Nadera Shalhoub Kevorkian, a Palestinian feminist scholar, was a professor at Hebrew University when she was arrested by Israeli police in April 2024 over her statements about Gaza. Her book Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding names the thing. Unchilding is the process by which a settler state strips Palestinian children of the category of child, so that a six year old in a car becomes a "security situation," a boy with a stone becomes a "combatant," and a tent full of familie…
