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Disrupting the Colonial Gaze: Gaza and Israel after October 7th

The Gaza experiment is ongoing, and it is taking the world further than any of us would have thought possible. In our article, The New Politics of Exclusion: Gaza as Prologue, published more than two years ago, we claimed that Israel had turned Gaza into a human laboratory where entirely new conditions were artificially created.

Now we know. The end of the Gaza experiment is no longer to ensure separation or repudiation, but elimination through genocidal slaughter, or, more euphemistically, “forced” or “voluntary” emigration to other lands largely unwilling to accept them.

By Ivar Ekeland and Sara Roy

Ivar Ekeland invited to a webinar of the Palestine Solidarity Student Organization of the University of Tokyo

Title: Palestinian Universities: Past, Present, Future

Saturday, May 18th, 19:00-20:30 (Tokyo time), corresponding 12:00-13:30 (Paris time)

To participate to the webinar, you must register by completing the form below. The zoom link will be sent to registered emails.

https://forms.gle/a6Sk2uyHzANcRUb18 (English version)

https://forms.gle/uHZ6r4BvDNj2ziAy8 (Japanese version)

New investigations in Gaza’s heritage landscapes: the Gaza Maritime Archaeology Project (GAZAMAP)

Decades of conflict in the Gaza Strip have contributed to widely documented cultural heritage destruction, demonstrating a need to monitor vulnerable sites and enhance the empirical base. This article describes how the Gaza Maritime Archaeology Project (GAZAMAP 2022–2023) was developed to monitor coastal and near-coastal sites, collaboratively. Owing to the unprecedented destruction of heritage since October 2023, GAZAMAP’s scope has fundamentally shifted.