The international community’s lenience towards Israel’s genocide in Gaza mirrors the complacency and complicity in the early years of Zionism. What we have seen through decades of Zionist colonisation in Palestine is the international community moving away from the stipulated human rights and international law violations to chart a new course of which violations can be debated, normalised and accepted. As Israel announced its intention to completely occupy Gaza and ethnically cleanse the area from Palestinians, reactions from within the settler-colonial, genocidal enterprise varied from the outright supportive to partly outraged. The worst part of this compromised spectrum is that even the expressed anger still finds shelter in colonialism. And one cannot forget that genocide, in Israel’s case, is a … Continue reading Colonialism, dissociation and genocide