Wendy Pearlman
Wendy Pearlman is professor of political science and director of the Middle East and North Africa studies program at Northwestern University. Her books include “Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement” (2011) and “Triadic Coercion: Israel’s Targeting of States That Host Nonstate Actors” (with Boaz Atzili, 2018).
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The Erasure of Palestinian Society
Israeli leaders, and Western discourse at large, have long reduced the Palestinian national struggle to particular leaders or factions. Palestinian people, according to this perspective, are little more than puppets manipulated by those leaders, human shields behind which they hide or collateral damage of Israel’s military campaigns.
Collective Punishment in Gaza Will Not Bring Israel Security
The current bombardment of villages, towns, hospitals, telecommunications and other pillars of civilian life is the “Dahiyah Doctrine” intensified to a previously unimaginable degree. Fueled by a strategic culture that invokes moralistic justifications for extreme, undifferentiated military force as an end in itself, Israel’s current punitive campaign is of dubious security utility.