The tragedy unfolding in Gaza today is not merely a military clash or a short lived war between Israel and Palestinian armed groups. It is the most acute expression of settler colonialism, a mode of domination that, as Lorenzo Veracini explains in Settler Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview (2010), does not simply exploit resources but seeks to eliminate indigenous populations and replace them with settlers. Since the Nakba of 1948, Israel’s project in Palestine has been propelled by this logic of elimination: mass expulsions, the destruction of villages, illegal settlement construction, and systematic policies aimed at shrinking Palestinian space. Gaza, with...