Homological Correspondence: Israel as a Frontier of Global Domination

Abstract

This article offers a novel framing for enquiring the deep entanglement between Israel and Western-led global centers of domination. Moving beyond geopolitical reasonings and historical analogies, it locates this relationship within a dynamic space of homological correspondence, positioning Israel as its frontier. This space refers to a historicized relationship binding Israel and global centers through a shared infrapolitical plane underwriting colonial-capitalist modernity. The framing precludes exceptionalizing Palestine/Israel while carving out space attentive to political continuities, expansions, and frictions. Reflecting on center-frontier relations and engaging notions of exception, (in)security, and political violence across political geography, critical security studies, and settler colonial studies, the article reveals two interrelated movements encapsulated in the wave metaphor: one locating Israel as a wave-edge of intensification and expansion—colonial, territorial, economic, and military—which, second, constantly reverberates back into global centers realigning them to its forces. It concludes with notes on homological compression after 7 October 2023 and the destabilization of global order.