Dr. Hannah (Omri) Ben Yehuda is a literary scholar in Tel Aviv University. Her recent book (with Dotan HaLevi) Israel’s Hetrotopy: Gaza in Israeli Politics and Culture was published in July 2023.
When Israel fights Hamas, very little is left for Mizrahim and women, but these two domestic Others of Israeli society are there as a form of resistance to the globalized lexicon of “War on Terror.” Both enable conceptualizing Gaza also in domestic terms, as another Israeli periphery.
