Gaza: a decolonial perspective on the coloniality of power today
The announcement of this special issue stated: “We are persuaded that ‘the battle for language’ is pivotal in the battle for decolonial justice,” i.e., we recognize “the power of the word to transform the world”. My contributing goals, as far as the Palestinian Question is concerned, are to insist that the “battle of language” is not only the battle for the content of what it is said. It is also urgent and necessary to engage in two decolonial endeavors: to reveal the terms (the assumptions) and the logic sustaining the danger of the hegemonic, or dominant single story (Ngozi Adichie), as well as to build decolonial narratives that would/could transform – in the public sphere – disrespect of other human beings displacing them with love. This claim may sound idealistic, but only in the context of robotization that has transformed state leaders and administrative bureaucracies into machines of hatred and destruction and the mass media into promoters and defenders of the dominant single story.
