Solidarity in the Borderlands of Sovereignty – A Potential (Un)Ontopology

This paper introduces two distinct expressions of solidarity of Jewish radical left activists living in Palestinian localities in the West Bank with the Palestinian struggle. The first entails evading Israeli state agents’ surveillance and being politically engaged away from the state's radar. The other entails using privileges as Jews to make power visible, to expose privileges to make them seen and heard. By exploring these two types of solidarity, I claim that the ontopological logic, that is, the ontological values linked to space, temporality, body, and identity perceptions in the settler colonial borderlands, limits the possibility of solidarity of dissenting colonizers with the colonized. Even acts of decolonial strong solidarity of Israeli Jews with the Palestinian struggle are determined by the ontopological order, although they also present the potentiality of undoing ontopology.