#wikipedia #regavim

Today, the Hebrew #Wikipedia functions as settler-colonial propaganda, naturalizing ethnic cleansing through environmental and legal frameworks.

Hebrew edition (translation):

[…] “Regavim is a right-wing Israeli movement and organization established in 2006 with the goal of establishing ‘a Jewish and Zionist agenda for the State of Israel in land and environmental aspects,’ for the purpose of ‘protecting the lands of the Jewish people and the natural and landscape treasures of the Land of Israel.’”

Problems:

1. Uses neutral-to-positive framing: “movement,” “protecting,” “treasures”

2. Emphasizes environmental protection discourse

3. No mention of (illegal) settler connections in opening (implied when mentioning founders like Smotrich or the term “green line”)

4. Uses biblical terminology “Land of Israel” (ארץ ישראל) instead of occupied territories (a term used nowhere in the Hebrew Wikipedia as far as I know)

The Hebrew version omits/minimizes the following:

1. Forced displacement of Palestinians - never uses terms like “ethnic cleansing” or “forcible transfer”

2. Violence against Palestinians - no mention of how Regavim’s legal actions facilitate settler violence

3. International condemnation - no mention of US Congressional calls for sanctions

4. Academic characterization as “settler-colonial” - absent, duh 🧐

5. The Khan al-Ahmar case - minimal coverage despite being emblematic

6. School demolitions - not mentioned (e.g., Bat Zuwaydin Secondary School near Hebron where “members of Regavim posted leaflets on the walls…calling for the school’s destruction”)

But it gets worse. Neither version adequately conveys that Israel’s permit system in Area C makes it virtually impossible for Palestinians to build legally (Palestinian permit approval rates are approximately 1-2%). According to UN Secretary-General reports, this permit denial system combined with demolitions creates “a coercive environment that contributes to displacement that may amount to forcible transfer, which is a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention”.

The Wikipedia is clearly not a neutral encyclopedia. While the Hebrew version shows how Israeli civil society narratives naturalize occupation, the English version shows how even international “critical” discourse still employs colonial frameworks.

Example: the phrasing “lacking Israeli permits” in the English edition treats Israeli military permit system as legitimate “law”.

A #decolonized language might be something like this:

“Regavim monitors and reports Palestinian construction to Israeli military authorities for demolition, exploiting a permit system designed to make Palestinian building virtually impossible”

And yes, Regavim’s expansion into #Gaza (naming of #Rafah checkpoint) must be understood within this genocidal context.

See:

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/2/2/regavim-israels-new-rafah-border-site-carries-coded-annexation-message

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2611354/middle-east

#wikipedia #regavim #decolonized #gaza #rafah #palestine #zionism #SettlerViolence #israel #gazagenocide #dromoelimination #ethniccleansing

[Thread] The next installment from #KleeBenally 's book, #NoSpiritualSurrender. This may feel like an attack to some, but read his words all the way through. He spoke truth!

"The ‘Green New Deal,’ like its parent ‘Green Economics’ are meant to sustain the US #settler colonial project and the #capitalist relations whose interest lay within the specificity of continuing the ongoing exploitation (destruction) of the whole of the Earth, while cashing in of course. In the case of the Green New Deal, which in many ways begat its own child, that of the Red New Deal, who aside from outright plagiarizing, fronting, and co-opting the long-term #Indigenous #ClimateJustice work, the Red Nation’s ‘Red New Deal,’ proposes an anti-capitalist and woefully limited anti-colonial response that not only reinforces #industrialization but ultimately leads to the ongoing participation in capitalism proper, just ‘renamed’ and ‘reformed’ under a ‘transitional’ Socialist Rubric, that leads to their Marxist organization’s propositions for a ‘#decolonized’ authoritarian worker-run state as the best solution. So while we’re collectively dying from the air we can’t breathe, the water we can’t drink, or both priced out of accessibility in the here and now, we are meant to await the building of yet another Socialist Utopia. A utopia belt upon the current dystopia of growing wastelands and climate disasters on every continent. From deadly #nuclear power to lithium and rare Earth mineral #mining, the the privatization of water, the greening of any economy is still a war against #MotherEarth and all existence."

Pages 137-138

#IndigenousAnarchy
#Ecosystem
#DefendTheSacred
#CorporateColonialism #Greenwashing #NoLithiumMining #WaterIsLife