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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
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 […]
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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
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
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
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
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
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.
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, […]
XXI Century: The Abolition of Israeli Expansionist Colonial Anachronism
November 16th, 2021 Awake Goy 13 Nov 2021 Source: Al Mayadeen Net Susana Khalil There will be no free and peaceful Arab-Persian world as long as the Israeli colonial Euro-Zionist regime exists. I. By way of dialogue 1907 ABDALLAH: Mustafa, British colonialism prepared a scientific report (Bannerman), in order to prolong itself as an empire. The report says […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: abolition, anachronism, century, colonial, expansionist, israeli No Comments »Charleston Charm: Colonial Revival Showplace ‘C. Bissell Jenkins House’ for Sale
November 13th, 2021 Awake Goy With views of the Low Battery and the Ashley River, this mansion exudes immaculate Southern elegance One of Charleston peninsula’s grandest properties, the C. Bissell Jenkins House on Murray Boulevard, is available for purchase. Built in 1913, the house was the first home located along the new thoroughfare near the Ashley River. Designed by Walker […]
Posted in real estate Tags: bissell, Charleston, charm, colonial, jenkins, revival, showplace No Comments »Criticism of France’s Neo-colonial Policies in Africa is on the Rise
October 13th, 2021 Awake Goy The Africa-France Summit was held in Montpellier, France, on October 8, and for the first time since 1973 no African heads of state themselves were invited to the summit. Instead, Paris’s current relations with African states were discussed with businessmen, artists, and social activists. As a result, the summit organizers did not manage to circumvent […]
Latest hasbara target: Israel as a settler-colonial state
July 22nd, 2021 Awake Goy A recent debate over the usefulness of the term “settler colonialism” in the English version of Haaretz shows how American universities and media are constant targets for Israeli hasbara. It started with Steven Lubet and Jonathan Zasloff’s deeply flawed article from July 5 titled “Is Israel really a Settler Colonial State?” where they go to […]
Portrait Of Queen Elizabeth Removed From Oxford Due To ‘Colonial History’
June 10th, 2021 Awake Goy Graduate students at the University of Oxford have removed a portrait of Queen Elizabeth from their common area because of its ties to “colonial history,” prompting cries of “cancel culture” and headlines around the world. Members of the Magdalen College Middle Common Room, or MCR, decided to take down the portrait during a committee meeting on […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: colonial, Elizabeth, history, oxford, portrait, Queen, removed No Comments »US recovers most of Colonial Pipeline bitcoin ransom
June 8th, 2021 Awake Goy The chief executive of the massive fuel pipeline hit by ransomware last month is expected to detail his company’s response to the cyberattack and to explain his decision to authorise a multimillion-dollar payment when he testifies before Congress this week. Colonial Pipeline CEO Joseph Blount will face the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday, one […]
Israel’s Colonial Savagery
May 26th, 2021 Awake Goy The Al Jalaa Tower housing Al Jazeera and The Associated Press offices collapses after being hit by Israeli missile in Gaza City [Mohammed Salem/Reuters] On May 24, 2021, Israel’s security apparatus launched a wave of mass arrests against the country’s Palestinian citizens as part of a violent attack on the anti-Zionist resistance movement. These arrests […]
Washington DC Running out of Gas, Even as Colonial Pipeline Recovers
May 15th, 2021 Awake Goy WASHINGTON—Washington, D.C., was running out of gasoline on Friday, even as the country’s largest fuel pipeline network ramped up deliveries following a cyberattack and officials assured motorists that supplies would return to normal soon. The six-day Colonial Pipeline shutdown was the most disruptive cyberattack on record. Widespread panic buying continued two days after the pipeline […]
Colonial Pipeline paid $5m ransom to hacking group DarkSide after huge attack, report says
May 14th, 2021 Awake Goy Colonial Pipeline paid nearly $5 million to ransomware group DarkSide following a cyberattack that forced the company to shut down its pipeline for six days, Bloomberg reports. Initial reports indicated that the Georgia-based company had no intentions to pay the extortion fee while it attempted to restore full service to its operating system. But multiple […]
From Palestine To Colombia: The End Of The White World Colonial/Capitalist Project?
May 14th, 2021 Awake Goy Despite the quickening decline of the “West,” the US and its junior partners in imperialism are determined to hold humanity hostage to terminal capitalist greed and violence. “Biden labels himself an ‘Atlanticist’ — shorthand for a white supremacist.” The world is shocked by the image of an eleven-story residential building in Gaza collapsing from a […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: capitalist, Colombia, colonial, Palestine, project, white, world No Comments »
