Summary
An analytic, in Feldman’s reconstruction, that made visible how durable, persistent and intensified forms of state and state-sanctioned violence exceeded the juridical horizon of the civil rights consensus, rationalised through the figure of permanent war in both Israel and the United States (A Shadow over Palestine, lines 127-137, 381-387).
Details
- Israel since 1948 had been in a permanent state of war, without a formal constitution or internationally agreed borders, governing Arabs through military rule and routine emergency measures (line 135).
- W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1953 preface, Huey P. Newton’s 1967 “In Defense of Self-Defense” and Jack O’Dell on militarism are gathered as articulations of the register (line 385).
- SNCC’s framing of the Palestine problem as a genealogy of the documented facts of permanent war revealed the obscuring of racialised state violence that was racial liberalism’s condition of possibility (line 387).
Related pages
A Shadow over Palestine, Black Power’s Palestine, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee