and so defined the rightful Palestinian inhabitants of Palestine apophatically, or by negation, as what they were not.

rethink ontology through an existence awareness and demonstration of lexical instability (cue apophatic poetics)

Apophatic is the term applied to a theology which seeks knowledge of God through what he is not rather than through what he is. A kind of negative theology.

A political via negativa, an apophatic revolutionism

the discourse o f the limits of words, of what is not and cannot be said. Its name comes from the Greek term meaning 'negation' or 'denial'. It is called apophasis.