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On October 31, the red “Breaking News” banner announced that Israeli warplanes had bombed a residential block in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. Telegram channels then delivered more devastating news, revealing that the airstrike had targeted the al-Sanida neighborhood in Jabalia, where I grew up my entire life. As I watched Al Jazeera, staring […]
Posts Tagged ‘colonial’
The Gaza genocide is just an instrument in Israel’s larger colonial project
February 11th, 2024 
Awake Goy The struggle against settler colonial affinities
October 18th, 2023 Awake Goy The affinity between the West and Israel is due in part to an affinity with white settler life. Our task, in face of the ongoing Israeli onslaught in Gaza and the ongoing white settler attachment to it, is to struggle against this social order. Source Views: 0
The humanitarian paradigm complements Israel’s settler-colonial violence
September 21st, 2023 Awake Goy A late commemoration of World Humanitarian Day in Gaza marked not only that the international community considers Palestinians as an afterthought, but also how far removed diplomats are from the politics that created the perpetual humanitarian crisis in the enclave. Diplomats from Chile, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Norway, the UK and Australia went to the Gaza […]
Posted in Middle East, norway 
Tags: colonial, complements, humanitarian, israel, paradigm, settler, Violence 
No Comments »German Museum Denies White People Entry To Colonial Exhibit On Saturdays, Only BIPoC Allowed Inside
September 3rd, 2023 Awake Goy By John Cody via ReMix News A German museum of industrial heritage in Dortmund only allows “Black, Indigenous Source Views: 0
Finding my hidden history in Israel’s colonial-settler past and present
August 21st, 2023 Awake Goy Jason Sherman’s film “My Tree” follows his attempt to find the Jewish National Fund tree his parents planted for him in Israel and in process learning the role it played in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Source Views: 0
Posted in Jewish News Tags: colonial, finding, hidden, history, israel, present, settler No Comments »The Philippines still cannot get off the colonial needle
July 13th, 2023 Awake Goy Despite gaining independence in 1946, the Philippines is still under US political and security control, remaining a US bridgehead in the southern part of the Asia-Pacific region. The sustained military presence of Washington was a requirement for the island country’s freedom. Under the Treaty on Military Bases, the Philippine government relinquished control of 23 military […]
Israel’s colonial grip on Palestinian identity
June 28th, 2023 Awake Goy The Israeli colonial mindset fantasizes about erasing Palestinian identity and history, but Israel has utterly failed to destroy Palestinians’ belonging to their land. Source Views: 0
The annual Flag March is a sign of Israeli weakness and colonial insecurity
May 20th, 2023 Awake Goy Radical Israeli settlers and rightwing groups took part in the provocative “Flag March” on Thursday, May 18. Organized annually since 1968 to celebrate the occupation of East Jerusalem — under the name of “Jerusalem Unification Day” — the march usually starts in West Jerusalem with tens of thousands of Israelis carrying the flags of their […]
How Israel’s protests are preserving colonial privilege
April 19th, 2023 Awake Goy Lowkey invited me onto his podcast The Watchdog once again this week. We discussed the recent protest movement in Israel and why it is not truly a movement for democracy but rather — as leading Palestinian intellectual Joseph Massad puts it — a movement for “master-race democracy.” We talked about why the anti-Netanyahu demos have […]
Neo-colonial designs on Malaysia
September 22nd, 2022 Awake Goy European legal and financial instruments and institutions should not be manipulated to violate the sovereignty of Malaysia from behind the fig leaf of a spurious claim to Malaysian territory by the so-called Sultan of Sulu, Sultan Jamalul Kiram II. While the claim is lacking in historical, legal and political veracity, as well as being thoroughly […]
Elizabeth II: Britain’s last colonial queen
September 17th, 2022 Awake Goy When Queen Elizabeth II took to the throne in February 1952, the British Empire had entered its last days. Though Britain maintained control over vast swathes of the planet and counted hundreds of millions of people as subjects, the beginning of the “Second Elizabethan Era” was marked by unrest and revolt in Africa and the […]
Elizabeth II: Britain’s last colonial queen
September 17th, 2022 Awake Goy When Queen Elizabeth II took to the throne in February 1952, the British Empire had entered its last days. Though Britain maintained control over vast swathes of the planet and counted hundreds of millions of people as subjects, the beginning of the “Second Elizabethan Era” was marked by unrest and revolt in Africa and the […]
Mansour Abbas lends support to Israel’s colonial narrative
August 15th, 2022 Awake Goy Ra'am party leader Mansour Abbas has exposed how exploitative his role is within the coalition government formed by former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. His political party, he claims, has "no influence" when it comes to Israel's security concerns. "We have no influence on military operations. We are in the Knesset to work for Arab […]
Posted in Middle East Tags: abbas, colonial, israel, lends, mansour, narrative, support No Comments »Cross-Cultural Living and Dying in Colonial Campeche, But No Sex
July 14th, 2022 Awake Goy 2022 is shaping up to be a big year for colonial era discoveries in Central and South America. Read more Section: News History & Archaeology Ancient Places Americas Read Later Source Views: 0
Pre-Colonial Elite Tomb Discovered Under Working-Class Home in Lima
June 25th, 2022 Awake Goy In May 2022 I wrote an Ancient Origins news article about the discovery of “42, syphilis-ridden, colonial Spaniards.” Read more Section: News History & Archaeology Ancient Places Americas Read Later Views: 0
Israel’s colonial violence must be named as the cause of Palestinian suffering
June 22nd, 2022 Awake Goy The two-state compromise facilitates the international community's alienation from the repercussions faced by Palestinians as a result of Israel's ongoing settler-colonialism and violence. Imagining Palestine through the imposed (and moribund) two-state framework creates desensitisation from the suffering of the Palestinian people, which is almost never brought into the spotlight when diplomats speak about Israeli aggression […]
Posted in Middle East Tags: cause, colonial, israel, named, palestinian, suffering, Violence No Comments »Shireen Abu Akleh’s death exposes colonial solidarity
June 1st, 2022 Awake Goy The scandalous reactions in Germany and the United States to the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh exemplifies colonial solidarity. Views: 0
Why the US culture of colonial extraction is making people sick and destroying the planet
April 3rd, 2022 Awake Goy This article was produced by Local Peace Economy, a project of the Independent Media Institute. April M. Short is an editor, journalist and documentary editor and producer. She is a writing fellow at Local Peace Economy, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Previously, she served as a managing editor at AlterNet as well as […]
Posted in Health Tags: colonial, Culture, destroying, extraction, making, people, planet No Comments »Dutch king to stop using royal carriage over colonial criticism
January 14th, 2022 Awake Goy King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands has said he will no longer use the royal gold carriage amid a debate over slavery links. One side of the family’s “Golden Carriage” bears a painting that critics say glorifies the Netherlands’ colonial past. The Netherlands has been reckoning with its history as a 17th-century colonial superpower, where Dutch […]
Washington’s Neo-Colonial Policy in Syria
November 23rd, 2021 Awake Goy The use of armies and mercenaries to support colonial commercial projects has become the standard of US behavior. And this is particularly evident due to the actions of Washington in Syria. The US, supported by its army and its many thousands of private military companies (PMCs), continues to loot the country, its energy resources, artifacts, […]
