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Volume 65, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 0043-5414
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Abstract

Abstract

This essay argues that the ongoing genocide in Palestine must be understood as part of a broader historical continuum of neocolonial violence and indigenous resistance across the Middle East. It challenges hegemonic conceptual framings of genocidal violence that dominate academic and public discourse in the Global North by discussing how they obscure the structural entanglement between genocidal violence and neocolonial interventions in the region. Grounding its analysis in a perspective from the Iranian Independent Left, the essay highlights a longstanding tradition of resistance that has confronted not only imperialist and neocolonial powers but also regional ethno-religious despotisms. The essay advances three central claims. First, hegemonic frameworks of genocide rely on idealized binaries of victims and saviours, erasing the political agency of the oppressed. Second, these frameworks conceal the role of neocolonial interventions in producing and sustaining genocidal warfare. Third, dismantling these structures requires centring the ethics and politics of indigenous liberation movements across the region. The essay, rather than offering abstract solidarity, amplifies a critical voice grounded in the region’s enduring struggles and calls for a radical rethinking of how genocide, resistance, and liberation are theorized and confronted.

© Leila Faghfouri Azar en Shahin Nasiri
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Keyword(s): Genocide; Middle East; Neocolonialism; Resistance; Victimhood

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