1. The Virus, the Settler, and the Siege: Gaza in the Age of Corona
- Author:
- Ghassan Abu-Sittah
- Publication Date:
- 06-2020
- Content Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal:
- Journal of Palestine Studies
- Institution:
- Institute for Palestine Studies
- Abstract:
- This essay explores the challenges and opportunities that the Covid-19 pandemic has afforded Israel as it broadens its settler-colonial objectives internally, in Gaza, and elsewhere. In particular, it sheds light on the heightened militaristic and economic approaches taken by Israel to further entrench its siege of Palestinians in Gaza and to export increasingly advanced technologies of surveillance and state control long deployed against the Palestinian people. This investigation thus offers an opportunity to probe settler colonialism’s strategic opportunism in the face of the historic pandemic.
- Topic:
- Public Health, Settlements, Pandemic, and COVID-19
- Political Geography:
- Middle East, Israel, and Palestine