Response to Elia Zureik's Israel's Colonial Project in Palestine: Brutal Pursuit

Helga Tawil-Souri Helga Tawil-Souri

doi:10.13169/arabstudquar.38.4.0683

Abstract

Response to Elia Zureik's Israel's Colonial Project in Palestine: Brutal Pursuit

Highlights

Calling Israel a settler colonial regime is an argument increasingly gaining purchase in activist and, to a lesser extent, academic circles
Zureik directly tackles the workings of the Israeli version of settler colonialism, offering a wealth of details as well as a helpful engagement with a range of scholarship from a variety of disciplines that support this argument
The two-state solution is long dead. What makes such a reading possible is Zureik’s disentanglement of the “surveillant assemblage” of settler colonialism, analyzing what, how, to whom, and where the Israeli regime does what it does through different modes of control

Summary

Introduction

Calling Israel a settler colonial regime is an argument increasingly gaining purchase in activist and, to a lesser extent, academic circles. Zureik directly tackles the workings of the Israeli version of settler colonialism, offering a wealth of details as well as a helpful engagement with a range of scholarship from a variety of disciplines that support this argument. What makes such a reading possible is Zureik’s disentanglement of the “surveillant assemblage” of settler colonialism, analyzing what, how, to whom, and where the Israeli regime does what it does through different modes of control.

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