The antisemitism to come? Gaza and the colonial management of necropolitical pollution.
What is the relation between Israel and the colonial West today? There are abundant folk, journalistic and academic views on that matter. They oscillate between seeing Israel as acting out the West's interests in the Middle East and seeing it as a more autonomous national actor influencing Western n...
| Published in: | Australian Journal of Anthropology Vol. 36; no. 2; pp. 407 - 427 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Aug2025
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