A Response to “Re-Thinking the Figure of the Humanitarian: Sahar Khalifeh’s The End of Spring and the Function of Human Rights Narrative” (Postcolonial Text. 14:1, 2019)

Abstract

The article raises concerns about how Jefferess (2019) frames my work and that of the Centre for Global Education (CGE), in Palestine as an apolitical aid initiative that marginalises the voice of Palestinians and fails to locate their extreme poverty in the OPT as the outworking of Israeli state policies. The article replies in turn to each of the main criticisms raised by Jefferess (2019) about McCloskey (2018). It concludes that Jefferess (2019) has miss-represented the work of the Centre for Global Education and the role of development education as a form of community empowerment.