Canada and Israel: Partners in the “Settler Colonial Contract”

These last eleven days of slaughter were an eruption of the continuous violence inherent to all projects of building a settler state on stolen land, in the face of Indigenous refusal to submit to colonial domination and disappear. [...] On top of the erasure of Indigenous lives, societies, and histories is the erasure of the ability to talk about it. [...] “Security” entails Israeli security companies invested in the open-air caging of Palestinians also contributing to the tools of mass institutional incarceration of Indigenous and Black people by the Canadian state. [...] As Israel attempts to erase Palestine from the physical landscape, social media platforms erase Palestinians from the virtual landscape, and Canadian governments try to erase Palestine solidarity from the political landscape by institutionalizing the conflation of criticisms of Israel with antisemitism. [...] From Canada to Palestine, Indigenous people have risked their safety, freedom, and lives time and time again, to expose the injustices and inhumanities of colonial rule and to show the beautiful possibilities of a world organized differently.