This issue includes two articles. Bansidhar Pradhan’s “Occupation vs. Resistance: Contextualizing Israel’s 2014 Operation Against the Palestinian Population in Gaza” presents a detailed picture of the indiscriminate bombing of Gaza by the Settler Colonial entity in Palestine between July and August 2014. The author presents events that are rarely discussed in the literature about those war crimes.
Ayman Mleitat, Bilal Hamamra, and Ahmad Qabaha’s article “Navigating Economic Inclusion and Psychological Exclusion: Immigration in Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist” contend that Changez’s immigration from Pakistan to America is a consequence of global capitalism where few opportunities are available in peripheral countries like Pakistan. The article draws on Kristeva’s theory of abjection, Wallerstein’s world system theory, and Petras’ imperialist-centered model of capitalist accumulation.