Sexual Violence, Women’s Bodies, and Israeli Settler Colonialism

Click here to access article by Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Sarah Ihmoud and Suhad Dahir-Nashif from Jadaliyya.

Sexual violence is central to the larger structure of colonial power, its racialized machinery of domination, and its logic of elimination.  This is readily apparent in the history of settler colonial contexts, where the machinery of violence explicitly targets native women’s sexuality and bodily safety as biologized “internal enemies” since they are the producers of the next generation.