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the cognitive dissonance displayed in some posts about palestine by white americans etc is absolutely fucking astounding. i really really need you to understand that the horrific genocidal process of land expropriation we are witnessing in sheikh jarrah is how all of israel was settled, how every settler colony was established, and that that violence and theft are ongoing not just in occupied palestine but where you live. in the united states and canada and australia and new zealand and new caledonia and french polynesia and the french antilles and and and. and that if you don’t understand settlerism, the ideology behind it and the mechanisms through which it is enacted; if you do not see the material connection between standing rock and gaza, you cannot be effective allies to palestinians because you do not actually understand what is happening in palestine. that the dispossession and murders have an end goal, and it is the establishment of a colonial state that looks like yours. of a country where natives don’t exist, or exist in such minuscule numbers that large scale resistance becomes impossible. the end goal is annihilation. what appears like “senseless” brutality does have a purpose, and it is a purpose that is fundamentally incompatible with the existence of palestinians. and when you see pictures and videos from jerusalem, you need to remember that the land you are standing on was and continues to be settled through the same processes. not so that you can feel useless guilt, not to derail from the urgency of the situation in palestine; but specifically so that you can contextualize the genocide of palestinians and where it fits in the colonial timeline. so that you can understand talks of two state solutions and nuance and “both sides” the same way you understand manifest destiny and unceded land and one-sided treaties. and so that you can finally develop an internationalist political approach to indigenous struggle and liberation and imperialism, and start fighting the correct enemies where you live in the belly of the beast, because that is what you have to offer and what will help colonized people everywhere.

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@anarcho-queer-mandalorian said:
…..aren’t jewish ppl indigenous to Israel though?

the word indigenous describes a specific relation to colonialism and to regional structural power, it does not simply mean “originally from/autochtonous to a given piece of land”. in the context of a racially organized settler state, claiming the dominant group that holds all judicial and political power is “indigenous” is absurd and literally goes against the definition of the word. it also negatively impacts native struggle globally by muddying people’s understanding of indigeneity and what the needs and demands of indigenous people are. incidentally, this was half the point of my post.

the jewish diaspora is spread across the world, and has been for more than two thousand years. they have throughout that time become integrated within various countries and cultures, developing their own unique ethnocultural identities, which is why terms like ashkenazi and mizrahi and sephardi exist. the denial and erasure of jewish european, african and asian national and cultural identities in order to retroactively justify the zionist project is one of the ways in which zionism is also harmful to jews.

may i also suggest:
1) this thread by rabbi andrue kahn

2) when does a native become a settler? by yuval evri and hagar kotef

3) my own post about global conceptions of indigeneity

4) this thread by em cohen

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