Summary
Political scientist at the University of Massachusetts Boston and author of Palestinian Labor Migration to Israel: Labor, Land and Occupation (2005), who argues in The Political Economy of Israeli Occupation: What is Colonial about It? that Israel’s management of the West Bank and Gaza Strip has been colonial in so far as it expropriated Palestinian land and disarticulated the Palestinian economy, making it fully dependent on Israel even after Oslo (The Political Economy of Israeli Occupation: What is Colonial about It?, PDF p.1-2).
Details
- Her 2008 article’s central distinction: the occupation did not seek economic exploitation per se but sought “to appropriate the land without the people”, and Oslo redefined rather than demolished its economics, institutionalising Israeli security concerns, constraining the Palestinian Authority and subcontracting the occupation’s cost to the international donor community (PDF p.2, p.7, p.12).
- Her earlier work is the article’s own source for settlement figures, labour shares and West Bank–Gaza trade (notes 16, 21, 43), and her Middle East Journal (2005) and Le Monde Diplomatique (2003) articles are cited for the apartheid analogy and the Bantustans elaboration (notes 33, 46).
Related pages
The Political Economy of Israeli Occupation: What is Colonial about It?, Settler Colonialism, Paris Protocol, World Bank