Euromodern colonialism and its Zionist settler extension in Palestine is predicated on what Maldonado-Torres (2007) referred to as the “death ethic of war” or the “non-ethics of war." The non-ethical paradigm of war refers to the material and symbolic structures that naturalize the state-sanctioned premature death of colonized and negatively racialized peoples (Wilson Gilmore). Sylvia Wynter proposes that this structure necessarily depends on the denial of “co-humanness”—the negation of the humanity of the colonized Other via the naturalization of superiority and inferiority, which can be understood in biological and cultural terms. For example, That’s why it is difficult to distinguish Euromodern colonial discourses with Zionism’s dehumanizing rhetoric. Take, for instance, the use of the following terms: children of the light, civilized, children of darkness, subhuman animals, savage, and barbaric. As we already know or perhaps should know, these terms dehumanize people to justify whatever atrocities a colonial power is prepared to commit in the name of a “civilized” Western humanity.
Zionism's Paradigm and Death Ethic of War
Zionism's Paradigm and Death Ethic of War
Zionism's Paradigm and Death Ethic of War
Euromodern colonialism and its Zionist settler extension in Palestine is predicated on what Maldonado-Torres (2007) referred to as the “death ethic of war” or the “non-ethics of war." The non-ethical paradigm of war refers to the material and symbolic structures that naturalize the state-sanctioned premature death of colonized and negatively racialized peoples (Wilson Gilmore). Sylvia Wynter proposes that this structure necessarily depends on the denial of “co-humanness”—the negation of the humanity of the colonized Other via the naturalization of superiority and inferiority, which can be understood in biological and cultural terms. For example, That’s why it is difficult to distinguish Euromodern colonial discourses with Zionism’s dehumanizing rhetoric. Take, for instance, the use of the following terms: children of the light, civilized, children of darkness, subhuman animals, savage, and barbaric. As we already know or perhaps should know, these terms dehumanize people to justify whatever atrocities a colonial power is prepared to commit in the name of a “civilized” Western humanity.