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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 →

French Responses to the Bosnian Crisis: Humanitarianism, Genocide, and Memory

March 3, 2026 by
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Abstract This article explores the use of multidirectional memories in humanitarian and interventionist discourses in France during the first half of the 1990s. It does this through two sets of responses to mass violence: from 1991 to 1995 following the break-up of Yugoslavia, and during 1994 in Rwanda. While the Bosnian crisis, as many called it at the time, extended over years, the genocide in Rwanda took place over the course of a hundred days. In both cases, however, outside responses consisting of emergency relief Continue reading → Continue reading →

Kaunas to Khan Yunis: Aharon Barak’s Dissent, Ontologies of Partition, and the Cunning of Unintended Geography

March 3, 2026 by
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Abstract The ongoing violence in Gaza is upending one reigning liberal exceptionalist justification after another. A poignant illustration of this is Judge ad hoc Aharon Barak’s dissenting opinion on the provisional measures requested by South Africa in its suit against Israel in the International Court of Justice for breaching the Genocide Convention. In his dissent, Barak illustrated his experience as a Holocaust survivor in Lithuania in a manner unusually personal as a matter of judicial opinion. This, I argue, reveals the stark limits of the Continue reading → Continue reading →