Medical expertise can be turned to torture of prisoners

Evidence

Israeli academia represents the equivalent of the state of extraordinarity in the otherwise general (or ordinary?) rule that is the typical academic world. In other words, it brings the hidden but real potency of academia into plain view, just as sovereign colonial rule makes the state of extraordinarity the apparent norm of domination. As I intimated, Israeli science is instrumental in the maintenance of the state’s grip over the Palestinians, including the medical profession, whose expertise is likewise essential for the torture of Palestinian political prisoners. It is a solid a fortiori argument that if humanitarian medical ethics are routinely violated in the interest of domination, then the involvement of science in the project of elimination is to be taken for granted. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 442

Categorization

• SEED: The claim that Israeli academia makes visible the hidden potency latent in all academia — that the ordinary academic world hides the same instrumental capacity — could seed a reflective essay on the entanglement of university research with state power generally.
• XREF: connects to: Real government medical abuses complicate dismissals of health conspiracies — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 533