As feminist scholarship around gender and war continues to raise critical questions about agency, survival, and political mobilization, the position of domination often evades interrogation. This paper seeks to address this absence with regard to Israel and the occupation of the Palestinian Territories, investigating the function of gender in the production of political apathy among Jewish Israelis. The occupation, a form of illegal politico-military domination backed by structures, systems, and techniques of control, receives popular mandate within Israel’s 1949 borders not only through public support, but also through the relative silence of dissent. While the invisibility and intangibility of the occupation may provide convincing explanations for Jewish Israeli inaction, gender analysis reveals a series of processes through which individuals actively consent to domination. Drawing from one year of ethnographic research in Tel Aviv and West Jerusalem this paper explores how conflict, occupation, and war may generate contradictory reactions, thereby maintaining the collective sanction of violence.