Israel’s violence in Gaza is not merely self-defence but part of a longer story of settler colonialism.

Priya Satia is the Raymond A Spruance Professor of International History and Professor of History at Stanford University. She is the prize-winning aut... hor of Spies in Arabia (OUP, 2008) and Empire of Guns (Penguin, 2018). Her new book, Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire (Penguin Allen Lane), was released in the fall and named among the New Statesman's and BBC History Magazine's best books of 2020.
Israel’s violence in Gaza is not merely self-defence but part of a longer story of settler colonialism.