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Anti-Zionism as Decolonisation

Anti-Zionism as Decolonisation

By Leila Shomali
and Lara Kilani

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The conversations you should be having

These podcasts represent the critical discourse and analysis that advance global movements of liberation. Browse through this carefully curated list to learn more about imperialism, colonialism, and how we organize against systems explotation and violence. Check out the library

The West Bank, and the Nature of Resistance w/ Bana & Lara from the Good Shepherd Collective

The West Bank, and the Nature of Resistance w/ Bana & Lara from the Good Shepherd Collective GSC

Bana Abu Zuluf and Lara Kilani, discuss the West Bank, the nature of resistance, the one-year mark of genocide in Gaza.

Guerrilla History | October 4, 2024

October Seventh Fourteen Ninety Two / Mohamed Abdou

October Seventh Fourteen Ninety Two / Mohamed Abdou

Dr. Mohamed Abdou joins discusses Al-Aqsa Flood, the US-Israel genocide in Gaza, and decolonization as “a world of many belows,” sharing his experiences facing threats at Columbia University’s Palestine solidarity encampment.

Last Born In The Wilderness | October 22, 2024

Indigenous Peoples’ Day vs. Empire

Indigenous Peoples’ Day vs. Empire

The Red Nation marks Indigenous Peoples' Day 2024 with an online discussion moderated by Red Power Hour's Melanie Yazzie

The Red Nation | October 14, 2024

Essential Readings

Critical Palestinian figures

The Palestinian Revolution emerged to achieve the impossible, not what's possible.

George Habash | al Lydd, Palestine

Everything in this world can be robbed and stolen, except one thing; this one thing is the love that emanates from a human being towards a solid commitment to a conviction or cause.

Ghassan Kanafani | Akka, Palestine

People will discover that the suffering of the Intifada was more honorable and lighter than the suffering of delusional independence

Fathi al-Shiqaqi | Rafah, Palestine

They sold the homeland to their enemies out of gluttony, But they also sold their homelands too They might have been excused if hunger tempted them, By God, they have never thirsted nor hungered in their life

Ibrahim Tuqan | Nablus, Palestine

I am an Arab volunteer. I came to defend freedom in Madrid - to defend Damascus in Guadalajara, Jerusalem in Cordoba, Baghdad in Toledo, Cairo in Zaragoza, and Tétouan in Burgos.

Najati Sidqi | Jerualem, Palestine

Everything that you do for resistance, if you don’t get it in your life, you will get it later on. Resistance is a constant endeavor.

Basil al-Araj | al-Walaja, Palestine

The measure of a person's humanity is determined by their attachment to the cause of their homeland, nation, and people, not by their narcissism and self-interest. The pinnacle and peak of national belonging is when a person offers the most precious thing they have to what they consider more important than themselves: which is the homeland, the cause, and the belonging to them.

Jamal Mansour | Nablus, Palestine

Every intellectual that does not engage in praxis is not worthy of being a cadre member in a revolutionary organization.

Hanna Mikhail | Ramallah, Palestine

The city night is dark apart from the glow of missiles, silent apart from the sound of bombing, terrifying apart from the reassurance of prayer, black except for the light of the martyrs. Good night, Gaza.

Heba Abu Nada | Gaza, Palestine

In light of the occupation's behavior and its disregard for international laws and resolutions, and in light of American and Western support and international silence, we have decided to put an end to all of this so that the enemy understands that the time has come to be held accountable. We announce the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, and by the grace and power of God, we announce that the first strike of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, which targeted the enemy's sites, airports, and military fortifications during the first twenty minutes, has surpassed five thousand rockets and shells.

Mohammad Deif | Khan Younis, Palestine

The Democratic Party and Biden are responsible for the Gaza genocide perpetrated by Israel.

Refaat al-Areer | Shejaiya, Palestine

Zionism's data points⤵

The violence of settler-colonialism in numbers

Israel, as a settler-colonial construction, is premised on the elimination of the natives. The violence of Indigenous erasure is animated throughout these structures of the state. This data provides a small subset of the violence enacted to maintain and perpetuate zionism.

Map of Gaza's destroyed roads

Gaza's infrastructure

Critical in carrying out a genocide, Israel methodically dismantled Gaza's infrastructure. This map is one data point that shows the vast destruction of Gaza's road system.

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West Bank & E. Jerusalem

Injuries & Deaths since 10.7.2023

As of 12.03.2024, the Zionist movement has killed 764 Palestinians across the West Bank and East Jerusalem, including 163 children. Israeli military raids and paramilitary operations have injured 6,678, including 1,146 of those being children. The total number of paramilitary raids as of the most recent report is 1,695, demonstrating that these paramilitary units operate as an extension of the state.


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Gaza Genocide

As of 12.03.2024, the Israeli regime, supported by the United States, has committed 3,871 massacres in Gaza. This has resulted in 44,502 Palestinian deaths, including 17,581 children and 12,048 women. Critical emergency services have also been targeted, with 87 civil defense workers and 1,055 medical personnel killed. Additionally, 192 journalists have been assassinated to suppress independent reporting.
Map of Gaza's destruction

Damage Report

Critical in carrying out a genocide, Israel methodically dismantled Gaza's infrastructure. This map is one data point that shows the vast destruction of Gaza's road system.

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Violence across the West Bank & East Jerusalem

A daily snapshot of violence

For the date of 12.03.2024

Settler attacks ⏤ 2

Road closures ⏤ 0

Confiscation of property ⏤ 1

Arrests ⏤ 34

Temporary checkpoints ⏤ 20

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Home Demolitions in the West Bank & East Jerusalem

Aggregates for the last 365 days

Updated 11.25.2024

Displaced People — 4398

Total Structures — 1694

Men Displaced — 1318

Women Displaced — 1291

Children Displaced — 1789

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Data in context

This data is critical for developing advocacy programs that demonstrate how zionism, as a settler-colonial ideology, is enacted through the destruction of Palestinian lives and land.

Information alone doesn't liberate. These data points have to be integrated into a political program that articulates a vision of decolonization and justice.

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Political Prisoners

Political Prisoners

7000/total

Languishing in colonial prisons

It's critical to remember, that within a system of settler-colonialism, every Palestinian in Israeli jails are by definition political prisoners.

Behind the numbers

  • ⏤700 administrative detainees
  • ⏤450 Jerusalemite prisoners
  • ⏤6 Palestinian Legislative Council members
  • ⏤458 serving life sentences
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U.S. Nonprofit industry

money

$22.0 billion/last 10 years

U.S. Federal + Local taxes diverted to colonialism

Historically, international charitable structures have been utilized to finance imperialism and colonialism.

Top U.S. institutions

  • ⏤$4,433,488,000
    Jewish Agency For Israel
  • ⏤$1,843,396,951
    United Israel Appeal Inc
  • ⏤$1,642,681,081
    Jewish Community Federation Of S F Marin Peninsula & Sonoma Counties
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Destruction of Gaza

Figma

161,662/structures

Destruction during the genocide

The dismantling of life-giving infrastructure, such as homes, hospitals, and schools is crucial in enacting genocide across a wide geographic area.

Structures destroyed as of 11.29.2024:

  • ⏤160,500 residential buildings
  • ⏤211 civic buildings
  • ⏤132 educational buildings
  • ⏤819 mosques destroyed
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Children held captive in Israeli military confinement

Data Overview

This data visualization is built on the public data from DCI Palestine. Where null values are present, we estimate and fill in missing data points on the chart, by identifying known values and calculating the gaps between them. In return, it ensures the chart remains easy to read and interpret, even when some data is missing.

Where values have been interpolated they are designated with the color ●.

Most recent date: 10.2024

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Administrative Detention

Administrative detention refers to a unique system in which Palestinian prisoners—children and adults—are held in the Israeli prison system without charge or trial. They are held in administrative detention through the use of secret evidence which is not disclosed to the detainee or their legal representative, and therefore have no means to challenge the process. Administrative detainees can be detained for periods up to six months at a time which can be reissued by military court judges. There is no limit to the number of times the orders for administrative detention can be renewed, meaning that child prisoners face indefinite imprisonment. In effect, they have no right to due process under this system, or any real agency to challenge the orders against them and a potentially indefinite detention.

Date range: 01.2008 - 09.2024

Estimated current amount: 85

Last reported amount: 85 | 09.2024

Detention

Date range: 01.2008 - 09.2024

Estimated current amount: 242

Last reported amount: 242 | 09.2024

12 to 15 years-olds in detention

Date range: 01.2008 - 09.2024

Estimated current amount: 1

Last reported amount: 0 | 09.2024

Mapping colonial violence

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Event data

Click on the red dot to zoom and view the data.

This map, by its nature, is not exhaustive. The phenomenon of underreporting is a significant issue, particularly with regard to Israeli settler-colonial aggression, much of which remains undocumented and unreported. It is imperative to interpret this map as representing a fraction of the incidents of violence associated with the Israeli state. The Good Shepherd Collective has utilized data compiled by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) to depict various incidents across historical Palestine and beyond. The narrative descriptions provided herein are attributed to ACLED.

The data ranges from 01.01.2016 to 11.29.2024.

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