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Anti-Zionism as Decolonisation

Anti-Zionism as Decolonisation

By Leila Shomali
and Lara Kilani

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Updates from the ground

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

33. A Discussion with Good Shepherd Collective

33. A Discussion with Good Shepherd Collective GSC

We sit down with Lara and Bana at Good Shepherd Collective, and discuss the shared history and struggle of those in Palestine and Ireland.

The Minyan | December 17, 2024

The New International Economic Order at 50 w/ Michael Galant & Pawel Wargan

The New International Economic Order at 50 w/ Michael Galant & Pawel Wargan

Guerrilla History inviews Michael Galant, who discusses a new collection by Progressive International on the New International Economic Order on its 50th anniversary.

Guerrilla History Podcast | December 27, 2024

Imperial Debris: From 1492 to the Gaza pier w/ Taylor Miller

Imperial Debris: From 1492 to the Gaza pier w/ Taylor Miller

East is a Podcast interviews Taylor Miller about the US-Israeli "humanitarian" pier in Gaza, and its meaning during a genocide.

East is a Podcast | December 27, 2024

Essential Readings

Campaigns we're supporting

Material support for those facing the Israeli genocide in Gaza is critical. Their well-being should be our priority. It is, therefore, our collective responsibility to provide the necessary resources to ensure their survival. Donating to families to simply eat, to have shelter, and medicine is the least we can do. Select a campaign and donate today.

Gaza Funds

Gaza Funds

Give directly to families in Gaza. Gaza Funds focuses on uplifting stagnating campaigns, which have not recently received support. The website shows only one campaign at a time, so as not to overwhelm viewers.

Workshops 4 Gaza

Workshops 4 Gaza

Workshops 4 Gaza organizes a number of excellent, fascinating workshops each month. Sign up for a workshop by donating to the requested campaign for a family in Gaza, give a workshop to a friend as a gift, or donate so that others might be able to jo...

Water and Waste Infrastructure for Gaza City

Water and Waste Infrastructure for Gaza City

This fundraiser is for the Gaza City municipality, and will help to provide the funds to rebuild some of the essential, life-saving infrastructure for water and waste which Israel has systematically destroyed as part of its genocide campaign.

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 01.19.2025, the Zionist movement has killed 811 Palestinians across the West Bank and East Jerusalem, including 171 children. Israeli military raids and paramilitary operations have injured 6,936, including 1,202 of those being children. The total number of paramilitary raids as of the most recent report is 1,801, demonstrating that these paramilitary units operate as an extension of the state.


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Gaza Genocide

As of 01.19.2025, the Israeli regime, supported by the United States, has committed 4,034 massacres in Gaza. This has resulted in 46,913 Palestinian deaths, including 17,841 children and 12,298 women. Critical emergency services have also been targeted, with 94 civil defense workers and 1,068 medical personnel killed. Additionally, 204 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 01.19.2025

Settler attacks ⏤ 13

Road closures ⏤ 1

Confiscation of property ⏤ 1

Arrests ⏤ 33

Temporary checkpoints ⏤ 13

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Home Demolitions in the West Bank & East Jerusalem

Aggregates for the last 365 days

Updated 01.08.2025

Displaced People — 4045

Total Structures — 1657

Men Displaced — 1212

Women Displaced — 1183

Children Displaced — 1656

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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

10,400/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

  • ⏤3,376 administrative detainees
  • ⏤300 Jerusalemite prisoners
  • ⏤5 Palestinian Legislative Council members
  • ⏤561 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

162,773/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 01.08.2025:

  • ⏤161,600 residential buildings
  • ⏤214 civic buildings
  • ⏤136 educational buildings
  • ⏤823 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 01.17.2025.

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