The Curious Rise of 'Settler Colonialism' and 'Turtle Island' My essay for @TheAtlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
@powellAtlantic @TheAtlantic Funny, if it weren’t for colonialism, none of us would be here 😂 Judging by how things turned out, It would probably have been better
@powellAtlantic @TheAtlantic idk if you saw but you’re getting absolutely cooked for this stupid ass article
You could have done a little more to look at the working UN definition of Indigenous and the work of Jose Martinez Cobo. Apart from the insane "gotcha" that to be indigenous a population must be "non dominant", even a Jew who converted last week is "more indigenous" than any Arab Muslim. Judaism itself is indigenous to Israel. And of course indigenous status is not zero sum. There can be overlapping indigenous claims to any area.
@powellAtlantic @TheAtlantic Any comment on the upcoming project commemorating your attacks on #MMIW ? Survivors are coming forward.
@powellAtlantic @TheAtlantic Any comment on the upcoming project commemorating your attacks on #MMIW ? Survivors are coming forward.
@powellAtlantic @TheAtlantic Not surprising coming from someone who works under an editor who was a a prison guard in Israel and admitted to beating Palestinians so much his hands were covered with blood. On the wrong side of history, character and courage Michael.
Michael I really found this article unhelpful as you included so little information about Israel’s founding and how incorrect the settler colonial paradigm is when applied to Israel. Jews are not “settler colonialists” in the land of Israel, our ancient homeland, where we’ve had continuous presence for upwards of 3500 years. Jews in diaspora maintained our sacred connection to the land of Israel; our indigenous culture; our lineage to ancient Israelites through endogamous marriage practices. Arabs are indigenous to the Hijaz, not the Levant. The Palestinian cause was rooted at the outset in Pan-Arab imperial hegemony, and in Nazism. Your article could have provided this context
@powellAtlantic @TheAtlantic This piece shows zero understanding of settler colonialism nor Turtle Island nor the actual interlinkages of Indigenous struggles globally. Anyone who studies either can spare themselves about 40 eye rolls by not opening and reading this.
@powellAtlantic @TheAtlantic Maxime Rodinson, “Israël, fait colonial?”, spécial issue of Jean Paul Sartre’s Les Temps Modernes, published in … 1967
@powellAtlantic @TheAtlantic And the responses here filled with the mix of ad hominem and anti-Semitic attacks now typical of left twitter.