Timestamp 1:30:23 through 1:35:35. Captions will help to hear the question

Interesting take by Vijay here. I think I agree with him, although not surprised to hear him say that he had pushback from others.

He was asked what he thinks of settler-colonialism as a framework and how, or whether, it can be theoretically combined with imperialism.

His answer was that settler-colonialism is not useful. In the case of Israel, he thinks it is better addressed as a supremacist ethnostate and should be dismantled on that basis. If the issue is compressed into a settler-colonial model, then the implication is that the solution is to remove all Israelis from the land, which he finds objectionable. Furthermore he doesn’t want “a world of Israels”, a world of ethnically defined nations who are entitled to resist intrusion by other groups. Vijay instead argues that the end goal needs to be plurinational states that can tolerate diversity.

  • Jabril [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    10 days ago

    Eh there are at least some amount of people with Israeli citizenship who have always been staunch supporters of Palestine and can probably stay, a lot of orthodox for example, and maybe Ethiopian, mizrahi, Sephardic, etc. By and large I agree though, since the genocidal culture is so ingrained in many Israelis, they would probably need to be deported back to US and Europe purely because they are incapable/rejecting of remaining without doing harm to the people around them.

    Edit : just realizing you were specific enough with the areas you mentioned that the types of people living there in general are probably not the ones I’m talking about