Category: Colonialism

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Explaining the Gaza genocide: Settler colonialism in Palestine – Pearls and Irritations

Palestinian Loss of Land 1947 to Present. israel vs Palestinian war. israel-Palestinian map

In a settler colonial state, the indigenous population has to be physically erased because they are an ongoing reminder of the violence and injustice that occurred at the foundation of the political community. Their continuing existence constitutes a legal and political challenge to the state’s legitimacy.

Noam Chomsky argues,

The movement that developed (ie the Jewish settlement of Israel) … is a settler-colonial society. Like the USA, Australia, the Anglosphere. Israel is one of them. It’s not a small point. If you take a look at the international support for Israel’s policies, it’s of course primarily the USA, but secondarily it’s the Anglosphere. Australia, Canada … I suspect there is a kind of intuitive feeling on the part of the population. Look, we did it, it must be right. So they are doing it, so it must be right. The settler-colonial societies have a different kind of mentality. We did exterminate or expel the indigenous population so there has to be something justified about it – superior civilisation or other ideas…. Israel has had the problem that it’s a twentieth-century version of a seventeenth – through nineteenth-century colonialism. That’s the problem.

 

Source: Explaining the Gaza genocide: Settler colonialism in Palestine – Pearls and Irritations

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Opinion | The War in Gaza Has Galvanized the Global Indigenous Solidarity Movement | Common Dreams

Activists were arrested for disrupting the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

Is this what the ALP Government is doing or are we simply another American State? Did the Uluru Statement consciously align with Palestine? We certainly revisited 19th century attitudes without the costumes watching Peter Dutton and his Native Police troopers Jacinta Price and Warren Mundine in action before the referendum but where are they now? Have they been packed back in the LNP’s fake history box to be used another day?

As Indigenous struggles around the world ally with the struggle of the Palestinians, colonial and neocolonial powers have no other option but to ally with colonial Israel.

Source: Opinion | The War in Gaza Has Galvanized the Global Indigenous Solidarity Movement | Common Dreams

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Settler Colonialism- Inherently Violent with a genocidal mentality along with the myth of salvation
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The racial contract of settler colonialism  – Pearls and Irritations

Close up photo of the word colonialism in a dictionary book. Image: iStock

It won’t be long before we hear politicians arguing about the “Democracy of Nth Korea” the way this term has come to be bandied about. After the referendum and with the LNP declaring Australia a Christian State calling Israel a Democracy seems more a smoke screen to stall us from questioning ours.

Jacinta Price demanded without acknowledging her mother to be funded an extra $ 12 M to set up a “re-education camp” (boarding school) for indigenous kids. It’s so like Abbott’s policy after he deducted $500M from their promised budget. He too cried for the need to re-educate “them” by getting them to school on time. Nothing akin to those Chinese camps the LNP claimed were against “human rights”. Price insists those at risk be defined by the government. The LNP do sound Democratic don’t they? In a very Israeli way.

The logic of a racial contract that overtly and unapologetically relegates colonised Indigenous peoples to “a position defined by violence, exploitation, poverty, and denial of … full humanity” is precisely that which we see being exercised in that act of collective punishment in which Alaa and her children were killed. Thousands more in Gaza, children and adults, have been killed in the last few weeks, even as the West ritually reiterates its support for the democratic state of Israel. But what price democracy in a state premised on the unequal humanity of Indigene and settler?

Source: The racial contract of settler colonialism  – Pearls and Irritations

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Scott Morrison’s Hillsong mates ripped off $millions in Aboriginal grants and tenders. Why is no one talking about that?Kangaroo Court of Australia

Scott Morrison and Brian Houston

How Colonial Churches have always operated for their own good

In 2005 allegations were made that Leigh Armstrong and Hillsong Church tried a swifty to rip off the Riverstone Aboriginal Community Association but when caught out they tried to bribe them to keep quiet. The SMH reported:

Source: Scott Morrison’s Hillsong mates ripped off $millions in Aboriginal grants and tenders. Why is no one talking about that?Kangaroo Court of Australia

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Property, Race, Colonialism, and Capitalism

Labor to lay out key elements of its Indigenous Voice by Christmas | The Australian

An Indigenous fact that speaks to Power : “I wasn’t born in Australia. Australia was born on our land!”

The colonial state treated indigenous populations as either less than human or as incapable of owning property privately.

The idea that indigenous peoples do not cultivate their land — going back to that Lockean fantasy that America existed as this uncultivated wild — is a racial trope

Interview

https://play.acast.com/s/jacobin-radio/dig-colonial-lives-of-property-w-brenna-bhandar

Transcript

Source: Property, Race, Colonialism, and Capitalism

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Conservatives fight desperate, losing battle against decolonisation of Australia – Pearls and Irritations

Sunrise in Australia; a dramatic contrast of red and black behind the gold disc of the sun; the image is reminiscent of the iconic Australian Aboriginal flag.

Conservatives rail against references to “invasion day”. Ultimately, however, these are the despairing sighs of an old, dying Australia which no longer exists and isn’t coming back.

Source: Conservatives fight desperate, losing battle against decolonisation of Australia – Pearls and Irritations

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British Genocide in Kenya: the Case for Reparations – CounterPunch.org

Uncovering the brutal truth about the British empire | Mau Mau | The Guardian

Aftermath of British Colonialism not taught. The Germans had a far far better record.

In 2022, Kenya is back in the news for seeking justice for another brutal British act. With nearly 56 million, Kenya is a dynamic East African country. It now has a literacy rate of 78% but its per capita income is barely $1,879, ranking lowly 144 in the world. Many argue that many of Kenya’s current problems are a legacy of British colonialism.

Source: British Genocide in Kenya: the Case for Reparations – CounterPunch.org

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Queen Elizabeth Is Dead, But Her Bloody Legacy Lives on

In this undated image released on March 6, 2021, Queen Elizabeth II walks past Commonwealth flags in St George's Hall at Windsor Castle, to mark Commonwealth Day, in Windsor, England.

Elizabeth took pains to shield the monarchy from politics, but its bloody, racist legacy can’t be erased.

 For millions of people who lived through and still suffer the consequences of the Royal Family’s brutal colonialism and racism both abroad and in the U.K., the Queen’s legacy will live on in the form of the violent and lasting rule that the Royal Family has overseen and still profits from.

Source: Queen Elizabeth Is Dead, But Her Bloody Legacy Lives on

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Invasion Day – » The Australian Independent Media Network

by the way, Conservative USA, we’d rather you consider increasing the perceived value of every human life in your country and dragging your political system out of the gutter created by your immediate past President than worrying about us ‘Down Under’. There is no need to send the Pacific Fleet and thousands of troops to invade Australia. We’re fine – really!

Source: Invasion Day – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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“The Final Solution” Who Used The Term First – The Nazi Party or The Canadian Government? – Collective Evolution

Conservatives in Australia refuse to even address issues of this nature in Australia. Why was a population of 700k reduced to half in less than 200 years? Instead crying that any attempt to investigate these matters is necessary to do so is regaled as a form of “Black Racism”,  an effort to “Cancel and tarnish White Culture”, and some form of “Race Replacement”. Andrew Bolt, who is obsessed with matters of race rales against any critical assessment let alone discussed in our classrooms. British Colonialism arrived on these shores with a mindset well and truly established and practiced in other settler colonies and it certainly wasn’t one with human rights in mind.

“The Final Solution” is a term coined by the Nazi party, describing their plan for the genocide and murder of Jews during the second World War. It represented a policy of deliberate and systematic genocide which culminated in the Holocaust. The type of genocidal actions witnessed during World War 2, and in many other parts of the world, is something that also occurred in North America prior to the Second World War. Some Scholars have estimated that prior to the ‘discovery’ of the Americas by Europeans, the pre-contact era population could have been as high as 100 million people. We are taught in high school that the mass disappearance and depopulation of the indigenous was due to disease brought over by the Europeans, but recent history involving the Canadian residential school system may be a catalyst for many to question this narrative. There were most certainly other factors.

Source: “The Final Solution” Who Used The Term First – The Nazi Party or The Canadian Government? – Collective Evolution

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The politics of the necktie — ‘colonial noose’, masculine marker or silk status symbol?

Neckties made global news last week when Maori MP, Rawiri Waititi, was ejected from the debating chamber of New Zealand Parliament. He refused to wear a tie, evocatively describing it as a “colonial noose”.

The politics of the necktie — ‘colonial noose’, masculine marker or silk status symbol?
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The legacy of colonisation – » The Australian Independent Media Network

So my knowledge of history is sketchy and very personalised, so I am open to being shot down in flames in the conclusions I might draw.

As a dual British/Australian citizen, I confess to being proud of neither country for the legacy of the colonisation and settlement which is attached to their gunship methods.

In the case of the colonising of both America and Australia, but perhaps more so in the case of America, the invading forces relied on their military to keep the peace. A consequence of this has been a much more militaristic approach being adopted by the later law and order forces established in those countries.

People are often amazed to hear that in the UK, the police do not normally carry guns.

via The legacy of colonisation – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Indian Country Remembers the Trauma of Children Taken from Their Parents

“The act of ripping children away from their parents is nothing new for the United States. Separating children and their families to ‘kill the Indian to save the man’ by sending Native children to boarding schools, and doing it in the name of religion, is one generation removed from my family,” wrote Peggy Flanagan on Twitter. Flanagan, White Earth, is a candidate for lieutenant governor in Minnesota. “Trump’s ‘zero tolerance policy’ is nothing more than a clear violation of human rights. We must learn from history. We must stand with immigrants and refugees.”

via Indian Country Remembers the Trauma of Children Taken from Their Parents

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Life, death and politics in Hawaii: 125 years of colonial rule

 

The effects of a political overthrow that happened 125 years ago in Hawaii could not have been felt more vividly this month. The fear and distress that cast a shadow over the Hawaiian islands on Saturday morning during a false missile alert is part of the legacy of American occupation.

Parallels of Colonial takeover of Hawaii apply to Indigenous Australian takeover.

Life, death and politics in Hawaii: 125 years of colonial rule

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How Colonialism, Inequality turbocharge Caribbean Hurricanes | Informed Comment

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The Caribbean’s own Frantz Fanon (1925-1961), from the island of Martinique, recognized these complexities in his book, “The Wretched of the Earth.”Fanon asserted that democracy and the political education of the masses, across all post-colonial geographies, is a “historical necessity.” Presciently, he also noted that “the soil needs researching, as well as the subsoil, the rivers, and why not the sun.”

Source: How Colonialism, Inequality turbocharge Caribbean Hurricanes | Informed Comment