Tag: colonization
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Abolishing the United States’ empire of policing
As US imperialists succeeded in policing experiments on the other side of the world in the early 20th century, irrational hysteria gripped domestic elites that were threatened by a boiling US labor movement. Their fears of a militant left-wing insurrection were widespread, and in response, they sought support from the coercive state by applying repatriated…
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The Psychological Terrorism of Witnessing Genocide in Gaza
I’m expected to live in a world that wants me to disappear, a world that says violence against me is acceptable, that atrocities against me and my people are acceptable. I feel battered. I feel like my soul has been shattered, my heart broken, and they will never heal. We Palestinians, like our fellow Indigenous…
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The Death of Slavery, The First Dawn of Freedom
An organized clandestine underground network to resist the slave state was not inevitable. The path of fatalism and despair, a pale specter that still haunts many would-be rebels today, was just as likely. In those days, given the seemingly low odds of success, an overwhelming feeling of helplessness doubtless consumed many hearts. Courageous people, most…
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Israel’s Sharpeville moment
It is often imagined that world opinion was always united in its opposition to apartheid in South Africa, and that Palestinians are doomed because the West rejects them and their cause. It is true that India severed all ties with white-ruled South Africa as early as 1946. But it was an exception.
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Introduction to Palestine, part 5
Today, the Palestinians expelled during the Nakba and the Naksa and their descendants form the majority of the Palestinian people worldwide. Situated mostly in refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Palestine, they continue to be denied the right of return despite many still holding the original deeds and keys to their houses, now expropriated…
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Introduction to Palestine, part 4
All of these shortcomings are often countered with the assertion that Palestinians must compromise to reach peace. Israeli control is treated as a fait accompli and that Palestinians must deal with it, rather than demand justice. This is the whole premise of the two-state solution, that Palestinians must compromise on their rights to be granted…
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Introduction to Palestine, part 3
The revisionism surrounding the 1967 war is one of Israel’s most significant propaganda achievements. Suddenly, reality is flipped on its head, and the powerful aggressor becomes an underdog fighting to stave off extermination, though no such threat really existed.
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Introduction to Palestine, part 2
The mandate and the Nakba This article was originally posted on the site Decolonize Palestine, and is being shared here per their CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 policy This is part 2 of our introduction articles. We highly recommend reading them in order. As we learned in the previous article, the fall of the Ottoman empire, the…
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Introduction to Palestine, part 1
This article does not aim to delve into the minutiae of this Palestinian history, indeed entire books could be -and have been- written on the subject. Rather the goal of this introduction is to describe the political context that lead up to the modern Palestinian question.
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