Daily reminder that The Most Moral Army of the so-called #Jewish (#Ashkenazi#whitesupremacist#settlercolonial) State tied up #patients (men, women, and children) and medical staff at #Nasser Hospital in #Gaza and executed them in cold blood before dumping their bodies in a mass grave.
The Israel lobby is attempting to indoctrinate Americans that the context for the October 7 attack is the Holocaust. This is a misrepresentation. The Palestinians had nothing to do with the Holocaust.
As I’m sure you are well aware Bossito, there is now a considerable amount of credible (as opposed to IDF) evidence which clearly shows that it is the #Israeli#military and other security services who are committing the mass murder, child torture/ murder, raping of women and girls, prisoner humiliation/ torture/ and other heinous war crimes and crimes against humanity!
So #Mondoweiss is absolutely correct to say that there is a context and it isn’t the #Holocaust! It’s the 75+ years of #SettlerColonial oppression that the #Apartheid state of Israel has been imposing on the indigenous #Palestinian population!
This reminds us that #policing - in #SettlerColonial societies like Canada - has always been a central force for dispossession, displacement & containment.
If you still can't tell what this fight in #Palestine is about, another nine of the illegal outposts in the #WestBank were retroactively authorized by the #IDF and Knesset. A #SettlerColonial project is operating openly, and far too few people care.
Highly, highly recommend this Politics Theory Other interview with Naomi Klein, about her recent book Doppelgänger. So many half articulated thoughts and feelings i have been having (about how the left critique relates to the popular right’s rejection of “the system”; and about the Holocaust/antisemitism in relation to other genocides/racisms) discussed with such clarity. Honestly, really , really recommend this. 1/3
3/3 Secondly, Naomi mentions this other PTO podcast with Sai Englert on #settlercolonialism. I just finished listening to this (a weekend of domestic chores!), and really recommend this too. So much historical breadth and analysis. Ends with very good discussion of whether Israel is a #SettlerColonial project; as Sai says, it boils down to to one group having the right to dispossess, the other to be dispossessed.
@AnnaAnthro I hope they do a good job with that. Most #FirstNations don't show up on a lot of maps or on road signs, and if they do, it's usually with their #SettlerColonial names and numbers. I stopped on the highway to have a cry when I saw that a road sign had been installed giving #Maskwacis its accurate name.
In May, the #Queensland Liberal-National opposition provided bipartisan support for legislation establishing a 3-4 year #TruthTelling process, as a necessary precursor to the (extremely belated) negotiation of a treaty or #treaties with Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples. And they did so in response to the #UluruStatementFromTheHeart (that had called for #Voice, #Treaty and #Truth).
At the time, opposition leader #DavidCrisafulli had personally encouraged people in his state to "embrace this [truth-telling] wholeheartedly". On the day the legislation passed, he said: "I believe in truth-telling and to me that means telling it like it is. […] We cannot shy away from the real experiences of #Indigenous Australians throughout history. We must tell the truth about the real challenges they are facing today."
But now, five months later yet before any of the formal processes of truth-telling have begun, he's withdrawn #LNP support for the legislation, promising to tear it up should his party be voted into government at the next election.
He claims he is doing so because he is listening—to the voices of the 'No' voters, who outnumbered the 'Yes' voters at last Saturday's #referendum.
@jillL One of the many 'polite' ways of saying "shut up, I don't want your voice to be heard anywhere near the levers of government". How many who used that line actually would have been happy if parliament went and legislated such a body?
The No campaign's primary raison d'être as well as its modus operandi was to provide as many spurious-but-respectable-sounding lines as possible for people to affirm their comfort with the #WhiteSupremacist#SettlerColonial#StatusQuo without needing to come out and say so directly.