American racial logics now serve as template and testing ground for Palestinian dispossession

Evidence

Racial americanization and racial palestinianization thus are deeply related. If the former is a disposition to externalize death for the purposes of elevating life locally, the latter is a disposition to set for others life’s very distinct limits through death. Racial palestinianization involves the marking of a population as excess, as superfluous, while refusing to acknowledge, to see or conceive, the death and dominating destruction brought about under the force of racial americanization. Where racial americanization offers historical template and post facto legitimation, racial palestinianization now serves as embodied extension and testing ground for the implementation of its technologies and a trial balloon, a model among others, for how much a state-oiled military can get away with. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 702

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘trial balloon’ claim connects to the reader’s material on state violence and sacrifice — how a state tests what it can get away with.
• SEED: Possible essay angle: tracing specific ‘technologies of racial americanization’ (policing, redlining, mass incarceration) as they get exported and adapted in the OPT.