When we began planning a special issue of the Jerusalem Quarterly around the theme of food and foodways, it was impossible to imagine that we would be releasing it one year into Israel’s genocidal assault on Palestinians and the intentional starvation of Gaza’s population. The contributions to this issue draw our attention to the cultural, economic, environmental, and political dimensions of food. They expose how the starvation of Palestinians in Gaza is yet another link in a long process of disrupting and sabotaging the Palestinian food system and hijacking Palestinian food. In doing so, they insist (and Palestinian suffering in Gaza affirms) that food is always about the identity, resilience, survival, and resistance of the collective.
JQ 98 is now available online and in paper form.
Enjoyable reading!