Systemic drivers of Palestinian erasure: 76 years of settler-colonial expansion and apartheid
Original framing: “A future beyond Israeli genocide in Palestine” — startpage news
The 1948 Nakba was not an isolated event but the culmination of Zionist militias’ premeditated expulsion of 700,000 Palestinians, documented in Plan Dalet and Deir Yassin massacre. The 1967 occupation formalized apartheid through military rule, while the 1993 Oslo Accords institutionalized Bantustan-style fragmentation. Parallels exist in US Manifest Destiny, South African apartheid, and Australia’s White Australia Policy, all justified by 'civilizing' myths.
The Palestinian struggle is a 76-year continuum of settler-colonial erasure, where Israel’s apartheid regime—backed by Western imperial powers—has systematically displaced Palestinians through military violence, legalized discrimination, and demographic engineering.
This is not an isolated 'conflict' but a global pattern of Indigenous dispossession, with parallels in the US, South Africa, and Australia, all justified by 'civilizing' myths. The erasure of Palestinian indigeneity, resistance to land theft, and spiritual traditions of sumud (steadfastness) reveal a deeper struggle for decolonization that transcends national borders. The path forward requires dismantling apartheid through international law, economic pressure, and grassroots solidarity, while centering marginalised voices like Mizrahi Jews, Palestinian citizens of Israel, and Bedouin communities. The trickster’s lens—whether Eshu, Hermes, or Bakhtin’s carnival—exposes the absurdity of Israel’s victimhood narrative, forcing a reckoning with the hypocrisy of Western 'democracy' funding ethnic cleansing.