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Accepted Paper:
The forgotten occupation: Ethnic cleansing, settler colonialism and resistance in the Syrian Golan
Maria Kastrinou
(Brunel University London)
Steven Emery
(University of Exeter)
Paper short abstract:
Providing a perspective on the ongoing tragedy from the vantage point of the Golan Heights – referred to as Israel’s ‘forgotten occupation,’ we trace stateless Syrians' resistance, and ask: why do ‘ethnic cleansing’ and ‘genocide’ reverberate as strongly here as in the rest of Palestine and Israel?
Paper long abstract:
The unfolding genocide in Palestine today is a continuation of Israel’s 75-year-old occupation and ethnic cleansing. This presentation provides a perspective on the ongoing tragedy from the vantage point of the Golan Heights – often referred to as Israel’s ‘forgotten occupation.’ How are the stateless Syrians experiencing this war? And why do ‘ethnic cleansing’ and ‘genocide’ reverberate as strongly here as in the rest of Palestine and Israel? By threading the current genocide to the story of occupation and ethnic cleansing in the Golan Heights, we discuss the underlying settler-colonial assumptions about religious purity and war that have fuelled imperialist projects in occupied Syria and Palestine, and in the wider region, exploring in ethnographic detail the continuity and the near-impossibility of its peoples' resistance.