You probably first heard Adam Shatz’s name on Twitter, where people were annoyed at an article that was published in the London Review of Books, in which he leveraged the work of the Martiniquan psychoanalyst, theorist and revolutionary Franz Fanon into a critique of Hamas’ Al-Aqsa flood operation of 7 October 2023, which hinged on a distinction between ‘violence as a cleansing force’ as opposed to ‘violence as a