Colonial Convergence

Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, who teaches at the University of #Haifa, #israelPalestine, explained the paradox: “One can detest Jews and love Israelis, because Israelis somehow are not Jews. Israelis are colonial fighters and settlers, just like Afrikaners. They are tough and resilient. They know how to dominate. Jews are different. They are, among other qualities, gentle, non-physical, often passive, intellectual. So one can go on disliking Jews while admiring the Israelis.”

Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, "The Israeli Connection. Who Israel Arms and Why", Pantheon Books, New York, 1987; cited by Alain Gresh: https://africasacountry.com/2009/08/south-africa-and-israel/ @israel

#history #support #antisemitism #judeophobia #raceMaking #politics #manipulation #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Apartheid #israelApartheid #quotes #SouthAfrica #ZA #Zionism #colonialism #armsTrade #solidarity #allyship #allies

"The Campaign Against Antisemitism #CAA was formed in 2014, after a previous Israeli bombardment of Gaza. Its explicit founding purpose was to counter the antisemitism that arises in Britain when Israel pummels Palestinians and, implicitly, to defend Israel’s right to pummel. Chief executive Gideon Falter is also vice chairman of the Jewish National Fund #JNF UK, which is reported to have provided funding to the CAA in the past. The JNF enjoys charitable status and its existence predates the Balfour Declaration. For over a century, it has bought up land in historic Palestine, helped plan the Nakba, furthered exclusive Jewish settlement and transformed colonised land into parks and forests to erase what had been before."

On respectability politics and #philosemitism: https://vashtimedia.com/2023/12/01/formats/opinion/a-long-way-from-cable-street-antisemitism-march-palestine/ @history @histodons

#Diaspora #Zionism #conflation #confusion #StandWithIsrael #terrorism #coloniality #proZionism #antisemitism

"Palestine, as George Orwell pointed out in 1945, is a ‘colour issue’, and this is the way it was inevitably seen by Gandhi, who pleaded with Zionist leaders not to resort to terrorism against Arabs using Western arms".

Pankaj Mishra in #LRB: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n06/pankaj-mishra/the-shoah-after-gaza

#rightToExist #nationalism #trauma #raceMaking #proZionism #Zionism #coloniality #JewishSupremacy #israel #colorLine #Modi #manliness #armsTrade #brutalization #violence #genocide #genocideJoe #Germany #Shoah #colonialism #terrorism

"At a talk in Brooklyn [in 1985, Primo] Levi, asked for his opinion on Middle East politics, started to say that ‘Israel was a mistake in historical terms.’ An uproar ensued, and the moderator had to halt the meeting."

Pankaj Mishra in #LRB: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n06/pankaj-mishra/the-shoah-after-gaza

#rightToExist #nationalism #trauma #Brooklyn #Zionism #coloniality #JewishSupremacy #israel #colorLine #ElieWiesel #Holocaust #PrimoLevi #manliness #armsTrade #brutalization #violence #genocide #genocideJoe #Germany #Shoah #colonialism #terrorism #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #philoSemitism

In Our Palestine Question, Geoffrey Levin shows how American Jewish critics of Israel were dislodged from Jewish institutions in the decades following the state’s formation. ‘The question of the Arab refugees is a moral issue which rises above diplomacy,’ William Zukerman, the editor of the Jewish Newsletter, wrote in 1950. ‘The land now called Israel belongs to the Arab Refugees no less than to any Israeli. They have lived on that soil and worked on it… for twelve hundred years… The fact that they fled in panic is no excuse for depriving them of their homes.’ Under Israeli pressure, Zukerman lost his job as a New York correspondent for the London-based Jewish Chronicle. Arthur Lourie, the Israeli consul general in New York, exulted in his firing: ‘a real MITZVAH’.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n12/adam-shatz/israel-s-descent

#conflation #rightToExist #nationalism #trauma #nyc #Zionism #coloniality #JewishSupremacy #israel #manliness #genocide #LRB #colonialism #Jewish #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #israelism #diaspora

• #Antisemitism must be vigorously challenged as a pillar of Eurocentric white supremacy.
• #Zionism is a specific political ideology and form of ethnonationalism that drove the establishment of the state of Israel and maintains the illegal occupation of Palestine.

"The primary goal of the IHRA definition is not to fight antisemitism or to protect Jewish communities from racist attacks, predominantly carried out by white supremacists; it is a mechanism to suppress advocacy for Palestinian rights. Of the definition’s 11 examples, seven deem criticism of Israel or Zionism to be antisemitic."

Harsha Walia wrote an excellent primer on deliberate #conflation: https://monitormag.ca/articles/colonialism-racism-and-the-ihra/ via @KarenWyld

#IHRA #philoSemitism #nationalism #ethnicCleansing #racism #coloniality #politics #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #fragility #censorship #NeverAgain #reputation #rightToExist #trauma #JewishSupremacy #whiteSupremacy #CanadaIsrael #colonialism #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Canada #Toronto #schools #HarshaWalia

Watch a conversation with Diana Buttu (a Palestinian-Canadian lawyer and a former spokesperson for the Palestine Liberation Organization) about the support of the United States to the israeli escalations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asETBWThM0g

(with Spanish subtitles)

#supremacy #dehumanization #USWars #war #nationalism #genocide #ethnicCleansing #racism #coloniality #politics #propaganda #rightToExist #JewishSupremacy #whiteSupremacy #colonialism #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #MiddleEast #imperialism #ideology #USA #USPol #DianaButtu #GenocideJoe #Zionism #stateViolence #islamophobia #ongoingNakba #USIsrael #escalations

Long read: British rule in Palestine during the 1920s and 1930s enabled Zionist colonisation at the expense of Palestinians.

A.Bustos, "How Britain supported Zionism and prevented Palestinian freedom": https://www.declassifieduk.org/how-britain-supported-zionism-and-prevented-palestinian-freedom/ @palestine @histodons 🧶

#Zionism #Balfour #StandWithIsrael #terrorism #coloniality #proZionism #antisemitism #CAA #JNF #Britain #UK #philosemitism #longRead #Palestine #colonialism #Diaspora #MiddleEast #BritishEmpire #BritishRule

Wilderness wildfires

"Beyond introducing foreign species to the landscape, the settler population sought to rid the land of any trace of what had existed before. Prior to the Nakba, the area of the Jerusalem Hills that last week’s fires tore through was heavily populated, with many villages spread across the landscape. Indeed, the expansive "Ayalon-Canada" forest, planted by the KKL in 1972 and now nearly entirely burnt to the ground, had already suffered two waves of devastation, albeit of another kind, in both 1948 and 1967.

"Beneath the remains of its trees may be found the ruins of four Palestinian villages: approximately 6,000 people once lived, farmed, and played there. With olive groves, fruit orchards, fields of grain, terraced farms and vegetable plots aplenty, the Jerusalem Hills were quite productive."

https://vashtimedia.com/land-tells-truth-jerusalem-wildfires/ @palestine @israel

#landManagement #landscape #Zionism #proZionism #JNF #KKL #Palestine #colonialism #BritishEmpire #BritishRule #wildfires #wilderness #pineTrees #Nakba

"The calamitous turning point of Israel's political culture occurred when the Zionist movement was taken over by the Russian political sect, particularly those from the Second Aliya (the 1904-1914 wave of Jewish immigration to #Palestine). Russian culture possesses noble aspects and achieved intellectual and cultural summits. But at the end of the 19th century and start of the 20th, Russia underwent dramatic political upheavals that engendered a brutal political culture that scorned tolerance and enlightenment."

by Ofri Ilany: https://archive.ph/DhflH#selection-873.0-873.527 via @oatmeal @israel @histodons 🧶

#settlers #Bolshevism #socialism #Revolution #RussianJews #Zionism #Revisionism #Revisionists #supremacy #RussianSupremacy #Russia #Ukraine #nationalism #ethnicCleansing #racism #coloniality #NeverAgain #rightToExist #JewishSupremacy #whiteSupremacy #colonialism #Aliyah #Russians #Mapai #Labour #LabourParty #JewishState #israel #immigration #immigrants #MittelEuropa #PaleOfSettlement #history #Kibbutz #Kibbutzim #expansionism