@NimerSultany@Alonso_GD And what is most egregious, settler colonialism is not only entirely apposite to Palestine, IT IS ONGOING, fully & flagrantly contemporary, unlike the paradigm cases of Australia, Canada, US et al Dispossession, expulsion, elimination continue, occur daily.
@NimerSultany@Alonso_GD The purported debunking/discrediting of the settler colonial analytic framework/paradigm is structured similarly to parallel 'anti-wokery' efforts-- polemical, uninformed critiques of established critiques (BLM, CRT, trans studies etc). Critique assassination.
@HenMazzig@GalGadot Her "haters" are the decent and just in solidarity with beleaguered Palestine. The State of Israel and the ideology of Zionism are an industrial factory of hatred.
@MiddleEastEye You could not make this up. The only thing shredded here is Israel's own diplomatic standing-- which it has itself been busy shredding for months (decades). Even among a long history of buffoonish, cartoonish UN presentations, this stands out.
@protosemite@JewishCurrents Recuperating the history & ferocity of Bundist/anarchist/leftist Yiddish-language anti-Zionism has never been more urgent. Particularly when it contextualises & complexifies Palestinian counter-violence. Superb intervention, superb translation.
@NimerSultany This is really a refusal to call a Nakba a Shoah-- either the 1948 Nakba, the ongoing 2023-24 Nakba, or the 1948-2023 'Cold Nakba'. Limiting applicability & distinguishing political from legal genocide operate to enforce Shoah-Nakba non-comparability (not equivalence).
@Amarmustafa_@amymcquire It's not just impunity, it's a conviction on the part of Zionists/supporters of the Israeli state & its policies of rectitude and virtue in the service of wrongful & vicious acts and views. See Saree Makdisi, Tolerance is a Wasteland.
@IlhanMN It is indeed "insanely dangerous" & your condemnation is courageous and commendable, all the more so amidst the silence. The responses condemning your condemnation are themselves "insanely dangerous"-- vile, violent, racist, misogynist.
@BreeNewsome Demand for 'safe space' on campuses sometimes hard to distinguish from insistence on White privileged space, a space insulated more from challenges to Whiteness than from antisemitic threats. Jewish/Zionist safety or White fragility?
@mattduss Ilhan creates the perfect storm, she is the ideal intersectional target: she unites against her Islamophobia, antiBlackness, and misogyny. She is a lightning rod for everything vile and vicious in contemporary US discourse.
@yarahawari If you substitute "state" for "regime" and "government", Sanders' remarks gain accuracy & trenchancy. Zionism and settler colonialism are not policies
@HilzFuld As a Jew, I am proud.
Proud that my brothers and sisters are breaking the decades-long stranglehold of Zionism on Judaism and Jewry.
Proud they are courageously and defiantly standing up to fascism, ethno-supremacism, and genocide, even when it wears a blue mogen david.
@BreeNewsome The reflexive & (generally) false accusations of AntiSemitism in mainstream & social media are themselves, constructively where not intentionally, antiBlack. AntiBlackness is everywhere in the weaponisation of AntiSemitism but no one calls it out.
@NohaAboueldahab@NimerSultany@Reuters@andmills when the history of these horrors is definitively compiled & analysed, we will be left to reckon with genocide & racialised/colonial violence as biotechnologically (+ digitally, cybernetically, dromologically &c) compounded, intensified, augmented
@BreeNewsome and Mizrachim had no interest whatsoever in Palestine historically, although they were the Jewish communities most geographically proximate to it
@BreeNewsome and by 'recruiting', I mean creating conditions which led to the precarity of Syrian, Iraqi, Algerian, Moroccan etc Jews and then directing their (induced) migration to Israel.
@BreeNewsome When it succeeded in colonising Palestine, it recruited Jews of colour (Sephardim/Mizrachim) to ensure settler numbers, culturally & legally whitening them vis-a-vis Palestinians.
@BreeNewsome No getting around the Whiteness of Zionism & its belated & tactical inclusion of Jews of colour. It was an Ashkenazi project, premised on a Eurocentric concept of diaspora.
@PrinceHAK33M @yall_black Most French Jews are North African and Arabic-speakers. Ashkenazi hegemony in the US & Israel has resulted in the whitening of Jews. See Lewis Gordon, Ella Shohat.