How the Israeli Peace Camp Thinks about Religion, Nationalism, and Justice. She is also a co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding and a co-author of Religious Nationalism: A Reference Handbook. Omer has also published articles in various peer-reviewed journals and was awarded a 2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship.