Gendered Violence and Settler Colonialism in Palestine

Abstract

This panel explores how gendered violence functions as a core instrument of settler colonial power in Palestine including the recent genocide in Gaza. It examines how violence is deeply embedded in political, military, and economic structures: targeting women’s bodies, reproductive capacities, caregiving roles, social networks, and community life as part of ongoing projects of dispossession, control, and erasure. International support and complicity (through weapons, funding, political backing, and legitimising discourses) intensify these forms of violence. The panel also highlights forms of violence that are frequently overlooked in mainstream discussions, including siege, forced displacement, incarceration, sexualised terror, family separation, environmental destruction, and erasure of knowledge and narratives. Using anticolonial, decolonial, and feminist frameworks contributions should examine both the violence experienced by Palestinian women and their strategies of survival, care, resistance, and refusal under conditions of militarisation and genocide. Additionally, the panel interrogates the co-optation of feminist rhetoric to justify occupation and war, centring instead liberation-oriented feminist approaches that emphasise agency, collective care, and life-affirming practices. By situating these dynamics within the broader logic of empire the panel encourages contributions that explore transnational solidarities, contested feminist politics, and the imaginative possibilities for futures grounded in justice, resilience, and community survival.

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