This article interrogates the necropolitical logics of the Israeli settler-state apparatus towards Palestinians in the Occupied Territories during the COVID-19 pandemic. It examines these logics and practices through the prism of coloniality, which conceptualizes manifestations of colonialism (whether material, epistemic, or ontological) as a diffuse set of practices, opening up the conversation to discuss the ways in which international organizations, other states, and the Palestinian Authority continue to inflict the colonial harm through the employment of particular policies. Centring coloniality as an analytic allows a more global perspective and widens the discussion to include the ways in which Palestinians practise decoloniality, building and imagining “otherwise” worlds. This article maps the ways in which the devastation of the pandemic is not a product of the pandemic itself, but larger legacies of material, epistemic, and ontological colonial intervention.

本文质疑在 COVID-19 大流行期间以色列定居者国家机器对被占领土上的巴勒斯坦人的死亡政治逻辑。它通过殖民性的棱镜审视这些逻辑和实践，将殖民主义的表现形式（无论是物质的、认识论的还是本体论的）概念化为一组分散的实践，开启了讨论国际组织、其他国家和地区的方式的对话。巴勒斯坦权力机构继续通过采取特定政策造成殖民伤害。以殖民性为中心进行分析可以提供更全球化的视角，并扩大讨论范围，包括巴勒斯坦人实践非殖民性、建设和想象“其他”世界的方式。