Mainstreaming Anti-colonial Discourse on Palestine: Mohammed El-Kurd’s Discursive Interventions

Palestinian activists have long maintained that the hegemonic discourse used to describe their predicament is unhelpful for understanding nature of so-called “conflict” in country. They maintain a discursive hegemony suppresses voices and denies lived experience. A high-profile case settler organization’s attempt evict families from homes Jerusalem brought visibility counter-hegemonic challenges dominant framing situation Palestine/Israel. Through steadfast on-the-ground resistance was powerfully documented online, attention an otherwise routine act home dispos-session. This study examines advanced by one victims as example growing tendency frame Israeli actions through prism settler-colonialism. The article outlines fundamentals this traces synergies between narratives injustice those system-critical social movements concerned with issues racism, militarism, capitalism examine how power-resistance discourses challenge extant modes knowledge production.