This article tries very hard to imply that it’s a fundamentally novel concept (adopted by naive young activists) to conceive of Israel as a colonial enterprise. He doesn’t say this directly, but this works very well with the “youth support Palestine because they’re brainwashed by TikTok” narrative.
It doesn’t seem to occur to the author that the reason he’d never heard it before is because the US has just never really seen such vocal defense for Palestine.
Or go further back and listen to jabotinsky’s words in “the iron wall”, a formative document that explicitly frames the Zionist national project in terms of colonialism and ethnic cleansing http://en.jabotinsky.org/media/9747/the-iron-wall.pdf
Except for those who were born blind, (moderate Zionists) realised long ago that it is utterly impossible to obtain the voluntary consent of the Palestine Arabs for converting
“Palestine” from an Arab country into a country with a Jewish majority.
Every native population in the world resists colonists as long as it has the slightest hope of being able to rid itself of the danger of being
colonised.
Zionist colonisation must either stop, or else proceed regardless of the native
population. Which means that it can proceed and develop only under the protection of
a power that is independent of the native population – behind an iron wall, which the
native population cannot breach.
This article tries very hard to imply that it’s a fundamentally novel concept (adopted by naive young activists) to conceive of Israel as a colonial enterprise. He doesn’t say this directly, but this works very well with the “youth support Palestine because they’re brainwashed by TikTok” narrative.
It doesn’t seem to occur to the author that the reason he’d never heard it before is because the US has just never really seen such vocal defense for Palestine.
Anyways in case anyone encounters this bird-brained position in the wild I’m linking to Fayez Sayegh’s Zionist Colonialism in Palestine (1965)
Very inconvenient that theodore fucking herzl calls it colonization. Or it would be if liberals ever encountered history in a dark alley.
Or go further back and listen to jabotinsky’s words in “the iron wall”, a formative document that explicitly frames the Zionist national project in terms of colonialism and ethnic cleansing http://en.jabotinsky.org/media/9747/the-iron-wall.pdf
Whoah good pull I’d never heard of that