“That Palestine is not a state is rather the minoritarian position in the world. After all, 71.5% of UN Member States recognise Palestinian statehood [...] One would not know this, however, just by looking at the scholarly literature coming out of the hegemonic centres of academic power in the world.”

“Creating states – or more accurately, deciding who gets the Westphalian seal of approval – is a project that goes back centuries and it is inescapably tied to the racial hierarchies and racist structures that build the edifice we call international law.”