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“The British media for the most part suppressed, played down or castigated the ICJ's momentous decision. The lead item on that evening's BBC News at Ten dealt with the latest of innumerable legal setbacks suffered by US President Donald Trump. There was no mention at all of the ICJ ruling in The Times, often referred to as a paper of record, until page 42 (page 3 of the International Section). No report either in the following day's Sunday Times, though buried in the paper was a denunciation of antisemitism in South Africa, the country that brought the case.”
― Complicit: Britain's Role in the Destruction of Gaza
― Complicit: Britain's Role in the Destruction of Gaza
“The rise of Hamas was part of a regional trend that represented a response to what many perceived as the bankruptcy of the secular nationalist ideologies that had dominated politics in the Middle East for most of the twentieth century.”
― The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
― The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
“The thief holds a gavel; the liar holds a journalism degree; and the butcher's knives are publicly funded.”
― Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
― Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
“This far-right support for Israel was the culmination of long-term trends. The US-led 'Global War on Terror' had accustomed large numbers of people to think of Muslims as security threats: terrorists, infiltrators, or rapists. British Muslims became the enemy within; a dangerous social element that had to be subjected to special forms of surveillance and control. The far right exploited these fears to its advantage as demonising Islam and Muslims became its primary venture. Again and again the dominant political parties failed to challenge such ideas. At the same time, antisemitism was gradually redefined to mean criticism of Israel rather than animus or discrimination against Jews. This conceptual hijacking allowed the far right to posture as an opponent of antisemitism. And if the far right opposed antisemitism-well, perhaps it wasn't racist after all.”
― Complicit: Britain's Role in the Destruction of Gaza
― Complicit: Britain's Role in the Destruction of Gaza
“Eqbal Ahmad summed it up: "August 1947 marked the beginning of decolonisation, when British rule in India ended. It was in those days of hope and fulfilment that the colonisation of Palestine occurred. Thus at the dawn of decolonisation, we were returned to the earliest, most intense form of colonial menace... exclusivist settler colonialism." In other circumstances or in another era, replacing the indigenous population might have been feasible, especially in light of the long-standing and deep religious link felt by the Jews to the land in question—if this were the eighteenth or nineteenth century, if the Palestinians were as few as the Zionist settlers or as fully decimated as the native peoples of Australasia and North America. The longevity of the Palestinians' resistance to their dispossession, however, indicates that the Zionist movement, in the words of the late historian Tony Judt, "arrived too late," as it "imported a characteristically late-nineteenth-century separatist project into a world that has moved on.”
― The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
― The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
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