Drawing on a perspective which takes into account the convergences of sovereign and biopolitical ruling apparatuses, the aim of this article is to provide a comprehensive view of the Separation Wall constructed by Israel in East Jerusalem, and, through it, of Israeli control of Palestinian East Jerusalem. Neither a comprehensive border, nor a mere barrier, the Separation Wall which is being constructed in Jerusalem operates to reinstates sovereign power in arrays of governmentality for the purpose of drawing on the ability of sovereignty to appropriate legitimacy for the territorialisation of governmentality. This article claims that these territorialised arrays of governmentality give rise to processes of racialisation, by maintaining a grip on the communities of Palestinians in East Jerusalem and sustaining them in an intermediate position, standing in the way of their full integration into the Israeli population while severing their existing connections with the Palestinians in the West Bank.The material presence of the Separation Wall constructed by Israel leaves little room for doubt. Confronted with its enormity, with its bulk concrete blocks, erected nine metres tall, topped with barbed wire, in its wall sections, and a high-tech multilayer fence, stretching up to fifty metres in width, with its track-trails and patrol roads, in the sections where it appears as a fence, one can hardly ignore that it was constructed as an exercise of state power to determine territorial facts on the ground. The magnitude of the wall is not only reflected in its immediate physical presence, but also in its being the biggest, most complex and most costly single project the Israeli government has ever undertaken. Indeed, the Separation Wall has attracted