#settler colonists

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

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[astercrash]

"The Left at home is embarrassed; they know the true situation of the natives, the merciless oppression they are submitted to; they do not condemn their revolt, knowing full well that we have done everything to provoke it. But, all the same, they think to themselves, there are limits; these guerrillas should be bent on showing that they are chivalrous; that would be the best way of showing they are men."

-Jean-Paul Sartre in the preface to Franz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth

[gay-jewish-bucky]

turning off rb's on popular queer posts when they get notes to avoid the inevitable "op is a zionist" drama over people who refuse to let jews define jewish words

[notetaeker]

[shih-coulda-had-it]

my sister and i made a book bingo for 2024 and one of the categories she chose was romantasy and i rarely, rarely do this, but i MUST tell you that my pick for romantasy (a far wilder magic by allison saft) has me looking up one-star reviews on goodreads to validate my feelings.

[tabby-shieldmaiden]

Still thinking of that one person who wrote that one critique of MLP:FIM about its handling of race where the author assumes that the grey ponies being guards for Celestia was sending a message that dark skinned people's natural place was to serve white people. It's like, I can picture the shape of a better phrased criticism the writer was gesturing towards (whiteness being associated with purity and power has potentially racist implications). But it was still a little bit of a reach which does kind of ignore much of the in-universe rules the world had set up about race and racialisation. Especially considering this is a show whose first season also included more episodes where there was area for more substantial critique to be done. And within the in-universe frameworks provided in the show at that. (*ahem* Zecora, *ahem* The Buffalo.)

[luxlucislucia]

No way did someone just send me a message on my ANIMORPHS blog asking if they were blocked and they got "proud z1on1st" in their bio.. what do you think

[genderqueer-karma]

tumblr fix your shit before i find y’all’s hq and stab your ceo. idc. because y’all are playing games with these ads now

idk how to explain that i would rather jump off of a cliff than buy a pin that says “i support settler-colonialism and here’s a pin to prove it.”

THE FUCK DO I LOOK LIKE ????

THE “CONFLICT” BETWEEN THESE TWO PARTIES IS NOT EQUALLY MATCHED!!! PEOPLE ARE LITERALLY GETTING KILLED IN THE STREETS FOR WANTING TO STAY IN THEIR OWN HOMES!!! THEY WILL LITERALLY BE PEACEFULLY WORSHIPPING AND LOVING AND CARING FOR THEIR FAMILIES AND ALL THOSE BEAUTIFUL HUMAN THINGS AND LIVING THEIR LIVES… WHILE RISKING BEING MURDERED JUST FOR EXISTING IN A PLACE THEY ARE INDIGENOUS TO.

“ISRAEL”, AS IT EXISTS NOW, IS NOT THAT OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO. THE PEOPLE WHO CURRENTLY RESIDE THERE AFTER TAKING OVER IN 1947 ARE DOING TO OTHERS WHAT THEY SUPPOSEDLY DIDN’T WANT FOR THEMSELVES: TO BE MISTREATED JUST FOR EXISTING AND WANTING A PLACE WHERE THEY WOULD BE SAFE.

so, no. i won’t really “stand” for israel. i don’t want that fucking pin and if i see this ad again i’m buying a ticket to california or wherever the fuck and stabbing the ceo (or whoever!! i don’t give a fuck!!) of tumblr 1,947 times.

good morning, everyone.

[notetaeker]

I see people opposing palestine by saying that Jews in Isra*l have a right to exist. Yes. Of course they do have a right to exist. As if THATS the issue that this is about. The holy land is for everyone. Everyone has a right to exist there, regardless of faith, and that includes Palestinians.

Israel tho?? As a country that is destroying people’s houses while they are living in it, telling people they have an impossibly short amount of time to evacuate before they bomb the hell out of them so they can take all the land ???? That is not ‘right to exist’ that is manifest destiny my friends. fueled by a superiority complex.

Jews ALWAYS have a right to exist and they have always existed and lived in Palestine. You can’t want to rid a land of its inhabitants in cruel ways (like using white phosphorous, bulldozing homes) and then complain that people are mad that you’re there and be like ‘oh gee how could these people be so hateful toward Me??’ 💀💀 like do u have no shame

[rebelwithacauze]

[hummussexual]

This country is insane. What does so-called "Pro-Palestinian bias" have to do with the USA? Imagine making such a move on behalf on other countries, like Japan or the UK. The US would never! So what is so exceptional about "Israel"?

[fairuzfan]

Epistemicide can be broadly defined as the destruction of knowledge systems and the knowledge that they generate. The Latin American sociologist Ramón Grosfoguel explains how epistemicide played a crucial role in Europe's colonization of the rest of the world, including the settler colonization of the Americas. It granted European philosophy an “epistemic privilege,” allowing it to become the “new foundation of knowledge in the modern/colonial world.”

In other words, it created a world in which only knowledge produced by European colonists and settlers was deemed legitimate, while colonized societies were compelled to construct new systems from scratch — often mirroring those of their colonizers — because their own systems had been destroyed. As a result, the structural conditions of knowledge production that facilitated the mechanisms of their colonialization also imposed constraints on their liberation.

[psychotrenny]

And people keep trying to justify Israel's existence on the basis that it is somehow a safe place for the preservation of Jewish people and their culture and not only is that an awful argument for establishing a Settler Colonist Apartheid State but it's not even true. Like the state is politically and economically dominated by Ashkenazi Jews from Northern Europe and their descendants. While not as severely mistreated as Palestinians, there is still a significant disparity between the European and Non-European Jews in terms of income and education. Non-European Jews are still regularly subject to interpersonal bigotry (hell earlier this year there was a news story about a viral video where Ashkenazi girls in a Purim made a skit mocking the Mizrahi) and Israel government policies towards non-Ashkenazi migrants have done severe damage to their social structure and cultural traditions. Not to mention the fact that the whole reason why many Mizrahi migrated in the first place was to escape the violence caused by European Jews committing atrocities in their name, tearing communities apart as neighbours that had peacefully co-existed for centuries found themselves on opposite sides of this new ethno-religious conflict

There have even been attempts in Israeli history at the forceful assimilation or even biological reduction of non-European Jews; the kidnapping and adoption of Yemeni Jewish children in the 1950s is significant example of the former while the forced contraception of Beta Israeli (Ethiopean Jewish migrants) with the explicit intention of reducing their population's birth rate is an example of the latter. There's also very clear favouritism when it comes to recent converts; white Afrikaner converts are given the right of Aliyah while Nigerian Igbos are not. Like the fact of the matter is that Israel's fundamental nature is as a European Settler Colony, incredibly racist not only towards the indigenous Palestinians but the many Non-European Jews it claims to represent. It's an outpost of Western Imperialism, not a haven for the Jewish people. If it was ever meant to be the latter than it has failed miserably

[former-leftist-jew]

You should also read "The Wandering Jew Has Arrived" by Albert Londres.

Published in 1930, it was written by a French Christian journalist who spent a year living and traveling among Jewish ghettos, from the East End (read: poor end) of London all the way to Ukraine, before traveling to Palestine to witness this new-fangled, unpopular "Zionism" movement.

Since Albert Londres wasn't Jewish (or Arab) and thus didn't have any skin in the game, this is as unbiased a source as you're going to read from someone who actually lived during that time, and tried to faithfully record the thoughts and feelings of those he met.

Which Jews was this new movement actually popular with? How many were against it? How many returned to Europe? How did the Arab Muslims feel about Jews in Palestine prior to 1948?

Here's a rare chance to read all about it from people who actually lived during that time and experienced it firsthand.

finished reading thru The Hundred Years' War On Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance by Rashid Khalidi and I cannot recommend it enough. A lot of people and, very likely, the average, person not completely blinded by Islamophobia and/or USamerican/European/British exceptionalism are probably at least moderately sympathetic to the Palestinian cause but I don't know how many of us actually understand the degrees by which Israel is based in settler colonial ideology, how it has continually attempted to subjugate and ultimately eradicate the Palestinian people, and the degree by which the US and Britain (but mostly the US ever since the Six Day War in 1967) have been complicit in this continual genocide.

This book is an amazing comprehensive guide on understanding the conflict and I genuinely think you should give it a read (or listen) if you want to learn more. It is one thing to feel sympathy and to declare support for a cause, but I think it is important to take a step further and educate yourself more on it. A ploy I have seen frequently by zionists is to tell people to "educate themselves" before commenting on this genocide, hoping to instill doubt and encourage silence. Well, here is your chance to educate yourself! I'm obviously biased in favor of this one as it is the first major text on the Palestinian genocide that I have read, but I fully believe in its quality.

You can find this book online in PDF format or, if you prefer, you can purchase a physical copy from many of the large retail bookstores; Barnes & Noble in the US sells it, and so does Waterstones in the UK. There is also an official audiobook that you can either purchase through many of the major audiobook distributors (though I recommend avoiding Amazon if it can be helped), but you can also obtain it via other means if necessary. It's actually currently up on YouTube in its entirety, though I won't link it here in case it gets taken down. (It's really easy to search for, just type in the books title + 'audiobook' into your preferred search engine or on YouTube itself and you'll find it. It's about 10 hours long which is a reasonable length for an audiobook). I'll include a link in this post to an overview/lecture/dialogue with the author Rashid Khalidi on the contents of the book conducted at Brown University in 2020.

I do ask you read this book. I think a lot of people already are. I checked a couple of online libraries that have a limited number of audiobook copies that had all been checked out and that to me implies that people do want to educate themselves. There's a sizeable stack of these books at the local bookstore I ocassionally shop at, front and center on the table in the history and world affairs section. It's not hard to find. I hope you all have a good day or evening and I know that if we all take the time to educate ourselves further and approach this genocide with a deeper understanding, we may be able to do something about it. Emotional pleas are not enough, they must be informed ones as well.

[makiruz]

I'll admit I did not expect someone who claims to be First Nations to display the arrogance of a white gringx; but then again he has "transmisogyny exempt" and minors Do Not Interact on his bio.

Okay bitches, and @rimurutempest if you're still listening:

You know how South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Middle East are different things but all part of the continent called Asia? Yeah, America is similar, it's one singular but it's divided in parts, the parts are not as different as Asia thanks to colonialism but the division still exists. Unless you want to tell me India isn't part of Asia you have to accept that it's possible for North and South America to be both different but also part of the same continent.

In that same vein it's entirely possible for Central America to be part of the same continent as North America, but not being part of North America itself; unless you think it's correct to say that China is part of the Middle East because they're in the same continent

Next, plaque tectonics are a bitch and you know continental division has nothing to do with that, it's post-hoc; borders have always been socially constructed.

Third, you are correct that "America" is a colonialist name (btw "settlers" is not the word I use for those people, but whatever); but you are also using it!

Fourth, "inventing unfounded notions" oh, fuck you you arrogant gringo. Just because you're ignorant of the world outside of the USA (or Canada, I suppose) doesn't mean it was made up or unfounded; the 5 Continent model is the one accepted by the Spanish speaking world and the Olympics (why do you think the logo has only 5 rings?). Also we outnumber you bitch, Spanish is the second most spoken language in the world, there are 100 million more of us than native English speakers, and we all agree there are only 5 continents

Also a note for everyone: Latin Americans carry a lot of resentment towards the USA and don't separate ethnicity from nationality the way gringxs do (well call a Latino "gringo" if they're born and raised in the USA, we don't give a fuck); so we do not care what race a gringx is, if they're gonna try to argue their country is called "America" and only their people are Americans, we will throw hands

Do not call USA "America" in front of Latin America unless you're ready for a fight; and I'm not joking right now, rivers of digital ink have been spilled on this topic. We even have a catchy song!

[jewish-sideblog]

Any time I see people call Israel a settler colonialist state I think about the history of the Mizrahi Jews who remained in Judea.

Mizrahi Jews in the seventh century, whose families had lived as native Israelites for 1,800 years, watching the Rashidun Caliphate move the first major wave of Arab Muslim migration into the imperial conquest they called "Military Palestine".

Mizrahi Jews who, over the course of the next 1,200 years, remained in the Levant. The ones who faced persecution, pogroms, and massacres under the Caliphates and Ottomans. The ones who stood strong and stayed put, as access to holy sites they had prayed at for three thousand years were taken from them. The ones who were faced with a choice between conversion and death, but chose neither.

Mizrahi Jews who watched as the modern State of Israel was established-- perhaps sighing in relief for just a moment. Maybe now, they would not be persecuted minorities in the land they had lived in for over three thousand years. Only to see other Mizrahim forced to flee their homes in Morocco, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, Iran... Muslim-ruled countries that, through official law or social persecution, intentionally forced other Middle Eastern Jews to leave their homes and settle in Israel.

And the Mizrahi Jews today, who are the majority of the population of Israel. Most Israelis today are either Mizrahim who had lived in what is now Israeli territory for millennia, or Mizrahim who lived nearby and were forced by Muslim-majority nations to immigrate to Israel. Now, they get called "settler colonists", they get called "Europeans", they get called "fascists" and "Zionists". The world accuses them of occupying and stealing Palestinian land.

What were they supposed to have done differently?

Edit 12/27/23: Not so friendly reminder that if your "rebuttal" is to blame the actions of the Israeli government on Israeli civilians, I'm not even gonna bother to read the whole thing. I'll start believing that's a valid argument when average Americans get brought to the Hague for what the US government did in Cambodia.