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Settlers’ disorganization of indigenous societies as a means of control: The case of Palestine.

Thu, November 6, 4:00 to 5:45pm, Westin Bonaventure, Floor: Level 1, San Gabriel B (L1)

Abstract

The aim of the presentation is to discuss the ways by which settlers disorganize native communities. This is mostly done by the categorization of the natives to friend/ foe binary. Already in 1920 when the Jewish settler community in Palestine composed about 7% of the total population, a plan was laid down to disorganize the Palestinian society through bribery and the fomenting of conflicts between Muslim and Christian Palestinians. As the settler community grew, the methods used to disorganize the Palestinians were developed by the creation of “the village files” where the social structure of 1000 villages surveyed. Moreover, special intelligence personnel were trained to foment conflict between families, religious communities and tribes. A similar archive was created by the state of Israel in the mid-1950s to rule the Palestinian community. The presentation will discuss these surveillance practices as means of political control.

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