By saying a colonial state has a right to exist basically justifies its founding on top of the indigenous population. People have a right to exist, but not states. Especially those founded on the displacement of indigenous population.
I see lots of hand-wringing about everyday Israelis killed while ignoring the daily killings of everyday Palestinians by the IDF, emboldened settlers, and the fascists in govt. How can you expect Palestinians not to want to be free from the river to sea when they once were? They have been under the boot of colonizers and occupation for over 100 years.
The occupation is solely to blame for the abhorrent violence we’re seeing. And it’s a coalition of Palestinian groups, not just Hamas—an easy western target to dehumanize all Palestinians and essentially excuse the calls for outright genocide we’re seeing now.
You simply cannot expect the oppressed, the occupied, the subjugated, the displaced to resist in ways white westerns find acceptable. Hamas does not enjoy widespread Palestinian support but who else fights for the people’s right to exist? Who but these groups attempt to at least defend the populations in Gaza and the West Bank. What other means exist to break free?
Peaceful marchers are gunned down by the IDF. One of the most revolutionary grassroots nonviolent movements, BDS, is being actively criminalized across the US and EU. Social media accounts banned.
No one wants it this way but what other way is there? Paraphrasing a tweet I read, decolonization is, indeed, violent. But it pales in comparison to the violence of the initial colonization.
By saying a colonial state has a right to exist basically justifies its founding on top of the indigenous population. People have a right to exist, but not states. Especially those founded on the displacement of indigenous population.
I see lots of hand-wringing about everyday Israelis killed while ignoring the daily killings of everyday Palestinians by the IDF, emboldened settlers, and the fascists in govt. How can you expect Palestinians not to want to be free from the river to sea when they once were? They have been under the boot of colonizers and occupation for over 100 years.
The occupation is solely to blame for the abhorrent violence we’re seeing. And it’s a coalition of Palestinian groups, not just Hamas—an easy western target to dehumanize all Palestinians and essentially excuse the calls for outright genocide we’re seeing now.
You simply cannot expect the oppressed, the occupied, the subjugated, the displaced to resist in ways white westerns find acceptable. Hamas does not enjoy widespread Palestinian support but who else fights for the people’s right to exist? Who but these groups attempt to at least defend the populations in Gaza and the West Bank. What other means exist to break free?
Peaceful marchers are gunned down by the IDF. One of the most revolutionary grassroots nonviolent movements, BDS, is being actively criminalized across the US and EU. Social media accounts banned.
No one wants it this way but what other way is there? Paraphrasing a tweet I read, decolonization is, indeed, violent. But it pales in comparison to the violence of the initial colonization.