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Items by Maheera Munir
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The new politics of permanent occupation
Six years back, India’s revocation of Article 370 to end the semi-autonomous status of Jammu and Kashmir echoed Israel’s decades-long settler colonialism in the West Bank. Six years later, the Israeli Knesset has passed the initial bill allowing imposition of Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank, reigniting the debate surrounding…
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Israel is engineering starvation to redefine the meaning of life for Palestinians
The starvation crisis in Gaza is simply understood as a humanitarian catastrophe or a war crime. While these descriptions are not incorrect, they are incomplete. The crisis unfolding in Gaza is more than Israel using hunger as a weapon; it is a calculated biopolitical project. Shutting down borders, restricting aid…