Sai Englert
Assistant Professor
- Name
- Dr. S.P. Englert
- Telephone
- 071 5272738
- s.p.englert@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-8272-2538
I am an Assistant Professor in political economy of the Middle East and North Africa. My research interests include: political economy, settler colonialism, and labour movements. More specifically, I have researched Labour Zionism, Palestinian Labour, Israel's regional integration, and its natural gas extraction in the Mediterranean. I have also written on contemporary antisemitism and its political (mis)uses.
More information about Sai Englert
Fields of interest
My research interests include: Political Economy, settler colonialism, and labour movements. More specifically, I have researched Labour Zionism, Palestinian Labour, Israel's regional normalisation, and its natural gas extraction in the Meidterranean. I have also written on contemporary antisemitism and its political (mis)uses.
Description of research
My post-PhD research focused on the contemporary role of the Labour Zionsit movement in the colonisation of Palestine, and - more broadly - social relations in settler colonial contexts. I have published a book on the subject - Settler Colonialism: an Introduction (Pluto Press), co-edited another - From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine (Verso) -, and am currently finalising a new monograph: Striking Settlers - Israeli Workers and the Colonisation of Palestine (Verso).
My next project focusses on Israel's regional integration. It engages with the consequences of the discovery of large reserves of natural gas in the East Mediterranean, Israel’s normalisation with its neighbours (especially Jordan and Egypt), its growing economic and diplomatic rapprochement with GCC states - primarily the UAE -, and the ways in which normalisation facilitates the acceleration and deepening of its settler colonial project in Palestine. In addition, the project reflects on how this growing internationalisation of Israel’s economic interest has created new avenues for resistance and international solidarity with the Palestinian people.
Short Curriculum Vitae
2013-2018: PhD in Development Studies, School of Oriental & African Studies, Title: The Defeat of Hebrew Labour? Neoliberalism, Settler Colonialism, & the Workers’ Movement in Israel.
2010 -2011: MA in Social & Political Thought, Sussex University
2007-2010: BA in English Literature & Drama, Sussex University
Assistant Professor
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Institute for Area Studies
- Englert Sai (2026), Settler Colonialism and the (Re)production of Capitalism. In: Jokubas Salyga and Kayhan Valadbaygi (Ed.), Mode of Production and the Historiography of Capitalism: Gender, Race and Eurocentrism: Bristol University Press. 271-288.
- Weizman Elian Englert Sai (2026), Brothers in Arms: Liberal genocide and intra-settler conflict in Israel, Race & Class 67(4): 26-52.
- Englert S. 11 March 2026, Settler Colonialism and the Israel-Palestine Conflict. International Insights [podcast].
- Englert S. 29 January 2025, Making Sense of Settler Colonialism . Return to Bandung [podcast].
- Englert S. (2 May 2025), In the midst of despair over Gaza, a regional struggle for freedom is brewing. Middle East Eye.
- Englert S. (2025), Settler Colonialism: An Introduction (Audiobook): Tantor Media. [audio].
- Englert S. (15 October 2025), Gaza protests show we need union power to hit the system where it hurts. Middle East Eye. [web article].
- Englert S.P. 2 January 2024, Settler colonialism: from Columbus to Gaza. Settler Colonialism - from Columbus to Gaza [podcast].
- Englert S.P. & De Jong A., Marxism and the critique of antisemitism. Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory. [web article].
- Englert S.P. & Bhattacharyya G. (2024), Capital’s genocide: a conversation on racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and possible worlds after Gaza, Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies 23(2): 165-186.
- Englert S.P. (2024), Turkey should stop blockading the freedom flotilla to Gaza, Jacobin : .
- Englert S.P. 18 December 2024, Zionism, settler colonialism & imperialism: the roots of Israel's genocide on Gaza. Palestine Deep Dive [podcast].
- Englert S.P. 27 May 2024, What is settler colonialism?. Unpacking Zionism Podcast 9 [podcast].
- Englert S.P. (2023), Israel’s “reasonable” opposition has a hollow idea of democracy, Jacobin : .
- Englert S.P. (2023), Hebrew labor without Hebrew workers: the Histadrut, Palestinian workers, and the Israeli construction industry, Journal of Palestine Studies 52(3): 1-23.
- Englert S.P. (16 October 2023), Impending genocide. Sidecar: New Left Review. [web essay].
- Englert S.P. & De Jong A. (2023), Marxism and the critique of antisemitism, Historical Materialism 32 (1): .
- Allinson J. & Englert S.P. (2023), The enemy trinity. In: Englert S.P. Schatz M. & Warren R. (Eds.), From the River to the Sea: essays for a free Palestine. London: Verso.
- Englert S.P., Schatz M. & Warren R. (Eds.) (2023), From the River to the Sea: essays for a free Palestine: Verso.
- Englert S.P. (2022), Settler Colonialism: An Introduction. FireWorks. London: Pluto Press.
- Englert S.P. (2022), East Mediterranean Natural Gas: A Lubricant for Israel’s Regional Integration, AUB Critical Development Blog : .
- Englert S.P. (2022), الغاز الطبيعي في شرق البحر الأبيض المتوسّط [East Mediterranean Natural Gas: A Lubricant for Israel’s Regional Integration] (translation: Englert S.P.), AUB Critical Development Blog : .
- Englert S.P. (2022), East Mediterranean Natural Gas: A Lubricant for Israel’s Regional Integration, LeftEast : .
- Englert S.P. (2022), The Privatization of the Port of Haifa Is a Move to Make Political Allies for Israel, Jacobin : .
- Bouattia M. & Englert S.P. (2021), Algerians Toppled a President. Now They Are Fighting for Real Democracy, Jacobin .
- Englert S.P. (2021), Anti-Semitism and De-racialisation: the case of Algerian Jews, Spectre (3): .
- Englert S.P., Graham M., Fredman S., du Toit D., Badger A., Heeks R. & Van Belle J.P. (2021), Workers, Platforms and the State: The Struggle over Digital Labour Platform Regulation. In: Drahokoupil J. & Vandaele K. (Eds.) A Modern Guide To Labour and the Platform Economy. Elgar Modern Guides: Edward Elgar Publishing. 162-176.
- Englert S.P. (2020), Settlers, workers, and the logic of accumulation by dispossession, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography 52(6): 1647-1666.
- Englert S.P., Woodcock J. & Cant C. (2020), Digital workerism: technology, platforms, and the circulation of workers’ struggles, tripleC : Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 18(1): 132-145.
- Callum C., Englert S.P., Hughes L., Liu W., Marotta A., Weeler S. & Woodcock J. (2020), A Brief Survey of Class Composition in the UK. In: Ovetz Robert (Ed.), Workers' Inquiry and Global Class Struggle: Strategies, Tactics, Objectives. London: Pluto.
- Englert S.P., What is at Stake in the Study of Settler Colonialism?. [web article].
- Cant C., Englert S.P. & Woodcock J., Digital Workerism: Technology, Platforms, and the Circulation of Workers’ Struggles. [web article].
- Englert S.P. (2019), Smoke and Mirrors: Rising Israeli ‘Fascism’ or Forgetting the Labour Zionist Past, Middle East Critique 28(4): 289-305.
- Englert S.P. (2019), Recentring the State: A Response to Barnaby Raine on Anti-Semitism, Salvage (7): .
- Englert S.P. (2018), The State, Zionism and the Nazi Genocide: Jewish Identity Formation in the West between Assimilation and Rejection, Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory 26(2): 149-177.
- Englert S.P., Review: The Israeli Path to Neoliberalism. [web article].
- Englert S.P. (2016), Doykayt: Yiddishland for All, Salvage (2): .
- Englert S.P. (2012), The rise and fall of the Jewish Labour Bund, International Socialism Journal (135): .