Description
This paper will analyse the genocide perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinian people within the current conjuncture of polycrisis, understood here as consisting of four overlapping structural crises. A crisis of overaccumulation of global capitalism is internally related with a crisis of global gender relations, a crisis of global race relations and a crisis of global ecology. This polycrisis is nowhere more visible than in the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
In this paper, I will unravel the underlying dynamics of genocide by exploring the different and yet related ways in which genocide is driven by these four overlapping crises: 1) I will examine how a bomb-and-build strategy is part and parcel of attempts to overcome economic recession, 2) I will assess the way of how genocide completely undermines the sphere of social reproduction in Gaza including the destruction of Palestinian reproductive capacity, 3) I will explore genocide as a way of dealing with non-white surplus populations, and 4) I will investigate genocide as a form of ecocide reflected in the systematic destruction of farmland.
In a final step, I will look at the increasingly transnational solidarity in support of the Palestinian people, highlighting the ways activists themselves are identifying the internal relations between multiple crises and the need for connecting moments of resistance across the different challenges we face.
In short, this paper will analyse genocide within the wider structural dynamics of polycrisis, allowing us to understand the drivers of genocide as well as the internal relations between multiple crises at the same time.
