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On the subject of settlers: Joseph Pugliese, ‘(De)constituting Settler Subjects: A Retrospective Critical Race-Decolonizing Account’, in Debbie Bargallie, Nilmini Fernando (eds), Critical Racial and Decolonial Literacies: Breaking the Silence, Bristol University Press, 2024, pp. 62-76 »

Denial (about settler colonialism): Lorenzo Veracini, ‘Germany’s anti-antisemitic complex and the question of settler colonialism’, Settler Colonial Studies, 2024

03Sep24

Abstract: This discussion article argues that contestations about antisemitism in current German public discourse and an uncompromising and institutionally mandated support for Israel, even in the face of plausibly genocidal actions, are related to and enabled by an unreconstructed embrace of a settler colonialist ethos. In this context, an unwillingness to come to terms with a history of colonial violence is only one component among multiple determining factors. And yet the question of settler colonialism, while not immediately recognisable, should be recovered and foregrounded to explain the operation of what is here defined as an anti-antisemitic complex, where institutions, the media, and the law combine to enforce a ban on discussions of Israeli history and policies towards Palestinians.


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