What will happen to the Israelis in Palestine after Palestinians are liberated from Zionism? The choices facing the “Pied-Noirs” at the end of colonization in Algeria may give us an idea.
The French writer Sylvain Cypel went to Israel as a young man to join the army and build the country. Now he is deeply dismayed by its rightwing nativism and indifference to international human rights law and has penned a lacerating book about the threat of Zionism to Palestinians and to Jewish tradition.
Former Algerian female fighter Zohra Drif writes in her new memoir, “Perhaps the reader of today expects me to regret having placed bombs in public places frequented by European civilians. I do not. To do so would be to obscure the central problem of settler colonialism by trying to pass off the European civilians of the day for (at best) mere tourists visiting Algeria or (at worst) the ‘natural’ inheritors of our land in place of its legitimate children.”