#colonialviolence — Public Fediverse posts

'In the report #BTselem has written, we tried to read these political languages together. The word we settled on to describe what these seemingly separate acts add up to is “elimination.” The logic of elimination does not require every Palestinian to disappear. It seeks to make Palestinian collective life increasingly impossible while securing permanent Israeli Jewish control.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/opinion/israel-violence-palestine.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BFE.sJOL.xgtLeCQcxNkh&smid=nytcore-android-share
#Palestine #WestBank #Israel #oPt #colonialViolence

"The line that the onslaught by #Israel against #Gaza, the #WestBank and #Lebanon is about Hamas and Hizbullah is undercut by a closer look at the indiscriminate nature of the killing and uprooting of Arabs whatever their religion. The Vatican has expressed its concern at the violence against Christian villages in Southern Lebanon and in Gaza. St Porphyrius Church in Gaza was destroyed by Israel in October 2023."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/august/we-suffer-together
#Palestine #EastJerusalem #colonialViolence #oPt

Huge #OrangeShirt #memorial to honour all the native kids' lives lost in the cruel #ResidentialSchool system.
On the site of one of the worst in Canada - #Namgis territory, #AlertBay. It was called St. Michael's Indian Residential School. It was demolished in 2015. #Umista Cultural Center sits on the old site. #Indigenous peoples have reclaimed their land there & are trying to heal from colonial abuses.

We have racists in #Canada who are currently dishonouring the victims of residential schools by denying survivors' histories & saying mass graves are a lie. This is so wrong. We owe the ones who died & the living survivors support & reparations. Please don't let folks use denialism around you - confront them & stand up for the victims & survivors.

Relevant links:
https://collections.irshdc.ubc.ca/Detail/objects/518

https://orangeshirtday.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Michael%27s_Indian_Residential_School_(Alert_Bay)

https://www.umista.ca/

https://www.7generations.org/what-is-every-child-matters/

#IndigenousChildren #ColonialCrimes #ColonialViolence #ChurchAbuses #RacialViolence #IndigenousGenocide #EveryChildMatters #BelieveVictims #SupportSurvivors #NativeChildren #IndigenousChildren #ChildAbuse #ColonialCoverUps #TruthBeforeReconcilliation #Decolonization #DecolonizeYourMind #BritishColumbia #Canada #CrimesAgainstHumanity #CanadasGenocide #BChistory #CanadianHistory #StopRacism #SystemicRacism #SystematicAbuse

The Zinn Ed Project welcomes historian #NedBlackhawk to discuss his book #TheRediscoveryOfAmerica: #NativePeoples and the Unmaking of #USHistory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdWVO4vwDjM

#Indigenous #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanHistory #AmericanHistory #AmericanRevolution #SevenYearsWar #colonialism #colonialViolence #decolonialStudies #books @bookstodon

#UncivilizedMedia | A History of Forced Starvation, Explained

a #documentary by Tala Kaddoura

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgBCgLF7890

#film #courtMétrage #Gaza #GazaGenocide #GazaFamine #Palestine #Ireland #GreatFamine #IrishFamine #Namibia #HereroAndNamaGenocide #WarsawGhetto #Holocaust #colonialViolence @film @palestine @israel

#UncivilizedMedia | A History of Forced Starvation, Explained

a #documentary by Tala Kaddoura

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgBCgLF7890

#film #courtMétrage #Gaza #GazaGenocide #GazaFamine #Palestine #Ireland #GreatFamine #IrishFamine #Namibia #HereroAndNamaGenocide #WarsawGhetto #Holocaust #colonialViolence @film @palestine @israel

#UncivilizedMedia | A History of Forced Starvation, Explained

a #documentary by Tala Kaddoura

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgBCgLF7890

#film #courtMétrage #Gaza #GazaGenocide #GazaFamine #Palestine #Ireland #GreatFamine #IrishFamine #Namibia #HereroAndNamaGenocide #WarsawGhetto #Holocaust #colonialViolence @film @palestine @israel

#UncivilizedMedia | A History of Forced Starvation, Explained

a #documentary by Tala Kaddoura

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgBCgLF7890

#film #courtMétrage #Gaza #GazaGenocide #GazaFamine #Palestine #Ireland #GreatFamine #IrishFamine #Namibia #HereroAndNamaGenocide #WarsawGhetto #Holocaust #colonialViolence @film @palestine @israel

#NouraErakat addresses the EU parliament

Presentation given by Noura Erakat at the EU parliament on April 28 as part of the "Shall we call it genocide?" conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6QoA5IeErs&pp=ygULZnJhbmsgYmFyYXQ%3D

#Gaza #WarOnGaza #Palestine #GazaGenocide #UNGenocideConvention #colonialViolence #InternationalJustice @palestine @israel

#LettersAndPolitics | The #IrishPotatoFamine and its Consequences

guest: Padraic X. Scanlan, author of Rot: An Imperial History of the #IrishFamine

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-march-19-2025/

#GreatFamine #Ireland #IrishHistory #imperialism #BritishImperialism #colonialViolence #famines #books @histodons @bookstodon @ireland

#LettersAndPolitics | The #IrishPotatoFamine and its Consequences

guest: Padraic X. Scanlan, author of Rot: An Imperial History of the #IrishFamine

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-march-19-2025/

#GreatFamine #Ireland #IrishHistory #imperialism #BritishImperialism #colonialViolence #famines #books @histodons @bookstodon @ireland

#LettersAndPolitics | The #IrishPotatoFamine and its Consequences

guest: Padraic X. Scanlan, author of Rot: An Imperial History of the #IrishFamine

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-march-19-2025/

#GreatFamine #Ireland #IrishHistory #imperialism #BritishImperialism #colonialViolence #famines #books @histodons @bookstodon @ireland

#LettersAndPolitics | The #IrishPotatoFamine and its Consequences

guest: Padraic X. Scanlan, author of Rot: An Imperial History of the #IrishFamine

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-march-19-2025/

#GreatFamine #Ireland #IrishHistory #imperialism #BritishImperialism #colonialViolence #famines #books @histodons @bookstodon @ireland

The #Zapatista Army of National Liberation (#EZLN) 31st Anniversary Suspended: Cartel & #StateViolence Escalations in #Chiapas

"On January 1st, 1994, the #Mayan peoples’ traditional homelands were recovered after the 12-day armed uprising of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation..."

w/ #RichardStahlerSholk of the #SchoolOfChiapas

https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp/the-zapatista-army-of-national-liberation-ezln-31st-anniversary-suspended-cartel-state-violence-escalations-in-chiapas

#Maya #Mayans #Zapatistas #Zapatismo #Indigenous #NativeAmericans #LandDefenders #ColonialViolence #OTD

#AmericanIndianAirwaves

#LandbackForThePeople S2 Ep. 5

"#NickTilsen invites filmmakers #JulianBraveNoisecat (former #NDNCollective Media Fellow) and #EmilyKassie, directors of the award winning #documentary #Sugarcane, to have the conversation on #IndianBoardingSchools (known as #ResidentialSchools in #Canada) and its relationship with #LandBack."

https://youtu.be/BV-i8fsPwNc

#Indigenous #NativeResidentialSchools #NativeBoardingSchools #FirstNations #WilliamsLake #CdnPoli #CdnHist #ColonialViolence #cinema @film

Before I head out for the day ->
Recommended #documentary film.

Between 1952 and 1960, Britain fought a vicious war in Kenya against the anticolonial Mau Mau movement. It was an exceptionally bloody conflict, with atrocities committed on both sides. For decades, many of the worst abuses by British colonial forces were kept hidden. Piecing together survivor testimonies and expert analysis from British and Kenyan historians, this film tells a complete and detailed story for the first time of how Britain was involved in systemic torture – including accounts of murders, rapes and forced castrations.

A Very British Way of Torture is a film by Ed McGown and produced by Rob Newman.

Document archive is courtesy of the UK National Archives.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K4sSGd2w_rk

#ColonialViolence #GlobalSouth #Kenya #BritishColonizers #Colonialism #AfricanHistory #HumanHistory #Geopolitics #BritishHistory #ColonialExploitation #ColonialAbuses #MauMau #ColonialResistance #Decolonization #Educational #DocFilm #Africa #BlackHistory #POCstories #LearnHistory #SystematicRacism #Torture #WarCrimes #UKhistory #ColonialAtrocities #historians #history

#Wampanoag Voices: Demystifying the Legacy of the Thanksgiving Day Holiday Propaganda

#AmericanIndianAirwaves welcomes #LindaCoombs of the Wampanoag Tribe of Aquinnah, author of #ColonizationAndTheWampanoagStory

https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp/wampanoag-voices-demystifying-the-legacy-of-the-thanksgiving-day-holiday-propaganda

#Indigenous #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanHistory #ColonialViolence #NationalDayOfMourning #PlymouthColony #books @bookstodon

An Apology Meaning What? | The United States' Violent Legacy of Operating #NativeAmericanBoardingSchools

#AmericanIndianAirwaves speaks w/ Chris Peters, President of the #7thGenerationFund for #Indigenous Peoples

https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp/an-apology-meaning-what-the-united-states-violent-legacy-of-operating-native-american-boarding-schools
#NativeAmericans #NativeBoardingSchools #ColonialViolence #USpol #USpolitics #Biden

One of many earlier #British #ColonialCrimes in #SouthEastAsia. The #BriggsPlan in #Malaysia.

The Nazi regime during WWII forever gave the term #ConcentrationCamp a name symbolic of #atrocity, so when British #colonizers once again visited the idea of #ForcedRelocation of #IndigenousPeoples to isolate them they needed another name for the enclaves. They came up with #NewVillages. The New Villages were created under the Briggs Plan, which was developed to combat the communist insurgency in #Malaya during the 1950 #MalayanEmergency. The plan was prepared by Sir Harold Briggs, a British General who was the Director of Operations in Malaya.

#Britain lost the Malayan Peninsula and their fortress at Singapore to the Japanese during WWII and reoccupied their former dominion after the fall of Japan. Among the many difficulties the British encountered was the presence of roughly a half-million #Chinese in rural Malaya, most working as farmers working small plots of land for their own sustenance on land they did not own or lease. The British administration regarded these Chinese as squatters and found them a problem because they were physically distant from the machinery of British authority, which most of the Malayan population was not happy to see return to their country.

When the Malayan #CommunistParty received support from armed #guerrillas from Malaya and #China, the British, intent on restoring #Imperial rule to the peninsula, looked with additional distrust upon these rural Chinese. While some of the Chinese were certainly sympathetic to the communists, most were indifferent. The British concern was that the communist #insurgents would receive support from the squatters in the form of food, neglecting the fact that the majority of the Chinese squatters were barely able to grow enough to support themselves. The Briggs plan required the forced relocation of the Chinese.

The New Villages isolated the Chinese, and they were guarded by Malayan police and British Military Police and some troops. The Chinese could not leave the villages except under escort and nobody was allowed in without the permission of the guards, making them effectively prisons. The villages were built with running water and electricity, amenities absent from most Malayan villages, and health care and some educational facilities were provided. This caused resentment towards the British from the Malay outside the villages, who didn’t receive the same amenities, and the Chinese, who resented the forced relocation settlement.

Although the New Villages, of which 450 were built, were an improvement over the forced detention camps of the Boer War, and death rates in the villages were roughly the same as for the rest of the country, there were racially motivated #CollectivePunishments directed towards the Chinese population in the villages. #Deportation without trial by the administration was a common punishment for the Chinese. Law within the villages was the decision of the British. Many of the villages are still standing and in recent years have been restored to serve as tourist destinations by the Malaysian government with support from China.

#AsianMastodon #SouthEastAsia #TootSEA #ColonialismInAsia #Decolonization #DecolonialLearning #ColonizerCrimes #ColonialViolence #Decolonize #AsianHistory #MalaysianHistory #LearnYourColonialHistory

Privatized ethnic cleansing by Israel.
Sponsored by USA.
Allies in Geopolitical Genocidal Evil Terrorism.

After a year of genocide, Israel is ready for the next stage: outsourcing the military occupation of Gaza to foreign firms. What can Palestinians expect in these so-called “gated communities”?

This is an #educational video for international audiences on #geopolitics of Zionist terrorism #MediaManipulation tactics.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SfUWqCow_lg

Sourced from:
https://t.me/Hoopoeplatform

#FreePalestine
#ColonialViolence
#EthnicCleansing
#IsraelIsATerroristState
#IsraelWarCrimes
#RacistIsrael
#IsraelRogueState
#ArmsEmbargoOnIsrael
#USAFundsGenocide
#USAFundsTerrorism
#BoycottIsrael
#BDSMovement
#BoycottIsraeliApartheid
#Genocide
#ApartheidIsrael
#SanctionIsrael
#EvilUSA
#EvilIsrael
#ZionismIsACult
#Zionists
#Colonizers
#ConcentrationCamps
#LestWeForget
#NeverAgain
#CrimesAgainstHumanity
#WarCriminals

The notion of #police being there to #ServeAndProtect in times of need often does not apply to #Indigenous, #Black or other #RacializedMinorities in #Canada. The notion of “help” more often resembles harm.

This leads to the question, why does #PoliceBrutality against Indigenous and Black people continue to happen? Because it is a symptom of the structural #racism that exists within #Canadian society.

You can read article & download the brief:
https://yellowheadinstitute.org/2020/07/15/police-brutality-in-canada-a-symptom-of-structural-racism-and-colonial-violence/

#ACAB #CDNpoli #BCpoli #SystematicRacism #RacializedViolence #CriminalCops #NoAccountability #AbolishPoliceUnions #AbolishRCMPCIRG #ColonialViolence #Racism #BIPOC #Injustices #HumanRights #CopsAreCriminals