While the gravity of the injustice and inequality experienced by Palestinians is now widely documented, evidenced, and acknowledged, when it comes to action the situation appears ‘impervious’ to international law and norms of global politics, with Israel largely enjoying impunity. This article argues that this state of affairs can be most coherently understood through a critical interdisciplinary emancipatory framework centred on ‘liminality’. Referring to situations and actors ‘betwixt and between’, the framework of liminality offers significant potential for understanding how particular actors and spaces are intentionally marginalised, disempowered, and silenced within global politics and international law. Furthermore, in revealing the root causes of liminality, and the inherent vulnerability of such spaces to contestation and subversion, the framework also opens up potential pathways of transformative emancipation. Applying the lens of liminality to Palestine, it is demonstrated that Palestinians have been deliberately corralled to a liminal space within international law and global politics in order to enable an expansionist Zionist/Israeli settler colonial enterprise. After exploring how Palestinian liminality manifests in global politics and international law, the article turns to a range of efforts to subvert Palestinian liminality and assesses prospects for a teleological emancipation for Palestinians.

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“巴勒斯坦问题”：从限制到解放

虽然巴勒斯坦人所经历的不公正和不平等的严重性现在已被广泛记录、证明和承认，但在涉及行动这种情况似乎“不受”国际法和全球政治规范的影响，以色列基本上逍遥法外。本文认为，通过以“限制性”为中心的批判性跨学科解放框架，可以最连贯地理解这种事态。提到“介于两者之间”的情况和行为者，阈限框架为理解特定行为者和空间如何在全球政治和国际法中被故意边缘化、剥夺权力和沉默提供了巨大的潜力。此外，在揭示阈限的根本原因，以及这些空间固有的易受争议和颠覆的脆弱性时，该框架还开辟了变革性解放的潜在途径。将阈限的镜头应用于巴勒斯坦，事实证明，巴勒斯坦人被刻意限制在国际法和全球政治中的临界空间，以促成扩张主义的犹太复国主义/以色列定居者殖民事业。在探讨了巴勒斯坦的界限如何在全球政治和国际法中体现出来之后，本文转向了一系列颠覆巴勒斯坦界限的努力，并评估了巴勒斯坦人的目的论解放的前景。