Language in Western discourse abandoned the Palestinian people. In a global framework that renders Palestinians invisible unless visibility is required to satisfy the mainstream narrative, the West has talked about Palestinians in terms of projections that are far removed from the reality of a colonised indigenous population. “One way to frame this political predicament of Palestinians is as being caught between visibility and invisibility. It captures this peculiar positionality, as both helpless and dangerous, that is then projected out from profoundly confined circumstances, limiting not just movement, but also their political possibilities,” John Randolph Leblanc writes in his introduction to The Spectral Palestinian: Presence Before Politics (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026). Palestinian presence haunts Israel and its settler-colonial enterprise, but Palestinian narratives […]
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