The settler colonialism paradigm, when applied to Israel, becomes absurd indeed. Jews are Indigenous to the land of Israel, with a continuous presence spanning over three millennia. That is a far cry from the experience of other so-called settler colonial states, which involved strangers laying claim to foreign territories. Rather than being driven by a metropole or mother country, the return of Russian and East European Jews to their ancestral land in the nineteenth century was largely in response to the persecution and antisemitism experienced in those nations.

What disturbed us more than the evil of Hamas, was the reaction of the western world - the propensity to look away, to turn a blind eye, to make excuses, to justify these atrocities…

One of the many shocking factors of the past year is the reality inversion imbibed by so many when considering the conflict. Within days of the greatest massacre of Jews in a single day since the Holocaust, Israelis were being blamed for their own deaths. Even the sexual violence perpetrated against women and men was justified as “resistance”. 

The UN has shown a determination to sever all Jewish association with Jerusalem. This constitutes a denial of history, an infraction against self-determination under international law, and a violation of indigenous rights in ancestral lands.

One of the more obvious examples of the disconnect between rhetoric and reality is in the area of language loss, a matter of deep concern to Indigenous cultures worldwide.

If you happen to be brown but don’t buy into the ideology, behold, you are actually white. The fact that the majority of Israelis are brown is irrelevant. They are still white, according to the dogma. One’s skin colour grants political advantage, but as it turns out, only for those on the Left who are not Jewish.