Settler Colonialism
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The attempted rejection of Comparison when it comes to Northern Ireland—that is, the rejection of history, of naming the Occupation Administration as a settler colonial project, an ongoing act of violence—has as a quite natural corollary the need to encourage the promotion of a new species of vocabulary, the specimens of which remind the observer…
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Writing about the census conducted in the Occupied Territories in 2021 presents the familiar problem of distinguishing between a religious label as it refers to religious practice, compared to its use as a stand-in for ethnic identity. The census collected two slightly different sets of figures, asking questions about religion, and about religion of upbringing;…
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Ulster was the site of the greatest resistance to colonialism. For this, it was subject to the greatest usurpation: extensive settler colonialism. There is no secret here. The heirs to this occupation boast of it, dream of it, live it. It is the condition of their being. They hate the natives with the familiar venom of settler colonists anywhere who…
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VII If it is wrong for Hamas to kill civilians, then it must also be wrong for Israel to do so, particularly since Israel is—we are told—a State, whereas Hamas is not. But many leaders accept that Israel can murder multiples of the numbers of its own dead, brown lives being so cheap. This, clearly, is to…
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IV What does it mean to say you support or condemn a particular action, the way that Palestinians and their defenders are asked to condemn Hamas? Anyone wishing to defend the rights of Palestinians to exist, and certainly to exist in their own homeland, is expected to start off with a condemnation of Hamas. This is a…
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I The reader will surely accept that Macdara was once a young man characterised by anger and a wild impatience with the idiocy of others. Now one means by which he was able to control this emotion was by refusing to engage with reporting on apartheid in Palestine; specifically, with the insult that the Settler State…