With no reference to the political turbulence that Israel is currently experiencing within its settler-colonial society, let alone the horrors perpetrated by Zionist terror groups during the 1948 Nakba to establish the colonial enterprise on Palestinian land, US President Joe Biden has extended greetings to Israelis on the 75th anniversary of their ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Only he didn’t mention ethnic cleansing either. “When David Ben-Gurion declared Israel’s independence in 1948, he announced the birth of a state ‘based on freedom, justice and peace’. Just 11 minutes later, President Truman announced that the United States would be the first nation to recognise the government of Israel,” said a White House press statement. The rest of the statement glosses over Israel’s … Continue reading Covering up Israel’s settler-colonial foundations