Israel’s settler colonialism and the genocide in Gaza

Abstract

This paper traces the continuity of Israel’s settler colonial policies and practices of massacre and genocide, beginning with the 1948 Nakba, continuing up to today’s Genocidal war on the Gaza Strip. It argues that genocide is a fundamental feature of the structure of settler colonialism. It is a process and not an event. Since 1947, Israel’s settler colonialism has been accompanied by unrelenting military, juridical, geographical, economic, ideological, psychological, and cultural violence against Indigenous Palestinians.