Apparatus of Expulsion: Colonial Violence in Peasant Communities of the Jordan Valley
Colonial violence; Settler terrorism; Palestine.
This thesis deals with colonial violence in Palestine as a result of the occupation by the State of Israel. Specifically, it examines the strategy of state coercion exercised against the peasant villages of Mak-hul and Al-Farisiya in the Jordan Valley, West Bank. It also discusses, beyond the direct actions of the state, the everyday violence practiced by groups of Israeli settlers with the aim of expelling the native population from their territory. Such actions, as analyzed in this thesis, not only align with the state apparatus but also find support in rabbinic-messianic literature whose racist content resonates, even, in the political discourse of the current Israeli government. The research is based on data produced during an ethnographic trip conducted in Palestine/Israel in 2022, supplemented by archival research on the bibliographic production surrounding Zionist-messianic thought.