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Impossible Conditions of Life: Famine, Humanitarian Management, and Genocide in Gaza

March 28, 2026 by
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This article examines how the Israeli government engineered humanitarianism in Gaza since the 2005 withdrawal, transforming it into a biopolitical regime of containment and an instrument of war. Drawing on the work of Eyal Weizman and Michel Agier, the article argues that the resulting matrix of control set the stage for starvation crimes to become a modality of genocide. It becomes clear that Israel’s humanitarian management functioned as an occupation strategy that sustained basic survival while systematically obstructing economic development, deliberately producing a state of Continue reading → Continue reading →

If Our Bodies Will Not Tell Our Tale, Perhaps Our Ruins Will

March 28, 2026 by and
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This article examines the concept of ruins, exploring their complex relationships with power, the built environment, and society within the context of ongoing settler colonialism. It asks how ruins in Palestine might serve as silent witnesses capable of documenting and constructing a living archive of dispossession and resistance. Contrary to views that see ruins as inert remnants or results of neglect, this study proposes understanding them as active agents that connect past, present, and possible future(s). Reclaiming the agency of ruins offers a powerful means Continue reading → Continue reading →

Gaza: Trapped by the International Order

March 5, 2026 by
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The war in Gaza has given rise to unprecedented protests in the West and divided the international community between nations supporting and condemning Israel. It has also led to countries like South Africa and Nicaragua initiating legal action against Israel that has resulted in equally unprecedented indictments. But despite dividing Western societies and the international order in hitherto unimaginable ways, popular mobilisation against the war remains far greater in Western Europe and North America than elsewhere.[1] It is true that demonstrators in the West are Continue reading →

From a Right of Self-Defence to the Fact of Conquest

June 7, 2025 by
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Peter Hallward[1] This article has been updated by the author with a new post-script, finalized on 17th June.* On 7 October 2023 some arguments began that continue to this day. Did the Hamas-led attack on Israel come out of the blue or was it a response to decades of domination and dispossession? Was it an incomprehensible act of savagery or a long-awaited prison break? A well-timed strike at a complacent oppressor or a counter-productive mistake? Were its intended targets military or civilian or both? Were Continue reading →