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Israel: A Colonial-Settler State? Maxime Rodinson
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Khalil Maqdesi: Our understanding, in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, of our enemy and of our conflict with this enemy, Israel, is very clear. On the other hand, concrete and . It is undeniable that Israel is a colonial settler state for European Jews that was founded on the backs of dispossessing the natives (Palestinians, Arabs, whatever you want to call them). Edward Said offers us a pertinent definition of imperialism, and settler colonialism. Therefore, the classification of the Zionist movement as a settler colonial project, and the Israeli state as its manifestation, is not merely intended as a statement on the historical origins of Israel, nor as a rhetorical or polemical device. In addition to calling on her own university, Rutgers, to divest from companies doing business with Israel, her ultimate ambitions were even more odious: “Israel is an apartheid, colonial settler state,” she said. In contrast, the settler Jewish population that resides outside the state's borders receives full political rights and is the most overrepresented Israeli group in the Israeli parliament and government. I've got just the one for you, not too long: Israel: A Colonial-Settler State? The UN General Assembly's overwhelming support in November 2012 of the establishment of a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders was another encouraging sign for peace and the end of Israeli colonial rule of Palestine. Struggles for building Palestine solidarity with a particular concern for African American linkages, accusations of anti-Jewish bigotry, and opposing not any particular policy of Israel, but this colonial settler state as a whole. Nevertheless immersing herself within the writing of Arendt allows Butler to put into intellectual circulation a series of revised and extended contributions to the debate on Israeli state violence and settler colonialism. President Obama must have recognized that Israel is a colonial-settler state seeking Palestinian lands pretty much the way the French settlers came to Algeria and the British colonialists came to Kenya in the last two centuries. Israel is a settler colonial state. On the other hand, the state of Israel's vaunted “right to exist” is based on an alleged “right” derived from might, an outmoded concept that international legal conventions do not recognize and in fact specifically prohibit. As this colonial project grew through subsequent years, the indigenous Palestinians reacted with occasional bouts of violence; Zionists had anticipated this since people usually resist being expelled from their land. Ask why we think it is kosher to financially and militarily support a colonial-settler state like Israel whose very existence is dependent on the elimination of indigenous peoples? The anti-apartheid activist, Pogrund, is stereotyping Arabs as oil rich and negating the idea that anyone might act against Israel on the principle that it is a colonial settler state based on ethnic cleansing and racist laws.