Colonial Legalities: Jewish Territorial Domination in Palestine/Israel
This research investigates settler colonial legalities in Palestine-Israel. Since its establishment, Israeli jurisdiction has succeeded to maintain a Jewish racial territoriality of domination that transcends time and historical events, boundaries of legal frameworks, and formalities of territorial sovereignty. The research identifies and contextualizes the connecting legal structures that made Jewish territorial domination possible in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (oPt). More specifically, it focuses on land expropriations, displacement, and legal manifestations of Jewish spatial domination.
By extending its jurisdiction to all areas of Mandatory Palestine - Israel and the oPt - the Israeli Supreme Court became an important site that affects the intensity and scope of Israel’s racial territoriality, and an essential one to investigate Israeli settler-coloniality. During these adjudications, the Supreme Court became the interpreter of the law, and its judgments have an impact on how the law is manifested as a platform for racially transformative territoriality. It is thus a rich mine of knowledge through which to enhance our understanding of Israel’s colonial legalities and jurisprudence.