I'm trying to think of what happens if we take expulsion off the table for everyone, and instead think about the rights of those who have been expelled already, which would include the various rights of refugees who came to Israel in the aftermath of WWII, but also those from other countries, and what rights the Palestinians have who have been dispossessed of their lands and homes.
Judith ButlerIn the first instance, performativity must be understood not as a singular or deliberate โact,โ but, rather, as the reiterative and citational practice by which discourse produces the effects that it names
Judith ButlerIndeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.
Judith ButlerI do situate myself in this problem of being a Jew who doesn't want to be represented by the state of Israel, a state that claims to represent all Jewish people and make me into a potential citizen.
Judith Butler