There is no specific word for the mass killing of children, for the mass obliteration of an entire society, for the mass toxification of air or of water, for the mass annihilation of trees. [...] “The environmental impacts of the war in Gaza are unprecedented […] exposing the community to rapidly growing soil, water and air pollution and risks of irreversible damage,” (UN Environment Program, 2024); “The planet-warming emissions generated during the first two months of the war in Gaza were greater than the annual carbon footprint of more than 20 of the world’s most climate-vulnerable natio. [...] “A recent survey by the group Heritage for Peace details the damage done so far to more than 100 landmarks in Gaza since the start of the present conflict […] The casualties include the Great Omari Mosque, one of the most important and ancient mosques in historical Palestine; the Church of Saint Porphyrius, thought to be the third oldest church in the entire world; and the Rafah Museum, a space in. [...] “Al-Haq condemns the recent decision reached by the Israeli Supreme Court […] reviewing with approval Israel’s policy of withholding the bodies of killed Palestinians [...] It should be noted that the Israeli occupying authorities have a long history of such, and similar practices, including the use of enforced disappearances and ‘cemeteries of numbers,’ wherein Palestinians are buried in secret t. [...] Start your story with ‘Secondly,’ and the arrows of the [Indigenous people] are the original criminals and the guns of the white men are entirely the victims.
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- There are no legal terms or language for many of the forms of violence inflicted by Israel on Palestine. 2
- There is no specific word for the mass killing of children for the mass obliteration of an entire society for the mass toxification of air or of water for the mass annihilation of trees. 2
- The elimination of words is often described as Orwellian but how much more Orwellian to have never had the words at all 2
- Here then is a compilation of some of these unnameable violences. 2
- Gendered Violence Bureaucratic Ethnic Cleansing Invisible Violence Time Theft X-Ray State 2
- Together they reflect the capaciousness and multifariousness of colonial practices of domination. 3
- Aerocide 4
- Aquacide 4
- Arboricide 5
- Biometric Extractivism 6
- Bionic Genocide 6
- Bureaucratic Ethnic Cleansing 7
- Carceralization 7
- Collective Maiming 8
- Colonial Rubbishing 8
- Detour Complicity 9
- Digital Occupation 9
- Eco-Militarism 10
- Environmental Nakba 10
- Exclusionary Surveillance 11
- Surveillance inducting the colonized not into new forms of life and consumption but subjection to new forms of death and extrusion 11
- Fragmentation 12
- Gendered Violence Androcidal 13
- Holocide 14
- Humanitarian Camouflage 14
- International Legal Subalternity 15
- Invisible Violence 15
- Journacide 16
- Klepto-Colonialism 17
- Laboritization 18
- Legal Demo-viction 18
- Memoricide 19
- Medicide 19
- Misogery 20
- Misopedy 20
- Necropenology 21
- Nonperformative Speech 22
- Obstetric Violence 23
- Organized Irresponsibility 23
- Queermailing 24
- Reverse Reparations 24
- Scholasticide 25
- Self-Indigenization 26
- Sonic Terror 26
- Starting With Secondly 27
- Techno-Washing 27
- Terra Nullification 28
- Time Theft 29
- Terror Nullification 29
- Unchilding 30
- Vertical Apartheid 31
- Wastelanding 31
- X-Ray State 32
- Yellow-Plating 33
- Zygoticide 34
