The Nakba at 75: The job of Israeli settler colonialism is never done

To justify their need to steal Palestinian lands and kill Palestinians who resist their colonial theft, the Zionists have adopted traditional European settler-colonial arguments Settler-colonisation is hard work. Stealing the land of natives requires ceaseless effort and stratagems, not to mention the sadistic pleasure the colonists experience when suppressing indigenous resistance with maximum violence. Since their inception, the Zionist movement and the state of Israel have committed themselves to this long-term strategy, which they continue to follow with fanatical determination. In that, Israel is hardly exceptional in the annals of white settler-colonies but is rather exemplary. Coinciding with the Jewish settler-colony’s 75th anniversary, Jewish colonists were busy last week establishing their newest colony on stolen Palestinian lands near the Palestinian village of Mukhmas on the outskirts of colonised East Jerusalem. Israeli authorities were meanwhile demolishing a…