As the occupation's mechanisms of control seep into the civilian sphere, Jewish dissidents are next in line — and academic freedom offers no protection.
In the Israel of 2025, the boundaries between the regime’s arenas of power are becoming blurred. The mechanisms of domination over Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza — military law alongside civil law, unrestrained power beside formal institutions — seep inward to affect Palestinian citizens of Israel and, increasingly, Jewish-Israeli dissidents who refuse to fall in line with state policy.
This is no sudden shift, but rather a cumulative process. Over decades, the occupation regime developed technologies of control, surveillance, and classification to subjugate Palestinians, which have gradually turned into instruments of governance within Israel’s civilian sphere.
A central part of this is the mechanism of marking enemies. This is not just a practice of military control but a broad political tool that redefines the limits of legitimacy. In this regard, two recent attacks on freedom of expression at Israeli university campuses are therefore not exceptions; they are the natural continuation of long-constructed patterns. (more...)
On Israeli campuses, the state marks another enemy within
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