Palestinian Mourning in Perpetual Genocide

This article explores how Arabs, particularly Palestinians, mourn and resist ongoing and reproductive genocide, where mourning acquires political, social, and affective dimensions often overlooked by non-Arabic frameworks. Challenging liberal and neoliberal psychoanalytic models of individualized mourning, it calls for an anticolonial, antiracist, queer-decolonial feminist reworking of psychoanalysis. Critically indigenizing object relations theory from the Global South, the article examines how Palestinian attachments to social, cultural, and material objects are forged, ruptured, and maintained under settler colonial violence. Gender is shown to be central to both social reproduction and its targeted destruction. Rather than treating mourning as ritual or ethnographic practice, the article theorizes it as a collective, militant process that transforms loss into political defiance and communal life and Palestinian worldmaking. Palestinian mourning emerges as an active, resistant practice that sustains social cohesion against Zionist settler colonial domination and the social relations and materiality from which liberation emerges