Israel is a European Settler Colony. It was Never Anything But

Sir Ronald Storrs Governor of Jerusalem 1917-26
"Even though the land could not yet absorb sixteen million, nor even eight, enough could return, if not to form the Jewish State (which a few extremists publicly demanded), at least to prove that the enterprise was one that blessed him that gave [Britain] as well as him that took [Zionism] by forming for England a little loyal Jewish Ulster in a sea of potentially hostile Arabism."

John Clarke

Toronto 

Past Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) organizer. Presently part of 230 Fightback

 

An important line must be drawn at this time. We have to be clear that the problem with Israel is not reducible to the brutal right-wing trajectory of its political leadership or the ugly views of the great bulk of its population. 

These factors are horrible and dangerous effects but they are not causes and they are not subject to any effective form of correction or modification. 

 

At this time, as Israel's crimes reach ever more deranged levels of atrocity, a trend is emerging that reluctantly admits something is very wrong but that seeks to present the problem as a set of faults that can be corrected. This subterfuge can't go unchallenged.

 

The establishment of a settler-colonial state on stolen Palestinian land, that served the interests of imperialism and regional domination, fundamentally defined the project in irreversible ways. Dispossession, ethnic cleansing, exclusion, occupation and genocide are defining traits of such an undertaking. 

 

The political ideology of Zionism, under which the colonial project has been conducted, though it has its variations and conflicting camps, has always served the purpose of creating and maintaining an ethnostate. As such, it is fundamentally and deeply racist in nature, even when its liberal wing and its international supporters try to square the circle.

 

This is why, as Israel's legitimacy implodes and ways are sought to salvage its reputation, it is imperative to advance a clear and principled perspective. We must declare, without equivocation, qualification or mealy mouthed apologies, the undeniable truth that Zionism is racism.