This paper investigates the contemporary phenomenon of smuggling sperm from within Israeli jails, which I treat as a biopolitical act of resistance. Palestinian prisoners who have been sentenced to life-imprisonment have recently resorted to delivering their sperm to their distant wives in the West Bank and Gaza where it is then used for artificial insemination. On the level of theory, my analysis of this practice benefits from Jacques Derrida's commentary in The Post Card on imaginative postal delivery of sperm to distant lovers. I use Derrida's heteronormative implication to examine how Palestinian prisoners defy the Israeli carceral system via the revolutionary act of sperm smuggling. The article then argues that smuggling sperm challenges the conventional gender codes in Palestinian society that see women in passive roles. Drawing on Derrida's metaphorical connection between masturbation and writing, I problematize the perception of speech/orality as primary in traditional Palestinian culture. Women, who mostly act as smugglers, become social agents whose written stories of bionational resistance emerge as a dominant mode of representation.

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“每个精子都是神圣的”：巴勒斯坦囚犯、走私的精液和德里达的预言

这篇论文调查了从以色列监狱走私精子的当代现象，我将其视为一种生物政治的抵抗行为。被判处无期徒刑的巴勒斯坦囚犯最近将他们的精子提供给他们在西岸和加沙的远房妻子，然后在那里进行人工授精。在理论层面上，我对这种做法的分析得益于雅克·德里达在《明信片》中关于将精子邮寄给远方恋人的富有想象力的评论。我使用德里达的异性恋暗示来研究巴勒斯坦囚犯如何通过精子走私的革命性行为来挑战以色列的监禁系统。然后，文章认为，走私精子挑战了巴勒斯坦社会将女性视为被动角色的传统性别规范。借鉴德里达在手淫和写作之间的隐喻联系，我对在传统巴勒斯坦文化中作为主要语言/口语的看法进行了问题化。主要充当走私者的女性成为社会代理人，她们的生物民族抵抗的书面故事成为主要的代表模式。