“Is that you again? Didn’t I kill you?
I said…you killed me…and I forgot, like you, to die.”
(Mahmoud Darwish, “In Jerusalem”)
My esteemed colleague, the beautiful human being named Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, a Palestinian Armenian scholar from Jerusalem, reviled and chased out of her tenured full professor position at Hebrew University for daring to call the genocide of Gazans by its proper name, and who has been a Visiting Professor this past year at Princeton with me in the Gender and Sexuality Program, elaborates on this verse of her compatriot, the late poet Mahmoud Darwish, through her chilling concept of Overkill[1].
Like the related term “Necropolitics” as…