Settler Colonialism
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European nazis used advanced technology to visit slaughter upon their victims, an industrial operation of transport, containment and murder; not only the scale of it appalls, but this quality of modernity. This new generation of nazis occupying Palestine also uses the latest technology, but to kill Palestinians where they are, without the need for a…
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Let us use the concept of translatio imperii—transfer of imperium (authority, rule)—as an experiment upon today’s geopolitics. This idea is an ideological manoeuvre whereby the authority of one regime was said to have transferred to another distinct regime, one that came later and was based elsewhere. So various European elites claimed that their State was…
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They insist on their unformed cognitive abilities, making a show of being stuck in the gap between cause and effect, demonstrating their existence in a continual now in which the past cannot be linked to anything taking place, or anything to be anticipated. So anticolonial violence is described as an explosion of inexplicable hatred and…
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Their unfinished, unfinishable status renders them stupid, lazy, fearful. The best recent example the present writer has come across was a settler whining that the tricolour of the Republic has green and orange on it (representing Catholics and Protestants), but that these colours are separate. Now, as everyone in the country knows, they are separated…
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Of course in Palestine, the settlers are still in the early phase of their aggression and openly admit to their status as invaders. For some settlers there is the ideology of manifest destiny, whereby the land is there for the taking, and they prove by their colonial efforts that they are the ones who deserve…
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Macdara has recently argued that settler colonists are ontologically reduced, and he thinks the point is worth expanding upon. And just as settlers themselves link every trivial detail of their experience to the larger-scale picture, that is, their status as invaders and occupiers, your correspondent will similarly zoom between the small details of everyday life…
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It is the great hope of this nearly hopeless citizen that Reunification will provide an opportunity not to shore up privilege in our country but to break it down. A loud and troublesome bloc of settler colonists sitting in Dáil Éireann is anathema to the Partionist Party of the current twenty-six county State. This is…
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Let us listen in, learn something of Imperialism, since the language allows it. The cleverest people in London discuss the world amongst themselves. Of course I don’t like nationalism, she says, in reference to Scotland; the concept of Britain, England’s drag name, allows her to live as if she is happily of no nation at…
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I In the lamentable 2020 Programme for Government signed by three parts of Ireland’s permanent Partitionist Party, we find that the English-language introduction ends with a single long sentence in Irish. Then at the end of the réamhrá that follows—this being the Irish-language introduction to the document, that is, a translation of the introduction that…
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VI We might feel that Palestine represents something of our past; that in Palestine we see the history of vicious European colonisation repeated in the media era. This is not untrue, but Macdara has been unsettled by the idea that in Palestine we see our future: an overwhelmingly asymmetrical relation between elites and the people.…