No amount of convincing and irrefutable evidence of the genocide will convince Western leaders to halt support for Israel, because it isn’t in their interests. The only thing that will stop the genocide is to make it more costly than profitable.
The colonization of Palestine is not an anomaly in the liberal global order but its most glaring indictment. It exposes the hypocrisy of an international system that decries colonialism while institutionalizing and legitimizing it.
Israel’s founding myth of “making the desert bloom” could only work if it eliminated all traces of the society that came before it. That’s why Zionism has always sought to erase the Palestinian people, from the Nakba to the genocide in Gaza.
We need to build an infrastructure of confrontation to resist Israel’s coming onslaught on the West Bank. The first step to doing so is by building self-reliance and reclaiming food sovereignty.
The question we have to ask ourselves is not whether we condemn Hamas, but whether we condemn a settler colonial regime that makes armed struggle necessary for survival.
Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian’s detention confirms what the BDS movement has long argued: Israeli universities are first and foremost instruments of the state and agents of Zionism’s project of dispossession and apartheid rule.
The problem isn’t just with Benjamin Netanyahu. It is with Zionist settler colonialism.
Genocide is Israel’s latest policy, alongside ethnic cleansing and apartheid, in its settler colonial project of eliminating the Palestinians.
Underlying the unqualified American support for Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza are feelings of white guilt over antisemitism, which have been projected onto a people that had nothing to do with the crimes committed against Jews in Europe.
Palestinian resistance is a decolonial struggle against Israeli settler colonialism and U.S. imperialism. This resistance is also confronting the brutal nature of colonial modernity, which is exemplified in Zionism.