Israel's Colonial Project in Palestine

Colonialism has three foundational concerns - violence territory and population control - all of which rest on racialist discourse and practice. Placing the Zionist project in Israel/Palestine within the context of settler colonialism reveals strategies and goals behind the regionâs rules of governance that have included violence repressive state laws and racialized forms of surveillance. In Israelâs Colonial Project in Palestine: Brutal Pursuit Elia Zureik revisits and reworks fundamental ideas that informed his first work on colonialism and Palestine three decades ago. Focusing on the means of control that are at the centre of Israelâs actions toward Palestine this book applies Michel Foucaultâs work on biopolitics to colonialism and to the situation in Israel/Palestine in particular. It reveals how racism plays a central role in colonialism and biopolitics and how surveillance in all its forms becomes the indispensable tool of governance. It goes on to analyse territoriality in light of biopolitics with the dispossession of indigenous people and population transfer advancing the stateâs agenda and justified as in the interests of national security. The book incorporates sociological historical and postcolonial studies into an informed and original examination of the Zionist project in Palestine from the establishment of Israel through to the actions and decisions of the present-day Israeli government. Providing new perspectives on settler colonialism informed by Foucaultâs theory and with particular focus on the role played by state surveillance in controlling the Palestinian population this book is a valuable resource for students and scholars interested in the Arab-Israeli Conflict and Colonialism. . Language: English