| Sumario: | The discussion in this article stems from the idea that there is a pressing need for analyses that address the genocide in Palestine – beyond the victimhood frameworks of identitarian politics – within the context of the present-day functioning of global capitalism, the structural dimensions of state violence, and the possibilities of collective resistance. The question the article seeks to answer is this: Why has the violence of colonial settlement, waves of ethnic cleansing, and apartheid imposed on Palestinians for seventy-five years now escalated into genocide? In this context, we argue, first, that what is happening in Gaza cannot be understood in isolation from the deep crises of global capitalism, which even transnational capitalist elites cannot remain indifferent to. Israel's policy of annihilation towards Gaza is, in one sense, part of the ethno-nationalist struggle waged by the “Jewish state†against elements it perceives as threats to its own existence. However, in another sense, this new form of violence, positioned at the center of global geopolitical restructuring, should be seen as a real-time “alarm bell†for the millions who are being increasingly pushed into the ranks of the “surplushumanity.†Big tech monopolies have secured a central position within the military-industrialacademic-security complex, creating new profit areas through AI-based surveillance systems, algorithmic data processing techniques, and urban warfare/destruction practices. This process is consistent with both militarized accumulation and accumulation by repression dynamics; for while mass surveillance and control mechanisms are being built on a global scale, urban spaces are being transformed into arenas of capital accumulation through direct violence.
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