Puar’s The Right to Maim reframes disability through the concept of debilitation, arguing that bodily injury is not always accidental, exceptional or merely individual, but can be systematically produced by poverty, war, racism, imperialism and colonial rule. In Nimrod Ben Zeev’s review, Puar’s major contribution lies in challenging disability-rights frameworks that focus primarily on recognition, inclusion and capacity while neglecting populations whose bodies are deliberately exposed to injury. Her notion of the right to maim extends biopolitical theory beyond the sovereign “right to kill”: modern power may also govern by injuring, weakening and incapacitating bodies that remain economically or politically useful. The review identifies chapter four as the book’s centrepiece, where Puar applies this argument to Israeli policies toward Palestinians, particularly in Gaza, interpreting “shoot-to-injure” practices as a form of control that presents itself as humanitarian restraint while producing long-term bodily debility. Ben Zeev praises the book’s intellectual force but criticises its difficult prose and argues that some cultural claims about Palestinian attitudes toward death and disability require deeper engagement with Palestinian lived experience and cultural production. Even so, the review concludes that Puar’s broader framework is a crucial intervention, because it exposes how precarity is unevenly embodied: some populations are not simply neglected by power, but actively made vulnerable to injury as a condition of governance.