Against the Wall: Anarchist Mobilization in the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict

Gordon, Uri

doi:10.1111/j.1468-0130.2010.00641.x

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“…This includes being a practice-based (rather than ideologically based) loosely formed group of activists organized in a non-hierarchical alliance committed to direct action. 6 Moreover, the West Bank activity of AAtW participants is based on the principles of solidarity and hence is only conducted when invited to do so by Palestinians to join local initiatives (see AAtW 2004;Blecher 2006;Gordon 2007Gordon , 2010Gordon and Grietzer 2013;Nagler et al 2006;Pallister-Wilkins 2009).…”

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“…6 The term direct action here follows Benjamin Franks' (2003) articulation as a form of political intervention which is prefigurative (an accordance between means and ends), non-representative (the agents are objecting to their own direct oppression on behalf of no one but themselves, and the actions themselves are configured as non-symbolic), and non-consequentialist (acts cannot be justified as a means to an end), which draws its meaning from the identity of the partaking agents and of the particular and local configuration of the oppressing forces they aim to oppose. 7 It is important to note that this form of solidarity should be distinguished from the politics of Jewish-Palestinian dialogue and co-existence (Gordon 2010;Pallister-Wilkins 2009). 8 Judging the validity of this claim is beyond our scope here.…”

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“…It is important to note that this form of solidarity should be distinguished from the politics of Jewish‐Palestinian dialogue and co‐existence (Gordon ; Pallister‐Wilkins ).…”

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Limits of Dissent, Perils of Activism: Spaces of Resistance and the New Security Logic

Amir

Kotef

2014

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On 26 December 2003 an Israeli activist was shot by the Israeli Army while he was participating in a demonstration organized by Anarchists Against the Wall (AAtW) in the West Bank. This was the first time Israeli Soldiers have deliberately shot live bullets at a Jewish-Israeli activist. This paper is an attempt to understand the set of conditions, the enveloping frameworks, and the new discourses that have made this event, and similar shootings that soon followed, possible. Situating the actions of AAtW within a much wider context of securitization-of identities, movements, and bodies-we examine strategies of resistance which are deployed in highly securitized public spaces. We claim that an unexpected matrix of identity in which abnormality is configured as security threat render the bodies of activists especially precarious. The paper thus provides an account of the new rationales of security technologies and tactics which increasingly govern public spaces.

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Limits of Dissent, Perils of Activism: Spaces of Resistance and the New Security Logic

Amir

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2014

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“…ES faces the wall, takes a pole vault and then soars over it: this is a political statement, but is also slightly comical and suggests the malleability and pointlessness of enforced barriers. The physical wall becomes obsolete, a symbol and reality of separation (Usher 2006), but also one that can and should be transgressed and can become linked to Palestinian agency (Shalhoub‐Kevorkian 2006) and activism (Gordon 2010; Pallister‐Wilkins 2009). Such third space creates potentially enabling moments that allow alterative imaginings that are both idealistic but at the same time grounded in material circumstances that require critical attention.…”

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Creating geographies of hope through film: performing space in Palestine‐Israel

Mavroudi

2012

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This paper explores the value and role of critical notions of space in the current impasse in Palestine‐Israel through a case study on two films and their creative use of space. The main aim of the paper is to illustrate that it is useful for geographers to use analyses of performance in order to theorise space in more hopeful ways, particularly in areas of conflict, by stressing the importance of space as open‐ended and performative. Through a discussion of two films, one by Elia Suleiman and the other by Michel Khleifi and Eyal Sivan, the paper argues that space, if imagined as dynamic, in‐between and potentially connecting Palestinians and Israelis, can be transformative and have a positive role to play in interrogating us/them relationships, power inequalities and Othering in the region. The paper highlights the value of using third space and performance to help create a spatial politics of affect, which may in turn lead to changing perceptions of the Other in conflict regions. Therefore, the paper makes a contribution, not only to the geographical literature on how space is appropriated and constructed in Palestine‐Israel, but also to geographical work on hope, film and performance.

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“…Uri Gordon writes: "The past ten years have seen a full-blown revival of a global anarchist movement, possessing a coherent core political practice, on a scale and scope of activity unseen since the 1930s" (Gordon, 2010, 414; see also Gordon, 2007;Dixon, 2012). Giorel Guran agrees that "postideological anarchism informs the impulse, culture and organization of oppositional politics today" (2006,2).…”

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Councils and Revolution: Participatory Democracy in Anarchist Thought and the New Social Movements

Lederman¹

2015

Science & Society

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Anarchism is often considered to have inspired the New Social Movements emerging in the last few decades. The 2011 mass demonstrations in Spain, Israel, the United States, and other places seem to confirm that what is often called "new" or postanarchism indeed inspires the visions and practices that characterize the new social movements -in particular, the call for, and the prefiguration of a more direct, participatory democracy. However, this inspiration is also characterized by an important loss: the lack of a systematic attempt to envision what participatory democracy would actually look like and how it would function. Such attempts were an important legacy of the "old" anarchist tradition, in the form of workers' councils. The political philosopher Hannah Arendt gave them an important and largely neglected political meaning. This legacy should be reconsidered and reinvigorated by scholars and activists who are interested in anarchism and/or the new social movements.

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Against the Wall: Anarchist Mobilization in the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict

Cited by 15 publications

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Limits of Dissent, Perils of Activism: Spaces of Resistance and the New Security Logic

Limits of Dissent, Perils of Activism: Spaces of Resistance and the New Security Logic

Creating geographies of hope through film: performing space in Palestine‐Israel

Councils and Revolution: Participatory Democracy in Anarchist Thought and the New Social Movements

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