The Queen is dead, but her colonial legacy lives on in Israel-Palestine
JVL Introduction
Yael Berda reminds us of the legacy of British rule in Palestine, spelling out how colonial organizing principles can be found in Israel-Palestine today.
Indeed, the Mandate government’s 1945 Defense (Emergency) Regulations used against Jewish terrorists at the time, were incorporated into Israeli law in 1948.
They served as the legal basis for the military rule then imposed on Israel’s Arab citizens, and now in the occupied territories.
“There is now doubt,” says Berda, “that these regulations are the beating heart of the Israeli regime”
Indeed, Britain’s legacy extends further, looming “large over the Israeli regime’s obsession with separation and segregation of communities and its racial discrimination against native and “uncultured” groups…”
This article was originally published by the Landline, +972's newsletter on Tue 20 Sep 2022. Read the original here.
The Queen is dead, but her colonial legacy lives on in Israel-Palestine
While the British Mandate ended 74 years ago, its legacy of racial hierarchy, divide and rule, and emergency regulations is still visible in Israeli policy.
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A very succinct appraisal of the systemic poison we have spread around the world. The UK is unlikely to acknowledge its devastating role in the history of Palestine for to do so would put the skids under the approach to people management used in the UK to this day and its so-called interests around the globe.