
Colonialization Through Dehydration in Palestine
Israel’s extreme rationing of water to the Palestinian people is central to its larger project of control, domination, and ethnic cleansing.
Andrew Ross teaches at New York University and is the author, most recently, of The Weather Report: A Journey Through Unsettled Climates.
Israel’s extreme rationing of water to the Palestinian people is central to its larger project of control, domination, and ethnic cleansing.
As bombs continued to fall on Gaza last week, Palestinians joined together for a historic general strike, disrupting business as usual in Israel. But even more worker organization will be needed to end Israeli occupation.
Palestinians were not simply displaced and occupied by Israel — Palestinian workers’ superior skills and cheap labor has always been central to the building the physical environment of Israel.
A visit to the West Bank reveals the everyday brutality of the Israeli occupation.