Guiding questions:
How do we understand the way race, nation, and religion interact in the construction of Israel, in the context of European settler-colonialism and the German Fascist genocide of the Holocaust?
To what extent has there been a shift in the character of domination between these 3 instances of the sort described by Donna Harroway or Gilles Deleuze?
Also: how do we understand the division/relationship between race etc. as symbolic/ideological/psychic systems and as material systems? What role has academia played in this division/relationship? Did it create it? Has it elucidated it? Obfuscated it? Shifted focus to one or the other or from one to the other?
What effect does this have on our ability to critique and act on these systems?
How can we understand the role academia plays here in terms of the motivating processes of academia, in terms of academia’s position within the systems it critiques/creates?
Additional Sources:
Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict - Norman Finkelstein
The Question of Palestine - Edward Said
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