Israel's extensive practices of state terrorism remain largely unacknowledged in academic, political, and media discourse, despite significant documentation, a phenomenon the article terms a "public secret." This analysis explores why, using concepts like "subjugated knowledge" and the "epistemology of ignorance," arguing that Israel's state terrorism is intrinsically linked to its settler colonial project, which necessitates violent coercive power for "the elimination of the Native."
The article defines state terrorism as violence or its threat intended to create psychological fear in a target audience for a political objective, distinguishing between limited and wholesale forms. Historically, Zionist militias and later the IDF employed both limited acts, like assassinations, and wholesale campaigns, such as massacres for ethnic cleansing and bombing campaigns in the Arab world, including Operation Susannah in Cairo (1954) and bombings targeting Iraqi Jews. Maintaining this "public secret" serves material, political, and academic interests, including those of the United States, yet the author posits room for discursive resistance.
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