Genocide and the Mechanisms of Identification
A Reading of the Structural Similarities Between Nazism and Zionism — Gaza as a Case Study
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https://doi.org/10.36324/fqhj.v2i54.22520Keywords:
Nazi segregation, ghettos, Israeli siege, Gaza, spatial engineering and consciousness, demographic threatAbstract
Submission date: 29/11/2025
Acceptance date: 17/01/2026
Publication date: 30/03/2026
This research analyzes the policies of segregation under the Nazi regime and compares them to the practices of the Israeli occupation against Palestinians, particularly in the Gaza Strip. The research begins with the concept of segregation as a political and legal structure aimed at reshaping targeted groups, not merely separating them physically. It reviews the stages of Nazi segregation: from discriminatory laws (the Nuremberg Laws) to ghettos and finally to the control of resources and labor. It demonstrates that these tools constituted a comprehensive logic for managing the population and reducing them to a state of "bare existence." In a comparative context, the research discusses how this same logic is reproduced in Zionist policies through the siege, the separation wall, resource control, and the deliberate creation of unemployment and despair as political practices. Drawing on studies by Bauman, Foucault, Mbembe, and Pappe, the research reveals that segregation is not a historical event but a recurring pattern. He concludes that Gaza today represents a besieged space reflecting modern forms of bio-political control that transform resources, time, and movement into instruments of domination
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