Image licensed under public domain In a speech before the UN General Assembly in 2021, young Palestinian poet Mohammed El-Kurd bluntly summarised the trajectory of the Israel-Palestine conflict since the Nakba, or initial ‘catastrophe’ of Palestinian displacement and dispossession: ‘The appetite for Palestinian lands – without Palestinians – has not abated for over seven decades’. Indeed, since 1948, Palestinian lives and cultures have never been free of the threat of symbolic and literal...