#settler colonialism really is just!

[gael-garcia]

Lakota Nation vs. United States (2022, Jesse Short Bull & Laura Tomaselli)

#lakota nation vs. united states #settler colonialism really is just! #how familiar yknow. #documentary #jesse short bull #laura tomaselli #screencaps #settler colonialism #murrikkka #post #women directors

[crabussy]

god I'm so fucking furious at the removal of Te Reo Māori names from organisations around Aotearoa. it's a complete non-issue, every organisation has the English name directly underneath the Māori name. I have never once as an English speaker been unable to understand what an organisation is for. Winston Peters, the Deputy Prime Minister, who is literally Māori himself, said “Te Papa is a historic name but tell me this waka kotahi, how many boats have you seen going down the road?”. Waka does not just mean canoe. it means vessel, and waka kotahi (the transport agency of Aotearoa) explains this VERY SIMPLY on their official website. waka kotahi means to travel together as one. Can you see how fucking upsetting this is. A Māori person in power who is in agreement about banning his own language, being so cocky about something that he does not even understand due to the suppression of the language of his people. It makes me sick. I've seen reports from Māori people all over Aotearoa speaking out about how upset and furious they are, how decades of progress have been undone in the fight to restore the rights of their people who have for so long been oppressed and have suffered the effects of colonisation. Please share this if you can, I hate knowing how few people will hear about this, I know there is so much injustice in the world right now and it is so exhausting, I know. I love you all, keep it up.

https://waateanews.com/2023/11/27/te-reo-public-service/

#godd. I feel sick to my stomach #ask to tag #not tagging with relevant tags because I just know there are people out there who would tear me apart for this #just. share as much as you can. thank you #white prime minister after white prime minister after white prime minister #jacinda was fantastic and I appreciate her so much but godd #our government is so fucking full of pakeha officials and it really really shows #indigenous rights #colonialism #settler colonialism

[captainjonnitkessler]

"Remember it's okay to criticize Israel as long as you're not antisemitic about it" Yeah thanks, tumblr user with a tag labeled "antizionism is antisemitism", you seem like an unbiased source of what is and isn't acceptable criticism. Do you - oh, you already posted that it's not Israel's fault that Hamas is hiding weapons in civilian locations, cool, that's cool -

#i am just. so sick of zionists right now #it's weird that i'm pretty sure some of these same people were posting about American landback movements #and how they're not complicated and not violent and how your personal comfort shouldn't figure in #to restoring the rights of the people whose land you took #but now all of a sudden settler colonialism is a really complicated problem actually; there's so much to consider; really who knows #and like. they're not wrong! it IS a complicated problem without a good solution! #it's just that it's weird that it WASN'T complicated when we were talking about a country with no active resistance #and therefore no need to ACTUALLY abide by your own self-proclaimed ideals

[intertexts]

etched map of then-syria and palestine, printed + published in 1807. don't know enough about west asian and levantine history to comment on its accuracy or changes, but it's a plate from the memoirs of jean de joinville's vie de saint louis ix, trans. thomas johnes, & was most likely commissioned or loaned from longman & co publishing. the memoirs were originally written around the mid-13th century, so it's unclear to me which century it was current to. <3

#i do not. talk about the current palestinian genocide here often because this is effectively my stupid little online diary where i post #gay shit to a tiny audience who is also certainly given the demographic as well informed & such as i am. .& i don't consider that type of #online activism to be often useful given yknow. my reach & audience etc. anyway this made me feel such intense emotion.... was just. #leafing through this text i picked up for nothing at a thrift store a while ago & ran into it. can't really articulate my thoughts well but #it is there!! look at it!!! older than the settler-colonial state!!! those cities have existed for so long and they always will & their #presence & dignity has lasted and will last & be preserved even in the most forgotten and unexpected of places. #which is something that i think should be kept in mind. #txt

[ialwaysknewyouwerepunk]

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#finished the ballad of songbirds and snakes last night and im still kinda forming an opinion on it #really interesting to be in the brain of someone who is such a bad person #who barely knows what remorse feels like #someone who forms their emotions and behavior based on what he thinks the other expects #someone who doesn't see depth in people or situations #and all of that was shown really well by how we barely get to know lucy gray #but now i'm like........ SO WHAT ABOUT LUCY GRAY #her and sejanus's stories are so fascinating and i want to know more so bad #and this story was just.............. like #most of it was empty blabber about snow and his incredibly stupid life and empty thoughts #oh right aside from all the crimes and killing and fascism #i have determined that that's the point #but that doesn't mean i'm satisfied lmao #it was eerie tho to be in snow's head especially in these times #where people in the settler colony of israel are completely behind their genocidal regime #// the capitol and its citizens and how they see the people in the districts #gonna watch the movie now to see....... if it suddenly shows me something completely different bc #i don't know how you can transfer the vibe of a book like that into a movie #since it's so in snow's head? and his inner monologue is the most important aspect of how the book's angle is built? #so... we'll see #books

[somanywips]

Do you ever just sit there and think how colonialism still affects us so deeply in a way that we can't reverse because it's so ingrained in us and in our history that we just keep circling around it and repeating it with just some modifications, and how the oppressed are always the same and the oppressor always does the same things with just slightly bigger terms to make it seem as if they're not really doing harm, but in reality just correcting the "wrong". Yeah.

#wips rambles! #colonialism #it's just #talking about it and learning more about hits so much harder when you're from a place that has been harvested to the fucking ground #not even by settlers #because all they did here was take and take and then throw away the rest to use later #I don't know #I always get really sad learning more about it

[beepmeepmeepbeep]

the eu is beyond fucking annoying

#making no fucking effort to do anything to help palestinians bc they care too much abt 'condemning hamas' #just talking about future plans after these direct attacks slow down #why cant you help palestinians now #and talking about 'a place for europe' being a key part of these plans. #. #why should palestinians get that when youre all clearly heavily biased towards israel and created this horrific settler colony to begin wit #'no place for hamas' which really means no kind of palestinian resistance #whether hamas linked or not - would be allowed to exist because the west deems any non state resistance as terrorism #literally as soon as anyone starts being like 'oh this is terrorism' i just stop listening it is the most useless word to ever exist #it means nothing and is only used to justify arresting and killing people #whove done such *awful* crimes as protest or protect their territory

[paopuofhearts]

it's almost like the only option is dividing things further black and white then just going hardcore to an extreme.

like.

i spent all day yesterday cutting off friends and blogs of people i love in my native community because of the excessive call for violence as the answer to decolonization, maintaining nuance but only for one side and saying fuck all to everything and everyone else.

but then today.

the number of jewish friends and blogs i've had to unfollow because people are doubling down on "hamas bombed a fucking hospital" when there's clear evidence that isn't true and it's propaganda to perpetuate cycles of violence?

fucking horrifying.

#like as someone from a native background and someone working to convert it's just #heartbreaking and frustrating to feel absolutely abandoned by both sides #simply because pointing out israel is built on a settler-colonial stance even if jewish people aren't settlers and colonizers #because they are indigenous to the area #gets me beat to the ground in native circles because it means i support netanyahu and gver and genocide #and i get the same fucking condescending look of 'you shouldnt talk' from liberal jewish groups that are all for saying zionism is a diseas #and yes they agree as jewish people that they are white and israel is white supremacist like #like i'm sorry the fucking whiplash of what the absolute fuck #but then pointing out that palestinians are being mass murdered and their response is clearly understandable #and israel is purposely using this shit to perpetuate genocide #all of a sudden i'm a fucking hypocrite to both sides #and my poor fucking husband is standing here like 'yes thats what you get for being clearly aware and wanting nonviolence' #how dare i not stand solely with israel #how dare i not demand only free palestine #people are just so fucking toxic and caught up in their own opinions being the only opinions and nuance being a fucking crime for condemnin #as if talking about this shit does anything! people are dying on both sides - one clearly more than the other - and what #you truly think attacking people that aren't specifically nodding along in blind support is really the thing that'll change the world #also saw a thing today that was like “being an ally means i will fight for you” like fuck that #but that's a different thing anyway #anyway i hate both my communities and feel absolutely isolated from them and wow #community just really isn't a thing unless you're ride or die without speaking up about anything huh

[elytrafemme]

posting about current politics on my instagram story was all fun and games when i had a few followers but it does in fact occur to me that posting contentious political takes has a small potential of backfiring on me when approximately 100 people will be viewing them

#nightmare.personal #in my fucking defense i'm seeing a lot of weirdly heartless shit on other people's stories okay #also it's my acct and if my classmates want to unfollow me i truly do not care #but if they don't unfollow me maybe we can all learn a few things about settler colonialism amen #also i haven't started editing cough syrup but. sigh. i really should. #THE OPENING OF THE CHAPTER SUCKS. IT JUST DOES. IDK.

[cruelsister-moved2]

I genuinely don't believe indigenous shld mean anything biological, its abt relationship to the land you're living on.

well hopefully no one is, in relation to human beings, intentionally using it to mean anything biological bc that would be very pre-1950s race science. but i think a lot of people (who are not indigenous) are still very uncritical about the romantic ideas they have about indigeneity & where they came from & what they imply. people seem to tolerate all kinds of ideas when cloaked in romanticism because theres a sense that it must be harmless, like most people would be unwilling to say that your personhood is defined by your genes or that people should all just go back to wherever their ancestors came from or that native white gentile europeans just Belong in europe more than anyone else does. but theyre very charmed by the idea that living in the same place your ancestors lived gives you some mystical relationship to the earth there and (especially for white colonisers in the US who crave a sense of identity) seek meaning in their genetic makeup or the lives of their great great grandparents on the basis that where they once lived conveys something meaningful to you (presumably in your genes), etc. but these ideas are still strongly implying the former things, just by people who dont really want to have to think about that because theyre enjoying a pastoral fantasy rather than intentionally trying to revive nazi ideology. and like for example, i get what youre trying to say and i 100% agree; but i think saying 'relationship to the land you're living on' is still potentially problematic to me, because like if an indigenous person is displaced from that land they have a relationship to, do they stop being indigenous? and whilst i think saying a relationship to the earth in general in preferable (e.g when african americans and native americans were displaced to new and unfamiliar lands, they retained the same non-exploitative relationship with the earth and developed new indigenous knowledge of this place they were new to), but when indigenous people's traditional ways of life are threatened by colonialism and poverty and cultural genocide etc they're still indigenous. if an indigenous person is forced to move into a city and get a 9-5 at starbucks, or the earth-honouring beliefs&spirituality of their ancestors are forcibly replaced with colonial xtianity and permanently lost to history, they're still indigenous. the way i've always seen it explained by indigenous people is as a relationship to colonialism & that is the one that's least romanticisable but creates the most coherent class of people: indigenous people are those whose right to live on the land they call home is threatened by a government which doesn't represent their community or respect the leadership it chooses for itself, whose language&religion&culture is being or has already been replaced by force, whose way of life is sanctioned or outright prohibited by a dominant culture that demands everyone live the same way, etc. if a group is experiencing these aspects of indigenous experience i see no reason to deny them resources and language on the basis that they dont have some kind of romantic noble savage mythology or something. lots of indigenous people are also dealing with huge loss & i think looking at a group whose language and traditions and way of life and so on HAVE been destroyed and then using a definition of indigenous that finishes the job and agrees they are no longer indigenous is very strange (this is not @ u though anon) & imo the fact of that loss IS a relationship to colonialism that makes one indigenous. never being able to learn the language your grandparents knew, specifically because it was taken from them against their will, is an indigenous experience regardless of what lifestyle or beliefs you as an individual practise.

i think we basically agree with eachother and im sure neither of us planned for my answer to be this long 😭 but i guess what im saying is that if u define indigeneity as a relationship to the land, but believe said relationship is inherited (and imagine vacuum from colonialism), is that not still in fact defining it biologically just without the discomfort of outright saying that

#ask #anon #i say romantic as in the ideological movement not like lovey dovey #btw #romanticism my NEMESIS i hate you #if any1s mad at what im saying go read hte wiki page for romantic nationalism and maybe youll calm down #sorry im really sleepy ik i always say this but. just hoping my gist is kind of clear without beign able ot get into every last nuance of i #the tweet i rbed earlier was so real argh #imo: #everyone 'was' 'originally' 'indigenous' #but settler colonialism + capitalism divided the world into coloniser and colonised #which transformed the coloniser as much as the colonised #so in a sense the act of colonising destroys your indigeneity rather than creating others' #so it almost makes no sense to define what that is #rather than like who is doing which and what should be done about it

[swamp-king1827]

Im ngl like…if some of y’all don’t think Jews are from Palestine/Israel/Caanan/Whatever. Where the hell do you think we came from…….

#eretz israel is like such a massive part of our ancient liturgy like. #do you think 1st and 5th and 10th and 15th century Jews were trying to start a settler colony in the land. like really? #or are we just a people in diaspora with a longing to go home. think with your head!!!!!!!

[8-bitdyke]

do you people know what a settler colony is

#yes stop putting nordic countries on a pedestal but cmon . dont just drop a hot word #we have so many problems but specifically settler colonialism is not really one of them ? #ix.txt/en

[fairuzfan]

What's new(ish) in the settler-colonial state of the US is that a series of bills have been passed in the House (the Baby Senate as I like to say) and are on their way to the Senate that make it harder to voice support for Palestinians while also making sure your direct taxes aid the genocide in Gaza.

These bills affirm the US's stance on the settler-colonial Zionist Entity and the implicit ties that the government has with Israel and really — just goes to show you how Israel is just one big base for American Imperialism.

Anyways, there's still time to call your senate and tell them that you don't want these bills that only further spiral the US into fascism so even if you think it might not do much — it's important that we document our dissent in official sources. And while you're at it — call your congressperson and tell them that if they voted for this you're not voting for them next election. If they voted against the bills, still call your congresspeople and tell them you support their decision to vote against these bills.

Here are the bills:

📍Resolution: HR 6126

Resolution Name: Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act Description: Gives $14.3 Billion To Israel From The IRS (Taxes You Pay). Like straight up. Just takes it from an IRS project, which used our tax dollars to begin with, to give to Israel "defense." Link to check summary: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/118/hr6126

📍Resolution: HR 798

Resolution Name: "Condemning the support of Hamas, Hezbollah, and other terrorist organizations at institutions of higher education, which may lead to the creation of a hostile environment for Jewish students, faculty, and staff." Description: Will Penalize Students On American College Campuses For Supporting Palestine. This includes "Free Palestine" Protests as according to Rep Owens who introduced the bill (Click). Link to check who voted: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/118-2023/h578

📍Resolution: HR 3266

Resolution Name: "Tolerance in Palestinian Education Act" Description: They will be examining Palestinian education materials to see if it promotes "hate" or "violence" (aka are they teaching their children to become murderers??). Will inevitably require Revision Of Text Books In Palestinian Schools To Portray The Occupation In A Positive Light. Link to summary: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/118/hr3266

📍Resolution: HR 340

Resolution Name: "The Hamas International Financing Prevent Action" Description: Claims to stop financial support for "terrorist" organizations but considering that Gaza's government is run by Hamas, then this would mean Gaza will receive absolutely no aid and donating to people in Gaza could get you in legal trouble. Link to summary: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/118/hr340

There's a button for most of these bills that allows you to contact your representative directly. Please do take the time to contact them — while many of this isn't especially new to Palestinians, the difference is now that we have a larger power in numbers than we did in the past. Please make sure to advocate for you Palestinian comrades in the US whenever possible! Help us Free Palestine one step at a time!

#palestine #us politics

[intersectionalpraxis]

The IOF lies. It's inherently part of their zionist settler-colonial agenda -literally. They are not to be trusted -everything they say is meant to distort and distract people from what is really going on. This is just another example of this.

#feminist #social justice #palestine #free palestine #free gaza #settler violence #settler colonialism #current events #israeli lies #israeli propaganda #israel is a war criminal #israel is a terrorist state #israel is committing genocide #gaza news #war on gaza #palestine news #news update #end the occupation #ceasefire now

[ellevandersneed]

finished reading thru The Hundred Years' War On Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance by Rashid Khalidi and I cannot recommend it enough. A lot of people and, very likely, the average person not completely blinded by Islamophobia and/or USamerican/European/British exceptionalism are probably at least moderately sympathetic to the Palestinian cause but I don't know how many of us actually understand the degrees by which Israel is based in settler colonial ideology, how it has continually attempted to subjugate and ultimately eradicate the Palestinian people, and the degree by which the US and Britain (but mostly the US ever since the Six Day War in 1967) have been complicit in this continual genocide.

This book is an amazing comprehensive guide on understanding the conflict and I genuinely think you should give it a read (or listen) if you want to learn more. It is one thing to feel sympathy and to declare support for a cause, but I think it is important to take a step further and educate yourself more on it. A ploy I have seen frequently by zionists is to tell people to "educate themselves" before commenting on this genocide, hoping to instill doubt and encourage silence. Well, here is your chance to educate yourself! I'm obviously biased in favor of this one as it is the first major text on the Palestinian genocide that I have read, but I fully believe in its quality.

You can find this book online in PDF format or, if you prefer, you can purchase a physical copy from many of the large retail bookstores; Barnes & Noble in the US sells it, and so does Waterstones in the UK. There is also an official audiobook that you can either purchase through many of the major audiobook distributors (though I recommend avoiding Amazon if it can be helped), but you can also obtain it via other means if necessary. It's actually currently up on YouTube in its entirety, though I won't link it here in case it gets taken down. (It's really easy to search for, just type in the books title + 'audiobook' into your preferred search engine or on YouTube itself and you'll find it. It's about 10 hours long which is a reasonable length for an audiobook). I'll include a link in this post to an overview/lecture/dialogue with the author Rashid Khalidi on the contents of the book conducted at Brown University in 2020.

I do ask you read this book. I think a lot of people already are. I checked a couple of online libraries that have a limited number of audiobook copies that had all been checked out and that to me implies that people do want to educate themselves. There's a sizeable stack of these books at the local bookstore I ocassionally shop at, front and center on the table in the history and world affairs section. It's not hard to find. I hope you all have a good day or evening and I know that if we all take the time to educate ourselves further and approach this genocide with a deeper understanding, we may be able to do something about it. Emotional pleas are not enough, they must be informed ones as well.

#palestine #rashid khalidi #end occupation #end israeli occupation #israel #books #the hundred years' war on palestine

[catsnuggler]

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#still unbelievable to me how Israelis have killed so many olive trees #on top of it being unbelievable to commit such heinous colonial violence against Palestinian people of course #but these trees... some of them are really fucking old #like back to Roman occupation old iirc #even those that aren't that old surely *descend* from trees originally planted by ancient Jews #to kill these trees... which aside from the other questions I addressed are productive #they are producing olives but the IDF and settlers kill them #but to kill these trees is to kill their own history #their own family #which. again. is secondary to how killing Palestinians means doing exactly that #I just don't get it #but then I can't believe that we nearly exterminated the American bison #so I guess I'm just a naive fool because these horrific acts of genocide and colonialism well horrify me