Hen Mazzig
If a group of people: ✅ takes over lands where their culture didn’t form ✅ take resources to a central region from the new areas ✅ oppresses the local population ✅ forcibly assimilates local cultures into the dominant one Congratulations - that is colonialism. If you refuse to apply this definition, when it fits, because the people are a certain ethnicity—that is a you problem. Specifically, a racism problem. Sorry to destroy your noble savage delusions.
Alonso Gurmendi
Many accounts have began to erase Palestinian history these past few days. One common take is the equation of Arabization with modern settler colonialism, as if Palestinians were the result of waves of population transfer from the Hejaz, replacing local communities. This is not