Palestine in Focus – Reproductive warfare and ‘the right to life’ in Palestine

In the second lecture of the Palestine in Focus series, Layal Ftouni examines how Israel’s deliberate assault on reproduction (human and environmental), although intensified in the current genocidal onslaught on Gaza, has long been a biopolitical and necropolitical strategy of the settler colonial state. The social, political, and militarised attack on reproductive labor, on infrastructures of life, the targeting of bodies (especially of women and children), this lecture argues, is an attack on Palestinian’s capacity to reproduce life, to live on. In the face of death, debilitation, and destruction, Palestinian fortitude ushers in scenes of life that circumvent the settler colonial aggression to curtail life. In this lecture, Ftouni discusses the place of reproduction in the struggle for the inalienable ‘right to life’ in Palestine, a right that is foundational to the Palestinian struggle for Liberation. Omar Jabary Salamanca will respond to Ftouni’s lecture.

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