Israel’s settler-colonialism as a global security paradigm

Sa’di, Ahmad H.

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“…It is evident that Israel's control over ICT is not only a matter of economic de-development but has also been translated into the creation of new technologies of surveillance and repression (Who Profits, 2021). Israel has long been the laboratory for experimentation on instruments of control, tested on Palestinians before being exported to other states around the world, in an extremely lucrative market (Sa'di, 2021). In this regard, the European Union remains Israel's largest trading partner (28.3% of Israeli export), with the departing United Kingdom (8.3%) in the lead among European states (War on Want, 2017), followed by the United States (26.2%), and the Asian economies of China (8.7%), India (5%), and Hong Kong (2.6%) (CBS, 2020).…”

Section: Algorithmic Infrastructurementioning

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E-scaping apartheid: Digital ventures of Zionist settler colonialism

Bevilacqua

2021

Human Geography

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The ongoing “Intifada of Unity” against Israel's settler colonialism has resuscitated discussions about the liberatory potential of digital emancipation due to the massive data traffic circulation through its international media coverage. In fact, in a process that has intensified since the outbreak of the global pandemic at the very least, social media platforms and geospatial mapping tools have been subverted from more mundane uses, developing into new forums for organizing, imagining, and practicing more just futures. Yet, the centrality of infrastructure both as a means of digital extractivism and as a site for rupture and resistance demonstrates that the path toward new trajectories of e-scaping cannot be conceived as a virtual venture directed at designing alternative volatile geographies alone, but should always involve facing and challenging power in its everyday forms. By investigating the materiality of cyber colonialism, this paper explores the entanglement between imperial cartography and digital map-making which has reduced Palestinians and their space to a pixelated terra nullius, sanitized from the paradigmatic sites of the occupation and overwritten by a pseudo-biblical narrative that aims to legitimize the re-indigenization of the Zionist settlers . At the same time, it unpacks online processes of hyper-visibility through which Palestine suddenly materializes as a signifier for its dangerous nature, yet fragmented and enclaved by an intangible and discretional regime of im/mobility enforced through the neglect of permits and visas, as well as by the material constraints posed by apartheid roads, barriers, checkpoints, gates, and walls. Finally, it retraces the rationality of Israeli violence diluted through the technical means of built environment, infrastructure, machines and algorithms which, on one hand, contributes to the de-development of Palestine and the censorship of its people, and on the other, normalizes Israel’s position in the region due to its perceived technological superiority vis-à-vis its neighboring counterparts.

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Section: Algorithmic Infrastructurementioning

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E-scaping apartheid: Digital ventures of Zionist settler colonialism

Bevilacqua

2021

Human Geography

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Israeli Colonial Governance vs. Palestinian Resistance: An Institutional Genealogy

Awad

2023

Middle East Critique

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Israeli and Palestinian Settler Colonialism in New Media: The Case of Roots

Pycińska

2023

Humanities

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Israeli settler colonialism, in time, became highly linked to the idea of a state, culminating in an institution that defends the past, present, and future practises maintaining the relations between the “native” and “settlers”. Settler colonial ideas and practises sustaining binary opposition between the “native” and the “settler” are reproduced not only by Israeli state broadcasters, but also by settler colonial social media. This article proposes media analysis that goes beyond the usual national and conflict narrative and links “settler colonial common sense” with social media impacts and state ideas/sovereign ideas of property that strive to eliminate native people or transfer them outside Israel’s perceived land ownership and sovereignty. This article also shows how Israeli settler colonial politics and narratives are supported by other settler colonial states (especially the United States). New media and settler common sense cannot be disassociated from the Israeli state and global politics, even though some settlers may have their own strategies regarding the relations with native Palestinians. The State of Israel, through massive surveillance technologies and support from other states that view militarisation and population management as crucial to maintaining its power, holds a great deal of influence over how it frames the “conflict” with Palestinians. We witness how both state violence and institutionalised Jewish privilege are recreated on the ground and globally through the new media. This issue is analysed through the “Roots” (a grassroots movement for understanding among Israelis and Palestinians) case study.

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Israel’s settler-colonialism as a global security paradigm

Cited by 3 publications

References 7 publications

E-scaping apartheid: Digital ventures of Zionist settler colonialism

E-scaping apartheid: Digital ventures of Zionist settler colonialism

Israeli Colonial Governance vs. Palestinian Resistance: An Institutional Genealogy

Israeli and Palestinian Settler Colonialism in New Media: The Case of Roots

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