Genocide, the latest stage of a dying settler colonialism: Faris Giacaman, ‘Netanyahu’s willing executioners: how ordinary Israelis became mass murderers: After ten months of relentless genocidal war, it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that both the Israeli state and society are partners in the genocide. The picture that emerges is a genocide from above and below’, Mondoweiss, 30/07/24 | settler colonial studies blog

Genocide, the latest stage of a dying settler colonialism: Faris Giacaman, ‘Netanyahu’s willing executioners: how ordinary Israelis became mass murderers: After ten months of relentless genocidal war, it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that both the Israeli state and society are partners in the genocide. The picture that emerges is a genocide from above and below’, Mondoweiss, 30/07/24

03Aug24

Excerpt: Drawing historical analogies is always tricky, not least because political regimes and their underlying motivations for carrying out atrocities during war vary wildly. The kind of imperial German racial supremacy that was part of the genocide of European Jewry was different from the settler colonial imperative of the “elimination of the native” that characterized the genocide of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas by European colonists, or indeed the Zionist movement’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948 or the Gaza genocide today. But despite these differences, a common thread still runs through them, and so drawing these comparisons becomes unavoidable.

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