Everyone should be enraged that the #racist #antiindigenous #settlercolonial #enbridge #pipeline company that has committed so many crimes against Native peoples and land is being #greenwashed by #neoliberalfascism

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-navy-spent-billions-littoral-combat-ship

#100Billion: one of the worst #boondoggles in the #military’s long #history of buying overpriced and underperforming weapons systems.

#DefundthePentagon #CorporateTheocracy #settlercolonial #MauiWildfire #GreenNewDeal
#PentagonIsTheLargestEmitter

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-navy-spent-billions-littoral-combat-ship

#100Billion: one of the worst #boondoggles in the #military’s long #history of buying overpriced and underperforming weapons systems.

#DefundthePentagon #CorporateTheocracy #settlercolonial #MauiWildfire #GreenNewDeal
#PentagonIsTheLargestEmitter

If there is any lingering doubt in your mind that the state of #Israel is a #Racist, #SettlerColonial, #JewishSupremacist & #Apartheid entity, please have a read of Tony #Greenstein’s latest blog post:

“WHAT IS #ZIONISM? Is it a National Liberation Movement or an Ideology & Movement of Jewish Supremacism & Settler Colonialism?”

In it he writes:

“The Israeli Labor Party (ILP) has always declared that it wishes to see a separation between the #Palestinians and Jews which was its reason for supporting a Palestinian ‘state’ (in reality a #Bantustan) in the West Bank. It did not want a Palestinian majority in a ‘Jewish’ state. Apartheid [in South Africa] too was defined by its authors as ‘separate development.’

When #Netanyahu, #Wasserlauf and #BenGvir talk about #Zionist values they are talking about the values of the Labor Zionist movement and successive ILP governments. They are the values of ethnic cleansing, land confiscation, discriminatory treatment, wars of expansion and colonisation. It used to be called Jewish Labour, Land and Produce. What the ILP started Ben-Gvir is finishing.”

https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2023/08/what-is-zionism-is-it-national.html?m=1

@jenicewild I’m sure many #Israelis, both religious & secular, will have concerns about their futures in a unitary state!

I grew up in what was the #Apartheid state called #Rhodesia. I left as a teenager in 1971 just before the civil war started in earnest. The whites were fighting to maintain white-minority rule in large part because they were terrified by the prospect of being governed by the very same black people that they had been discriminating against & humiliating for almost a century! As it turned out, even though Robert Mugabe turned out to be a totally corrupt dictator, there was no mass slaughter of the small white population after the country became an independent Zimbabwe at the end of the 1970-1980 civil war!

The white minority-ruled #Apartheid government of South Africa was able to sustain itself for much longer by directing a fear-mongering campaign at whites which basically said that, if the black majority came to power, they would all be slaughtered! Many predicted a blood-bath when Apartheid ended & Mandela became President but, as we now know, through his amazing charisma & leadership he was able to prevent that from happening!

My point is: I ‘get’ that Israelis share all kinds of fears & anxieties! I also understand that there are complicated religious & (geo)political issues that would need to be resolved! But the #Genocidal policies being visited on the indigenous #Palestinian population by the increasingly #Fascist Netanyahu government will only prolong the country’s agony! Eventually, the #Zionist #SettlerColonial hegemony will come to an end.

PS: you mention Sharia. Let me ask you a question: in what material respects does strict Islamic Law in any way differ from the strict rabbinical law that the #UltraOrthodox #NeoNazi politicians like Bezalel #Smotritch & Itamar Ben Gvir (& others) want to impose on the largely secular Israeli population?

Full disclosure: I don’t know the answer but I can probably guarantee that there isn’t much difference - especially where eg womens’ rights are concerned

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2022/10/pentagon-climate-change-neta-crawford-book/

The necessity of, for example, getting #bases in #Hawaii to be sure to have #coal deposits that one can put into #ships, precedes or parallels the US’s interest in having bases #overseas for #oil.

#TragedyOfEnclosure #LandTheft #climatechanges #SubsistenceLandscapes #CorporateTheocracy #settlercolonial #monocrops #MauiWildfire #PentagonIsTheLargestEmitter

https://youtube.com/watch?v=HIDRDHoB2Qs&feature=share

#TragedyOfEnclosure: Land changes because of a #Genocidal indifference to #NativeLandscapes cause invasive grasses that replaced #settlercolonial #BigAgro to fuel the #MauiWildfire

The legal battle, one of the tribe’s largest expenses in recent years, resulted in May 2022 with the court awarding less than a third of the water sought by the Hopi Tribe. That was the amount needed, the court said, “to provide a permanent homeland.”

“I would define it as modern-day #genocide,” Nuvangyaoma said. “Withholding #water, which is #life for the #Hopis, until an undetermined time is really a position to kill off a #tribe that’s been here since #time immemorial.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/arizona-water-ruling-hopi-tribe-limits-future

#SettlerColonial #water #settlements #economic #development

#Wildfires have affected over 12 #FirstNations and at least three Mйtis communities… Sparked by worsening #climatechange conditions, threatening #Indigenous #nations, which preserve over 80% of the planet’s #biodiversity. #SettlerColonial regimes are worsening the #climatecrisis by imposing pipelines, fracking and strip-mining projects that devastate Indigenous #lands and poison #water supplies.

https://iacenter.org/2023/05/27/wildfires-threaten-indigenous-first-nations-lands/

Sean Carleton is an assistant #professor of #history & #IndigenousStudies at the #UniversityOfManitoba . Lessons in Legitimacy argues that #schooling played a #CentralRole in the making of #SettlerColonial #capitalism in #BritishColumbia . The #book encourages us to #ThinkCritically about the #connections between #colonialism , #education & #exploitation at the heart of capitalism.

https://www.readthemaple.com/colonialism-capitalism-and-state-schooling-in-b-c

#DecolonizeYourMind #RecommendedReading #Decolonial #education #KnowledgeIsPower

#Australia has never been good at listening to #Aboriginal & #TorresStrait Islander people. Despite #truths #exposed in processes like the #RoyalCommission into #AboriginalDeathsInCustody or #Inquiry into the #Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander #Children from their Families, time & again #governments have #ignored #recommendations designed to address the #impacts of Australia’s #SettlerColonial past & present.

https://theconversation.com/amp/first-nations-people-have-made-a-plea-for-truth-telling-by-reckoning-with-its-past-australia-can-finally-help-improve-our-future-202137

#Indigenous #HumanRights #NativeRights

In light of the brutal, #Nazi-style assault by #IOF on #Jenin, & the ongoing #Israeli state’s #SettlerColonial pogrom vs #Palestinians generally, I fully agree with this ⤵️ comparison by @StanleyCohenLaw@Twitter.com:

“Am I saying that #Zionism is to #Judaism what #ISIS is to #Islam. Yes.”