« Local decolonisations? Garrett FitzGerald, ‘Unsettling Peace: The Settler-Colonial Challenge to the Local Turn’, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding , 2023
Core settlers, at the margin: Matt Wray, Catherine Wolfe, ‘White settler colonialism, ‘chromanyms’ and the trouble with marginal whites’, in Rikke Andreassen, Catrin Lundström, Suvi Keskinen, Shirley Anne Tate (eds), The Routledge International Handbook of New Critical Race and Whiteness Studies, Routledge, 2023 »

Indigenous resistance is a crime (as far as settlers are concerned): Adan Tatour, Lana Tatour, ‘The criminalization and racialization of Palestinian resistance to settler colonialism’, in Chris Cunneen, Antje Deckert, Amanda Porter, Juan Tauri, Robert Webb (eds), The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice, Routledge, 2023

02Jul23

Abstract: This chapter explores the criminalization of Palestinian resistance by Israel. It focuses on ‘’48 Palestinians’ (known also as Palestinian citizens in Israel) and the ways in which Israel systematically used mass arrests during the Unity Uprising in May 2021 as a colonial technology to stifle Palestinian protest and construct Palestinians as a security threat and as criminals. The chapter demonstrates the function of the Israeli justice system as integral to Israeli settler colonial violence. To punish Palestinians for their participation in the uprising, Israel, we demonstrate, mobilized racialized legal categories that enable it to subject Palestinians to aggravated punishment by classifying offences as racist and/or terrorist crimes. Israel, we further show, worked to connect the uprising – an act of resistance to settler colonialism – to the rising crime rates in Palestinian society in recent years, resulting in a dual process that we refer to as the securitization of crime (treating crime as a security issue) and the criminalization of resistance (treating political mobilization as a criminal issue). Through the entwinement of crime and political resistance, Israel sought to erase the anti-colonial sensibilities that drove ’48 Palestinians to the streets in May 2021.


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