Frequent Israeli pogroms and now the levelling of Gaza point to an increasingly genocidal Israeli society. But Zionism was genocidal before most Zionists were, and it has been catching up to Israelis ever since.
The fundamental principle of Kibush Hashmira (the conquest of guarding) in Palestine in the 1930s was tower and stockade. The entire history of Zionism and Israel is this history of anti-Palestine-ing.
In this essay, Jimmy Johnson contextualizes U.S. support for Israel as well as the various groups that comprise the U.S. Zionist movement(s) in the context of American settler colonialism by examining the ways in which white settler colonies interact and support each other. Settler colonialism is not limited to interactions between settler and native. It is an organization of power informing all settler society policies including foreign policy. One such foreign policy articulation is the way white settler colonies form alliances based upon recognizing each other as in a mirror.
An analysis of arms deals by Israel and the U.S. shows that Israel is a client state of the US. If its actions ever interfere with imperial interests, Israel is brought to heel, writes Jimmy Johnson.
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