Decolonising Palestine and Unsettling Environmental Justice

This article examines how environmental justice frameworks must be reconsidered through Palestinian experiences of settler colonialism. It analyzes how Israeli resource extraction and environmental policies operate as mechanisms of displacement and territorial control, while challenging conventional environmental justice approaches that often overlook colonial contexts.

Through case studies of water access, land use, and agricultural practices, the authors demonstrate how environmental degradation intersects with settler colonial expansion. The work argues that meaningful environmental justice in Palestine requires addressing underlying structures of colonial domination rather than pursuing technical or managerial solutions.

The article concludes by proposing decolonial approaches to environmental justice that center Palestinian relationships to land and traditional ecological knowledge.