The militarization of Israeli society has taken on new dimensions with the harvesting of sperm from the bodies of deceased soldiers for “posthumous reproduction.” In this way, soldiers become the colonial embodiment of Israeli national masculinity.

We are in an era of academic metaphors where critical recognition is divorced from recognized reality. Many academics write on decolonization but hardly engage with actual forms of undoing injustice.

Israel’s settler-colonial ideological mission not only impacts Palestinians but prevents the country from being a democracy for Jews as well.

A new rule that forces visitors who fall in love with Palestinians to inform Israeli authorities shows that the right to intimacy serves as both a realm of domination as well as a form of resistance under Israeli settler-colonialism.