The construction of Palestinian death as an exceptional repetition in Israel

MADAR, Revital

doi:10.1080/1070289X.2023.2259218

The construction of Palestinian death as an exceptional repetition in Israel

dc.contributor.author	MADAR, Revital
dc.date.accessioned	2023-09-22T10:52:33Z
dc.date.available	2023-09-22T10:52:33Z
dc.date.issued	2023
dc.description	Published online: 20 September 2023	en
dc.description.abstract	This article delves into a military court’s quest to determine the nature of one Palestinian death by an Israeli soldier as exceptional or banal. The court’s rejection of selective enforcement claims in Azaria’s trial for Al-Sharif’s killing allows unpacking Israeli settler society’s indifference to Palestinian deaths. As I show, the logic of open fire regulations strips these deaths of their singularity and political meaning, constructs them as an exceptional repetition, and sets them aside even when soldiers are prosecuted for killing Palestinians. Exploring whether a different epistemology could account for the singular yet repetitive nature of Palestinians’ deaths in Israel, I turn to Deleuze. His understanding of repetition as the maximality of differences and reversal of the order of trauma lead me to conclude that the state of Israel does not repeat (killing Palestinians) because it represses (the death of Palestinians). It represses because it repeats.	en
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dc.identifier.citation	Identities : global studies in culture and power, 2023, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 333-350	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1080/1070289X.2023.2259218
dc.identifier.endpage	350
dc.identifier.issn	1070-289X
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dc.identifier.issue	3
dc.identifier.startpage	333
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dc.title	The construction of Palestinian death as an exceptional repetition in Israel	en
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