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.
Well yeah its not really that the native americans are completely unaware of their native lands and that they did not have an western style housing situation. In an “international law” sense (I know) the Palestinians have an easier time, if you only count returning then the Native Land Areas Judicially Established back into indigenous hands then maybe.
Yeah, beginning with just the treaties being upheld would be an easier start. I definitely have some concerns about how realistic it will be to get broader support for anything more than that, even if it is obviously the correct thing to do. It is hard to imagine how we get there from our current position and trajectory