Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s address to the US Congress on Wednesday was a mix of melodrama and colonial nostalgia. Attempting to conceal the politics of settler-colonialism and collaboration, Herzog made vague references to hope, unity and democracy, even as Israel’s military-industrial complex remains a major exporter of colonial surveillance and violence to the rest of the world. “Israel’s first seventy-five years were rooted in an ancient dream. Let us base our next seventy-five years on hope. Our shared hope, that we can heal our fractured world, as the closest of allies and friends,” Herzog told US lawmakers. Yet, Israel recently not only fractured Jenin refugee camp, but destroyed it, rendering a forcibly displaced population refugees once again. The US, as … Continue reading An exercise in omitting Israel’s colonial foundations