The Myth of the “Lone Wolf” Persists
A way to cover up a failing anti-terror strategy.
November 6, 2017
Jasbir Puar’s Right to Maim.
Described in a blurb as bringing “pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to bear on our understanding of disability,” Jasbir Puar’s Right to Maim (the blurb continues) “outlines how Israel brings Palestinians into biopolitical being by designating them available for injury.” The book—to be published this month by Duke University Press—argues that, by making efforts not to kill Palestinian civilians while combating terror, Israel has hit upon a new and creative way to exercise its control over them. Liel Leibovitz writes:
A way to cover up a failing anti-terror strategy.
If God’s promise to give the land of Israel to the descendants of Jacob can be canceled, the salvation promised by Christianity “is nullified in a plethora of meaningless metaphors.”
Jasbir Puar’s Right to Maim.
On creative minorities.
He brought the Holocaust to public attention.
Described in a blurb as bringing “pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to bear on our understanding of disability,” Jasbir Puar’s Right to Maim (the blurb continues) “outlines how Israel brings Palestinians into biopolitical being by designating them available for injury.” The book—to be published this month by Duke University Press—argues that, by making efforts not to kill Palestinian civilians while combating terror, Israel has hit upon a new and creative way to exercise its control over them. Liel Leibovitz writes:
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