« Indigenous space cadets? Adam Fish, ‘Planetary media: Decolonizing the space industry through Indigenous ownership’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2024
Settler colonial carbon neutrality: Douglas Robb, Philippe Le Billon, Karen Bakker, ‘Landscapes of Recarbonization: Carbon Neutrality, Settler Colonialism, and Cumulative Environmental Effects in the Peace River Region, Canada’, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2024 »

Mandate to settler colonialism: Dalal Iriqat, ‘Legacy of the British Mandate: Eliminating The Palestinian Right to Self-Determination’, Middle East Policy, 2024

02Aug24

Abstract: In February 2024, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a plan for the “postwar” Gaza Strip that envisions Israel’s military as unilaterally and indefinitely patrolling the enclave while an unnamed third party runs the local government. While even allies like the United States criticized this scheme, Palestine has never enjoyed autonomy as a state, and the institutions and practices of Israel’s far-right government—and even of the Palestinian elite—are rooted in the settler colonialism facilitated by the British mandate, 1922–1948. This period was the first and last time in modern history that Palestinian Arabs and Jews were administered as a single polity, albeit on radically unequal terms. This article examines how international law was used to suppress the Palestinians and privilege the creation of a Jewish state of Israel. The legacy of this regime can be seen in the present-day thwarting of Palestinian self-determination through Israel’s use of the military for civil administration, digital surveillance, and the right-wing agenda for annexation of the West Bank and perpetual war in Gaza.


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