Cynophiliac settler colonialism: Irus Braverman, ‘Gaza’s underdogs: From zoometrics to domicide’, Political Geography, 114, 2024, #103162
06Aug24
Excerpt: Images of Israeli soldiers saving dogs and cats buried in rubble by explosions have become popular in the Israeli press and social media in the current round of violence in Gaza. But what can be gleaned from the fact that no images circulate that depict Israeli soldiers digging Palestinian children out of the rubble? How does Israel’s empathy toward dogs and cats in Gaza relate to statements by Israeli officials describing Gazans as hayot-adam, a term that translates to “animal-humans” and is used colloquially in Hebrew to refer to beasts or savages? And how might animal survival and animal death help us understand the shifting meaning of humanness and humaneness amid the ongoing violence in Gaza?
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