The core problem for Israel is that it was malformed at birth. Born out of colonialism and at war from the start. Then it proceeded into a steady state of dispossession of more people and colonisation of more land. And more militarisation to try and hold those ill-gotten gains. In short, the entire lifespan of "Israel" has been a steadily escalating "State of Exception":
This is the climate in which apartheid was normalised in Israel, and in which the country has slid all the way down to mass murder and genocide. But as Agamben notes above the US empire is also on this type of path.
Following this train of thought, neither does anyone in the US have any rights. And you already see what is happening to the students that have been protesting the US support for Israel's slide into the abyss of this state of exception. Beaten, arrested, expelled from residences, facing absurd legal charges by the state.
I'd argue the students are a canary in the coal mine, and they are not even anywhere near what is doing to be done to protesters, as the US empire continues its slide down to the point in that abyss that Israel is already at. Look at the militarisation of police - it's preparation to beat down dissidents internally.
No one has any rights, and everyone is about learn that inside the empire.
The core problem for Israel is that it was malformed at birth. Born out of colonialism and at war from the start. Then it proceeded into a steady state of dispossession of more people and colonisation of more land. And more militarisation to try and hold those ill-gotten gains. In short, the entire lifespan of "Israel" has been a steadily escalating "State of Exception":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_exception
https://academic.oup.com/ejil/article/17/3/677/2756274
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo3534874.html
This is the climate in which apartheid was normalised in Israel, and in which the country has slid all the way down to mass murder and genocide. But as Agamben notes above the US empire is also on this type of path.
Following this train of thought, neither does anyone in the US have any rights. And you already see what is happening to the students that have been protesting the US support for Israel's slide into the abyss of this state of exception. Beaten, arrested, expelled from residences, facing absurd legal charges by the state.
I'd argue the students are a canary in the coal mine, and they are not even anywhere near what is doing to be done to protesters, as the US empire continues its slide down to the point in that abyss that Israel is already at. Look at the militarisation of police - it's preparation to beat down dissidents internally.
No one has any rights, and everyone is about learn that inside the empire.