Last month, Israel’s National Security Minister, the far-right extremist Itamar Ben-Gvir, sought to facilitate the process for Israeli civilians to obtain firearms, citing a rise in applications since 2022 and the recent rise in Palestinian anti-colonial resistance against state and settler terror. “We have the duty to speed up the process and dramatically shorten the bureaucracy, for our children, for the lives of all of us,” he said. No mention was made by Ben-Gvir of Israel’s deadly incursions into Palestinian neighbourhoods and refugee camps, or the relatively recent rampage of Israeli settlers in Huwara which Major General Yehuda Fuchs of the Israel Defence Forces called a pogrom. The encouragement of more civilian gun ownership emulates the US stance. However, in … Continue reading There is a pretence of opposition to only one form of Israel’s colonial violence