Israeli territorial expansion imposed inverse spatial claustrophobia on Palestinians

Evidence

This practice has been extended ever since by Jewish settlers throughout the West Bank, enclaving the Palestinian population into enclosed refugee camps in what might have been a common territory, prisoners in what is projected to be their own state. Israel’s Samsonite smashing out of its originary claustrophobic territorial constraints has been purchased with almost every flexing at the cost of the increasingly imposed constraints of palestinianized claustrophobia. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 629

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The image of Israel’s territorial expansion (Samson smashing constraints) being purchased at the price of the enclaving claustrophobia inflicted on Palestinians inverts the standard narrative of a country ‘unclenching’ — the two claustrophobias are structurally coupled, not opposite.
• BMF: The paired inversions of freedom/containment — one group’s escape from constraints purchased by another’s imprisonment — evokes the spatial coupling in Zamyatin’s We, where the Green Wall’s exclusion of freedom mirrors the One State’s internal enclosure of its citizens.
• XREF: connects to: Israeli nationalist parades weaponize sensory dominance to confine Palestinians to invisibility — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 1054