Gaza and the legacy of the British imperial master narrative: a decolonial reading

The Palestinian issue is the bloodiest wound caused by settler colonialism in the last one hundred years, rooted in the history of 19th-century European imperialism and, even more so, in the history of British imperial and colonial history. Indeed, Britain has played a big and pivotal role in controlling and managing what the decolonial thinkers call “coloniality of power” through history. This article tries to trace the “origin” of the Palestinian Question historically and epistemologically by reading against the grain the master narrative of the British Empire in the Middle East since the Balfour Declaration in 1917.