Palestine in a Time of Genocide: The Global Responsibility for Gaza (Crimes of the Powerful)

This volume offers new directions in thinking about the 2023-2025 genocide in Gaza.Drawing on a range of perspectives-such as international law, anthropology, politics and international relations, Indigenous and settler colonial studies-the chapters reflect a collective affirmation of the continued utility and importance of the concept of genocide for making sense of Israel’s destruction of Gaza. Far from solely an international crime, genocide is a concept with a generative intellectual history which the contributors of this volume augment.One chapter examines how the central, if not the most prominent, way in which Israel has justified genocidal attacks has been through the international legal figure of the ‘human shield’.Another chapter draws on ethnographic methods with Palestinian survivors, to map some of the direct and indirect mental health implications of the ongoing genocide in Gaza on children.A further chapter elucidates the characteristics of transnational constitution and