| dc.description.abstract | In recent years, the Settler Colonial Paradigm (SCP) has become increasingly applied in the context of Palestine and in Palestine Studies. When I was working on my first book, ‘Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner’s Guide,’ which was published in 2009 and updated in 2014, I could draw on work by pioneering scholars on apartheid as a framework for viewing Israeli policies and practices towards the Palestinians. Modern scholarship on the SCP as applied to Palestine, however, was at an early stage, and when my second book was published, ‘Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy’ (2012), it would still be a year before the seminal special issue of Settler Colonial Studies on Palestine was published in 2013. Since I researched and wrote those two books, as well as the third book that completes this submission (‘Cracks in the Wall: Beyond Apartheid in Palestine/Israel’, 2018), the SCP has established itself as a leading field of academic enquiry with respect to Palestine. In light of these developments in scholarship, this essay returns to and revisits the apartheid analysis which forms the basis of my books, in order to see how the SCP provides a scholarly and holistic mode of interpreting conclusions previously framed in political and legal terms. This is particularly pertinent with respect to Palestinian citizens of Israel, who are a particular focus of both my books and this essay. There has been less scholarship applying the SCP to the Palestinians inside Israel, but doing so is illuminative not just with respect to understanding their experiences, but also with respect to questions of decolonisation. Finally, this essay further examines such questions by considering recent critical engagement with the SCP from scholars of indigenous studies and racial capitalism, and considering the practical implications for decolonisation. | en_GB |
