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.
This open letter is a starting point for the climate movement to develop principled solidarity with Palestine that connects climate justice with the struggles of colonized peoples worldwide.
Beneath the veneer of a celebrated concern for human rights, the racism that defined 19th century colonialism continues to provide the dominant lens through which the West exercises the subordination of non-Western populations.
We are in an era of academic metaphors where critical recognition is divorced from recognized reality. Many academics write on decolonization but hardly engage with actual forms of undoing injustice.
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 events of October 7 have reminded us that resistance to settler colonialism is ever-present. The only way forward is decolonization, and that requires us to foreground a political solution.
The affinity between the West and Israel is due in part to an affinity with white settler life. Our task, in face of the ongoing Israeli onslaught in Gaza and the ongoing white settler attachment to it, is to struggle against this social order.
Recent Israeli legislation around “nationalistically motivated” sex crimes must be seen in the context of Israel’s militarized regime of homonationalism, racialized and sexualized settler colonialism, and pinkwashing.
The Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism seeks to create an intellectual and political community that is grounded in solidarity with those most harmed by Zionism and in uplifting their voices.
Israeli settler colonialism and apartheid is based on the extermination of the indigenous population and the elimination of their hope of living freely. Palestinian children represent that hope.