#ethnonationalism — Public Fediverse posts

What is driving racism, hate and violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people?

* "The Voice campaign...brought racism many First Nations people experience daily to the fore."

A parliamentary inquiry "follows several violent incidents, including the attack on Camp Sovereignty in Melbourne in August 2025 (and importantly, a new attack on August 2 2026), and the alleged attempted bombing of an Invasion Day rally in Perth."

"At public hearings around the country, First Nations people and organisations have described racism in workplaces, schools, public institutions and online. They have also warned racist abuse is becoming more open, more organised and easier to spread."

"...Political campaigns don’t just reflect existing prejudice. They can create moments when hostile ideas become easier to express, repeat and share.Around Anzac Day and the March for Australia, more than 96% of the hate detected directly targeted First Nations identity. White supremacist claims (that is, posts implying or explicitly asserting the superiority of White, settler or European Australians) and dehumanising language made up almost 90% of the total hateful posts.Around March for Australia alone, white supremacy accounted for 69% of detected hate."

"The findings show something important: online hate follows recognisable patterns. It builds around political campaigns, public controversies and events connected with national identity."

"The parliamentary inquiry now has an opportunity to move from recognising the problem to acting on the evidence. " >>
https://theconversation.com/what-three-million-online-posts-reveal-about-anti-first-nations-hate-in-australia-289052

* Understanding Anti First Nations Hate Online in Australia report >>
https://tacklinghate.org/lab-insights/understanding-anti-first-nations-hate-online-in-australia/
#FirstNations #dehumanisation #WhiteSupremacy #EthnoNationalism #NationalIdentity #racism #hostility #referendum #TheVoice #hate #TacklingHate #IndigenousPeoples #experience #SettlerSociety #violence

What is driving racism, hate and violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people?

* "The Voice campaign...brought racism many First Nations people experience daily to the fore."

A parliamentary inquiry "follows several violent incidents, including the attack on Camp Sovereignty in Melbourne in August 2025 (and importantly, a new attack on August 2 2026), and the alleged attempted bombing of an Invasion Day rally in Perth."

"At public hearings around the country, First Nations people and organisations have described racism in workplaces, schools, public institutions and online. They have also warned racist abuse is becoming more open, more organised and easier to spread."

"...Political campaigns don’t just reflect existing prejudice. They can create moments when hostile ideas become easier to express, repeat and share.Around Anzac Day and the March for Australia, more than 96% of the hate detected directly targeted First Nations identity. White supremacist claims (that is, posts implying or explicitly asserting the superiority of White, settler or European Australians) and dehumanising language made up almost 90% of the total hateful posts.Around March for Australia alone, white supremacy accounted for 69% of detected hate."

"The findings show something important: online hate follows recognisable patterns. It builds around political campaigns, public controversies and events connected with national identity."

"The parliamentary inquiry now has an opportunity to move from recognising the problem to acting on the evidence. " >>
https://theconversation.com/what-three-million-online-posts-reveal-about-anti-first-nations-hate-in-australia-289052

* Understanding Anti First Nations Hate Online in Australia report >>
https://tacklinghate.org/lab-insights/understanding-anti-first-nations-hate-online-in-australia/
#FirstNations #dehumanisation #WhiteSupremacy #EthnoNationalism #NationalIdentity #racism #hostility #referendum #TheVoice #hate #TacklingHate #IndigenousPeoples #experience #SettlerSociety #violence

What is driving racism, hate and violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people?

* "The Voice campaign...brought racism many First Nations people experience daily to the fore."

A parliamentary inquiry "follows several violent incidents, including the attack on Camp Sovereignty in Melbourne in August 2025 (and importantly, a new attack on August 2 2026), and the alleged attempted bombing of an Invasion Day rally in Perth."

"At public hearings around the country, First Nations people and organisations have described racism in workplaces, schools, public institutions and online. They have also warned racist abuse is becoming more open, more organised and easier to spread."

"...Political campaigns don’t just reflect existing prejudice. They can create moments when hostile ideas become easier to express, repeat and share.Around Anzac Day and the March for Australia, more than 96% of the hate detected directly targeted First Nations identity. White supremacist claims (that is, posts implying or explicitly asserting the superiority of White, settler or European Australians) and dehumanising language made up almost 90% of the total hateful posts.Around March for Australia alone, white supremacy accounted for 69% of detected hate."

"The findings show something important: online hate follows recognisable patterns. It builds around political campaigns, public controversies and events connected with national identity."

"The parliamentary inquiry now has an opportunity to move from recognising the problem to acting on the evidence. " >>
https://theconversation.com/what-three-million-online-posts-reveal-about-anti-first-nations-hate-in-australia-289052

* Understanding Anti First Nations Hate Online in Australia report >>
https://tacklinghate.org/lab-insights/understanding-anti-first-nations-hate-online-in-australia/
#FirstNations #dehumanisation #WhiteSupremacy #EthnoNationalism #NationalIdentity #racism #hostility #referendum #TheVoice #hate #TacklingHate #IndigenousPeoples #experience #SettlerSociety #violence

What is driving racism, hate and violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people?

* "The Voice campaign...brought racism many First Nations people experience daily to the fore."

A parliamentary inquiry "follows several violent incidents, including the attack on Camp Sovereignty in Melbourne in August 2025 (and importantly, a new attack on August 2 2026), and the alleged attempted bombing of an Invasion Day rally in Perth."

"At public hearings around the country, First Nations people and organisations have described racism in workplaces, schools, public institutions and online. They have also warned racist abuse is becoming more open, more organised and easier to spread."

"...Political campaigns don’t just reflect existing prejudice. They can create moments when hostile ideas become easier to express, repeat and share.Around Anzac Day and the March for Australia, more than 96% of the hate detected directly targeted First Nations identity. White supremacist claims (that is, posts implying or explicitly asserting the superiority of White, settler or European Australians) and dehumanising language made up almost 90% of the total hateful posts.Around March for Australia alone, white supremacy accounted for 69% of detected hate."

"The findings show something important: online hate follows recognisable patterns. It builds around political campaigns, public controversies and events connected with national identity."

"The parliamentary inquiry now has an opportunity to move from recognising the problem to acting on the evidence. " >>
https://theconversation.com/what-three-million-online-posts-reveal-about-anti-first-nations-hate-in-australia-289052

* Understanding Anti First Nations Hate Online in Australia report >>
https://tacklinghate.org/lab-insights/understanding-anti-first-nations-hate-online-in-australia/
#FirstNations #dehumanisation #WhiteSupremacy #EthnoNationalism #NationalIdentity #racism #hostility #referendum #TheVoice #hate #TacklingHate #IndigenousPeoples #experience #SettlerSociety #violence

What is driving racism, hate and violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people?

* "The Voice campaign...brought racism many First Nations people experience daily to the fore."

A parliamentary inquiry "follows several violent incidents, including the attack on Camp Sovereignty in Melbourne in August 2025 (and importantly, a new attack on August 2 2026), and the alleged attempted bombing of an Invasion Day rally in Perth."

"At public hearings around the country, First Nations people and organisations have described racism in workplaces, schools, public institutions and online. They have also warned racist abuse is becoming more open, more organised and easier to spread."

"...Political campaigns don’t just reflect existing prejudice. They can create moments when hostile ideas become easier to express, repeat and share.Around Anzac Day and the March for Australia, more than 96% of the hate detected directly targeted First Nations identity. White supremacist claims (that is, posts implying or explicitly asserting the superiority of White, settler or European Australians) and dehumanising language made up almost 90% of the total hateful posts.Around March for Australia alone, white supremacy accounted for 69% of detected hate."

"The findings show something important: online hate follows recognisable patterns. It builds around political campaigns, public controversies and events connected with national identity."

"The parliamentary inquiry now has an opportunity to move from recognising the problem to acting on the evidence. " >>
https://theconversation.com/what-three-million-online-posts-reveal-about-anti-first-nations-hate-in-australia-289052

* Understanding Anti First Nations Hate Online in Australia report >>
https://tacklinghate.org/lab-insights/understanding-anti-first-nations-hate-online-in-australia/
#FirstNations #dehumanisation #WhiteSupremacy #EthnoNationalism #NationalIdentity #racism #hostility #referendum #TheVoice #hate #TacklingHate #IndigenousPeoples #experience #SettlerSociety #violence

Zionism is Racism

by Graham Wroe

“Zionism is Racism” is a motion written by Lubna Speitan, which was proposed to the Green Party Conference in Spring 2026. Unfortunately, despite massive support at the conference, it was not debated due to filibustering by a tiny minority of conference attendees. It is now on the Agenda for the Autumn Conference, to be held in Brighton on October 2nd-4th.

The motion has taken on a life of its own and is now being debated by many groups and Trade Unions. Maybe you could get your group or Trade Union to support it?

I have proposed a motion to be debated at the Sheffield Green Party members’ meeting on Monday, August 10th. If you are a member, please come along and support the motion. If not, it’s not too late to join.

Pre-amble

Sheffield Greens have always campaigned for the rights of Palestinian people and are proud members of the Sheffield Palestine Coalition against Israeli Apartheid. As the world’s attention has turned to Iran, the Genocide continues in Gaza and settlers, backed by the Israeli regime, continue to murder and steal Palestinian land in the West Bank. Our Government continues to send weapons to Israel, clamp down on protests, and imprison activists who take direct action to stop the genocide or even express support for direct action.

At our Autumn conference, the Green Party will discuss a vitally important motion that will change the nature of political debate about Israel/Palestine in this country. It already has over 700 supporters on the member’s website, and many organisations outside the party are backing it, including the local group “Sheffield Jews Against Israeli Apartheid”. The “Zionism is Racism” motion sets out the strongest position possible on Palestinian rights, while firmly opposing the weaponisation of antisemitism allegations to silence legitimate criticism of Israel. It also advocates for the de-proscription of P@lestine Action and the release of all political prisoners that the state has targeted in relation to non-violent direct action in solidarity with the Palestinian people. My motion below is co-seconded by a diverse group of Sheffield Green Party members, including people from Muslim, Jewish, Christian, and no-faith backgrounds. 

Motion

Sheffield Green Party endorses the Zionism is Racism motion and urges members to support and vote for it at conference on 2nd-4th October.

The full text of the Zionism is Racism motion is on the members’ website (Motion A3) and is reprinted below.

Zionism is Racism

Motion Type

Type:

E Motion (Policy)

Synopsis

This motion defines Zionism, recognises its continued harm to Palestinians, and
seeks to clarify that the Green Party is opposed to Zionism. It further affirms
the right to self-determination and liberation of the Palestinian people and
supports the establishment of a single democratic Palestinian State in all of
historic Palestine.

Motion text

Zionism is a political ideology which called for the creation – and, now it
exists, the continuity – of an ethnonationalist Jewish State in historic
Palestine to the exclusion and/or domination of the non-Jewish population. The
real, material manifestation of Zionism has been the historic and ongoing
dehumanisation, displacement, dispossession, disenfranchisement and destruction of Palestinians. This is based upon European settler-colonial systems of domination and oppression, which has also created racial hierarchies between
Jews of different ethnicities in Palestine.

The practice of Zionist ideology, promoting ethnonationalism, privileges one
ethnic group on the basis of the subjugation of others. Zionism is Israel’s
foundational ideology.

Zionism has created and seeks to maintain — and where possible—expand an
apartheid regime between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, designed to cement the supremacy of one group, Jews, over another, Palestinians. As such,
Zionism is racist.

This motion is aimed at the political ideology and practice of Zionism, as
defined, and not at the religious or ethnic background of those who may identify
as Zionists. Not all Jews are Zionists and not all Zionists are Jews.

Rejecting Zionism and supporting the liberation of the Palestinian people is not
discriminatory against Jewish people. Nor is it discriminatory to support the
establishment of a single democratic Palestinian State between the Jordan river
and the Mediterranean Sea with equal rights for all.

Zionism is fundamentally incompatible with anti-racist principles, equality and
justice.

CONFERENCE RESOLVES THAT:

1. The Green Party declares itself to be an anti-Zionist party.

2. The Green Party rejects attempts to normalise the racist subjugation and
oppression of Palestinians; to equate anti-Zionism with antisemitism; to deny or
minimise Palestinian human rights; to create hierarchies of racism; and to
normalise or attempt to justify apartheid, ethnic cleansing or genocide. We
affirm that definitions of anti-Jewish discrimination should not equate Jewish
identity with Zionist ideology or political practice. As with any ethnicity or
faith group, no single political ideology should be ascribed to an entire
people.

3. Following from Motion E05, which affirmed that Israel is an apartheid State
committing genocide, and Motion E07 supporting reparations and accountability,
the Green Party supports the establishment of a single democratic Palestinian
State in all of historic Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital, equal rights
for all, and the right of return for Palestinians and their descendants.

4. The Green Party affirms the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to self-
determination, including the right of the Palestinian people to resistance and
liberation from Israeli occupation, domination and subjugation, and acknowledges
that the struggle to achieve that liberation by all available means under
international law is legitimate.

5. The Green Party heeds the call from Palestinian civil society to impose broad
boycotts and implement divestment initiatives against Israel similar to those
applied to South Africa in the apartheid era, and calls upon the United Kingdom
Government to impose full embargoes and sanctions against Israel.

6. The Green Party calls for the release of all Palestinian prisoners of
conscience (including Marwan Barghouti), the end of the use of administrative
detention of Palestinians by Israel, and the treatment of Palestinian combatants
in accordance with international humanitarian law, including in particular those
provisions dealing with prisoners of war in the First Additional Protocol of the
1977 amendments to the Four Genevan Conventions of 1949 relating to the
Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts.

7. The Green Party calls for the removal of P@lestine Action from the list of
proscribed organisations in Schedule 2 to the Terrorism Act 2000 (i.e. de-
proscription).

8. The Green Party calls for the release of all prisoners detained for non-
violent direct action in support of Palestinian rights and the end of the
genocide, apartheid and the illegal occupation of Palestine and supports the
demands of the Prisoners for Palestine 4

ACTIONS FOR THE PARTY TO TAKE:

The Green Party adopts the following action points:

• This motion will be incorporated into the Green Party’s Record of Policy
  Statements as appropriate and promoted in accordance with our rules and
  procedures.
• Zionism, as defined above, will be treated as any other form of racism,
  and this motion will be implemented by the Anti-Racism Policy Working
  Group as appropriate and in accordance with its ordinary practice.
• The positions on international policy within this motion will be
  implemented by the International Policy Working Group as appropriate and
  in accordance with its ordinary practice.

We affirm our commitment to explicitly opposing Zionism in our internal and
external communications going forward.

The UK and Welsh Parliaments, the London and Mayoral Assemblies, and Local
Councils and Local Authorities must exercise their authority to end the
genocide, occupation and apartheid. Elected Green representatives will continue
to put pressure on all and any relevant bodies to achieve these goals. This
motion ensures our positions comply with international law, equity, and our
commitment to justice and human rights.

MPs, London and Mayoral Assembly Members, Councillors, and prospective Members
of the Senedd should take measures at their respective chambers to create local,
sub-national, and national action for Palestine, ending any investments in
Israel; demanding peace and accountability, and an end to the egregious
violations of international humanitarian law and the genocide conventions, and
an immediate move towards accountability, reparations, and justice for the
Palestinian people.

There was a good discussion on this recently, organised by Greens for Palestine.

Do watch the whole video, but if you are pressed for time fast forward to Lubna’s speech at 24 minutes in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiZi6uBttUs

I have heard some people say, “but there are different types of Zionism, what about Zionists that don’t support Apartheid or the Genocide?” It is impossible to maintain Zionism as defined in the motion as “a political ideology which called for the creation – and, now it exists, the continuity – of an ethnonationalist Jewish State in historic
Palestine to the exclusion and/or domination of the non-Jewish population” without violence, discrimination and oppression. It may be true that there are, or were, different types of Zionism, but this is not relevant as the motion provides a clear definition. 

Christian Zionism is very much part of the problem. Some Christian groups like the Amos Trust do an amazing job supporting Palestinians. But some Fundamentalist and Conservative Christians, especially in the United States, view the Jewish state as an instrument for fulfilling their own apocalyptic prophecy.   All Zionists believe in the right to a Jewish state in Palestine, and this is the heart of the problem. The same argument was used against the abolition of slavery. “Some slave owners are good and don’t mistreat their slaves”, they would argue. But of course, it was the denial of people’s freedom that was the core of the problem. Zionism denies the freedom of the Palestinians.

I have heard some people say this motion is antisemitic. Nothing could be further from the truth. The motion is backed by many Jewish groups. Being anti-zionist is often wrongly conflated with being antisemitic. Professor David Miller was sacked by Bristol University for his anti-zionist views. Recently, he won his tribunal against them, confirming that anti-zionism is a protected belief in this country under the Equality Act.

I have also heard some people say this motion will be divisive. Unfortunately the division existed before the motion. Many good Green Party candidates have been suspended on the grounds of anti-semitism, when in fact they are nothing of the sort. Also good people have been expelled from the party for anti semitism, when they are not racist, simply anti-zionist.

The Green Party must never be afraid to do what is right. That may at times cause division, as it did when we proudly backed the rights of trans people. This led to some expulsions and resignations from a small minority that disagreed, but it also led to growth in the party as many LGBTQIA+ people flocked to join us. No one likes conflict within the party, but sometimes it has to happen. If some Zionists leave as a result, so be it. I’m sure many more supporters of the Palestinian people will join.

Some say the motion is inconsequential. I strongly beg to differ! The motion puts us in the forefront of the Palestine Solidarity movement, offering a just solution to the conflict. Just like the end of Apartheid in South Africa, a single state solution is the best hope for the Middle East. The call for broad boycotts and divestment from Israel, of the sort that was so successful against Apartheid South Africa, is much needed and can be promoted by Green Party Councillors throughout the country. We must stand up for those convicted of terrorism for taking part in Non-Violent Direct Action, and for those arrested simply for displaying a message on a piece of card.

Please join me in supporting this motion and making the Green Party an anti-Zionist Party.

Zionism is Racism

by Graham Wroe

“Zionism is Racism” is a motion written by Lubna Speitan, which was proposed to the Green Party Conference in Spring 2026. Unfortunately, despite massive support at the conference, it was not debated due to filibustering by a tiny minority of conference attendees. It is now on the Agenda for the Autumn Conference, to be held in Brighton on October 2nd-4th.

The motion has taken on a life of its own and is now being debated by many groups and Trade Unions. Maybe you could get your group or Trade Union to support it?

I have proposed a motion to be debated at the Sheffield Green Party members’ meeting on Monday, August 10th. If you are a member, please come along and support the motion. If not, it’s not too late to join.

Pre-amble

Sheffield Greens have always campaigned for the rights of Palestinian people and are proud members of the Sheffield Palestine Coalition against Israeli Apartheid. As the world’s attention has turned to Iran, the Genocide continues in Gaza and settlers, backed by the Israeli regime, continue to murder and steal Palestinian land in the West Bank. Our Government continues to send weapons to Israel, clamp down on protests, and imprison activists who take direct action to stop the genocide or even express support for direct action.

At our Autumn conference, the Green Party will discuss a vitally important motion that will change the nature of political debate about Israel/Palestine in this country. It already has over 700 supporters on the member’s website, and many organisations outside the party are backing it, including the local group “Sheffield Jews Against Israeli Apartheid”. The “Zionism is Racism” motion sets out the strongest position possible on Palestinian rights, while firmly opposing the weaponisation of antisemitism allegations to silence legitimate criticism of Israel. It also advocates for the de-proscription of P@lestine Action and the release of all political prisoners that the state has targeted in relation to non-violent direct action in solidarity with the Palestinian people. My motion below is co-seconded by a diverse group of Sheffield Green Party members, including people from Muslim, Jewish, Christian, and no-faith backgrounds. 

Motion

Sheffield Green Party endorses the Zionism is Racism motion and urges members to support and vote for it at conference on 2nd-4th October.

The full text of the Zionism is Racism motion is on the members’ website (Motion A3) and is reprinted below.

Zionism is Racism

Motion Type

Type:

E Motion (Policy)

Synopsis

This motion defines Zionism, recognises its continued harm to Palestinians, and
seeks to clarify that the Green Party is opposed to Zionism. It further affirms
the right to self-determination and liberation of the Palestinian people and
supports the establishment of a single democratic Palestinian State in all of
historic Palestine.

Motion text

Zionism is a political ideology which called for the creation – and, now it
exists, the continuity – of an ethnonationalist Jewish State in historic
Palestine to the exclusion and/or domination of the non-Jewish population. The
real, material manifestation of Zionism has been the historic and ongoing
dehumanisation, displacement, dispossession, disenfranchisement and destruction of Palestinians. This is based upon European settler-colonial systems of domination and oppression, which has also created racial hierarchies between
Jews of different ethnicities in Palestine.

The practice of Zionist ideology, promoting ethnonationalism, privileges one
ethnic group on the basis of the subjugation of others. Zionism is Israel’s
foundational ideology.

Zionism has created and seeks to maintain — and where possible—expand an
apartheid regime between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, designed to cement the supremacy of one group, Jews, over another, Palestinians. As such,
Zionism is racist.

This motion is aimed at the political ideology and practice of Zionism, as
defined, and not at the religious or ethnic background of those who may identify
as Zionists. Not all Jews are Zionists and not all Zionists are Jews.

Rejecting Zionism and supporting the liberation of the Palestinian people is not
discriminatory against Jewish people. Nor is it discriminatory to support the
establishment of a single democratic Palestinian State between the Jordan river
and the Mediterranean Sea with equal rights for all.

Zionism is fundamentally incompatible with anti-racist principles, equality and
justice.

CONFERENCE RESOLVES THAT:

1. The Green Party declares itself to be an anti-Zionist party.

2. The Green Party rejects attempts to normalise the racist subjugation and
oppression of Palestinians; to equate anti-Zionism with antisemitism; to deny or
minimise Palestinian human rights; to create hierarchies of racism; and to
normalise or attempt to justify apartheid, ethnic cleansing or genocide. We
affirm that definitions of anti-Jewish discrimination should not equate Jewish
identity with Zionist ideology or political practice. As with any ethnicity or
faith group, no single political ideology should be ascribed to an entire
people.

3. Following from Motion E05, which affirmed that Israel is an apartheid State
committing genocide, and Motion E07 supporting reparations and accountability,
the Green Party supports the establishment of a single democratic Palestinian
State in all of historic Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital, equal rights
for all, and the right of return for Palestinians and their descendants.

4. The Green Party affirms the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to self-
determination, including the right of the Palestinian people to resistance and
liberation from Israeli occupation, domination and subjugation, and acknowledges
that the struggle to achieve that liberation by all available means under
international law is legitimate.

5. The Green Party heeds the call from Palestinian civil society to impose broad
boycotts and implement divestment initiatives against Israel similar to those
applied to South Africa in the apartheid era, and calls upon the United Kingdom
Government to impose full embargoes and sanctions against Israel.

6. The Green Party calls for the release of all Palestinian prisoners of
conscience (including Marwan Barghouti), the end of the use of administrative
detention of Palestinians by Israel, and the treatment of Palestinian combatants
in accordance with international humanitarian law, including in particular those
provisions dealing with prisoners of war in the First Additional Protocol of the
1977 amendments to the Four Genevan Conventions of 1949 relating to the
Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts.

7. The Green Party calls for the removal of P@lestine Action from the list of
proscribed organisations in Schedule 2 to the Terrorism Act 2000 (i.e. de-
proscription).

8. The Green Party calls for the release of all prisoners detained for non-
violent direct action in support of Palestinian rights and the end of the
genocide, apartheid and the illegal occupation of Palestine and supports the
demands of the Prisoners for Palestine 4

ACTIONS FOR THE PARTY TO TAKE:

The Green Party adopts the following action points:

• This motion will be incorporated into the Green Party’s Record of Policy
  Statements as appropriate and promoted in accordance with our rules and
  procedures.
• Zionism, as defined above, will be treated as any other form of racism,
  and this motion will be implemented by the Anti-Racism Policy Working
  Group as appropriate and in accordance with its ordinary practice.
• The positions on international policy within this motion will be
  implemented by the International Policy Working Group as appropriate and
  in accordance with its ordinary practice.

We affirm our commitment to explicitly opposing Zionism in our internal and
external communications going forward.

The UK and Welsh Parliaments, the London and Mayoral Assemblies, and Local
Councils and Local Authorities must exercise their authority to end the
genocide, occupation and apartheid. Elected Green representatives will continue
to put pressure on all and any relevant bodies to achieve these goals. This
motion ensures our positions comply with international law, equity, and our
commitment to justice and human rights.

MPs, London and Mayoral Assembly Members, Councillors, and prospective Members
of the Senedd should take measures at their respective chambers to create local,
sub-national, and national action for Palestine, ending any investments in
Israel; demanding peace and accountability, and an end to the egregious
violations of international humanitarian law and the genocide conventions, and
an immediate move towards accountability, reparations, and justice for the
Palestinian people.

There was a good discussion on this recently, organised by Greens for Palestine.

Do watch the whole video, but if you are pressed for time fast forward to Lubna’s speech at 24 minutes in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiZi6uBttUs

I have heard some people say, “but there are different types of Zionism, what about Zionists that don’t support Apartheid or the Genocide?” It is impossible to maintain Zionism as defined in the motion as “a political ideology which called for the creation – and, now it exists, the continuity – of an ethnonationalist Jewish State in historic
Palestine to the exclusion and/or domination of the non-Jewish population” without violence, discrimination and oppression. It may be true that there are, or were, different types of Zionism, but this is not relevant as the motion provides a clear definition. 

Christian Zionism is very much part of the problem. Some Christian groups like the Amos Trust do an amazing job supporting Palestinians. But some Fundamentalist and Conservative Christians, especially in the United States, view the Jewish state as an instrument for fulfilling their own apocalyptic prophecy.   All Zionists believe in the right to a Jewish state in Palestine, and this is the heart of the problem. The same argument was used against the abolition of slavery. “Some slave owners are good and don’t mistreat their slaves”, they would argue. But of course, it was the denial of people’s freedom that was the core of the problem. Zionism denies the freedom of the Palestinians.

I have heard some people say this motion is antisemitic. Nothing could be further from the truth. The motion is backed by many Jewish groups. Being anti-zionist is often wrongly conflated with being antisemitic. Professor David Miller was sacked by Bristol University for his anti-zionist views. Recently, he won his tribunal against them, confirming that anti-zionism is a protected belief in this country under the Equality Act.

I have also heard some people say this motion will be divisive. Unfortunately the division existed before the motion. Many good Green Party candidates have been suspended on the grounds of anti-semitism, when in fact they are nothing of the sort. Also good people have been expelled from the party for anti semitism, when they are not racist, simply anti-zionist.

The Green Party must never be afraid to do what is right. That may at times cause division, as it did when we proudly backed the rights of trans people. This led to some expulsions and resignations from a small minority that disagreed, but it also led to growth in the party as many LGBTQIA+ people flocked to join us. No one likes conflict within the party, but sometimes it has to happen. If some Zionists leave as a result, so be it. I’m sure many more supporters of the Palestinian people will join.

Some say the motion is inconsequential. I strongly beg to differ! The motion puts us in the forefront of the Palestine Solidarity movement, offering a just solution to the conflict. Just like the end of Apartheid in South Africa, a single state solution is the best hope for the Middle East. The call for broad boycotts and divestment from Israel, of the sort that was so successful against Apartheid South Africa, is much needed and can be promoted by Green Party Councillors throughout the country. We must stand up for those convicted of terrorism for taking part in Non-Violent Direct Action, and for those arrested simply for displaying a message on a piece of card.

Please join me in supporting this motion and making the Green Party an anti-Zionist Party.

Have you at any time... rewritten the settler narrative?
Foundational narratives facing the murder board

“When historians talk about reframing a traditional narrative, we don’t mean erasing it...We mean adding the evidence, the voices, the objects, that earlier tellings left out, so that more Americans can see themselves reflected in the national story.” >>
https://apnews.com/article/smithsonian-history-museum-trump-white-house-criticism-99fff0e5911b4dc01905713d19a73e32

Rewriting American History: Examining the Smithsonian's Efforts to Reshape the Past
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=961Mclohmi8&t=2099s

#SettlerSociety #ethnonationalism #AmericanDream #FoundationalNarratives #ReshapeThePast #history #museum #culture #diversity #examination #MurderBoard #zeitgeist

Have you at any time... rewritten the settler narrative?
Foundational narratives facing the murder board

“When historians talk about reframing a traditional narrative, we don’t mean erasing it...We mean adding the evidence, the voices, the objects, that earlier tellings left out, so that more Americans can see themselves reflected in the national story.” >>
https://apnews.com/article/smithsonian-history-museum-trump-white-house-criticism-99fff0e5911b4dc01905713d19a73e32

Rewriting American History: Examining the Smithsonian's Efforts to Reshape the Past
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=961Mclohmi8&t=2099s

#SettlerSociety #ethnonationalism #AmericanDream #FoundationalNarratives #ReshapeThePast #history #museum #culture #diversity #examination #MurderBoard #zeitgeist

Have you at any time... rewritten the settler narrative?
Foundational narratives facing the murder board

“When historians talk about reframing a traditional narrative, we don’t mean erasing it...We mean adding the evidence, the voices, the objects, that earlier tellings left out, so that more Americans can see themselves reflected in the national story.” >>
https://apnews.com/article/smithsonian-history-museum-trump-white-house-criticism-99fff0e5911b4dc01905713d19a73e32

Rewriting American History: Examining the Smithsonian's Efforts to Reshape the Past
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=961Mclohmi8&t=2099s

#SettlerSociety #ethnonationalism #AmericanDream #FoundationalNarratives #ReshapeThePast #history #museum #culture #diversity #examination #MurderBoard #zeitgeist

Have you at any time... rewritten the settler narrative?
Foundational narratives facing the murder board

“When historians talk about reframing a traditional narrative, we don’t mean erasing it...We mean adding the evidence, the voices, the objects, that earlier tellings left out, so that more Americans can see themselves reflected in the national story.” >>
https://apnews.com/article/smithsonian-history-museum-trump-white-house-criticism-99fff0e5911b4dc01905713d19a73e32

Rewriting American History: Examining the Smithsonian's Efforts to Reshape the Past
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=961Mclohmi8&t=2099s

#SettlerSociety #ethnonationalism #AmericanDream #FoundationalNarratives #ReshapeThePast #history #museum #culture #diversity #examination #MurderBoard #zeitgeist

Have you at any time... rewritten the settler narrative?
Foundational narratives facing the murder board

“When historians talk about reframing a traditional narrative, we don’t mean erasing it...We mean adding the evidence, the voices, the objects, that earlier tellings left out, so that more Americans can see themselves reflected in the national story.” >>
https://apnews.com/article/smithsonian-history-museum-trump-white-house-criticism-99fff0e5911b4dc01905713d19a73e32

Rewriting American History: Examining the Smithsonian's Efforts to Reshape the Past
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=961Mclohmi8&t=2099s

#SettlerSociety #ethnonationalism #AmericanDream #FoundationalNarratives #ReshapeThePast #history #museum #culture #diversity #examination #MurderBoard #zeitgeist

Not tryna be #woke or nothin' but like that's like #racist right?

Edit: oh and ofcourse they are Christians

#ethnonationalism #nationalism #rightwing #ukpol

Not tryna be #woke or nothin' but like that's like #racist right?

Edit: oh and ofcourse they are Christians

#ethnonationalism #nationalism #rightwing #ukpol

Not tryna be #woke or nothin' but like that's like #racist right?

Edit: oh and ofcourse they are Christians

#ethnonationalism #nationalism #rightwing #ukpol

Not tryna be #woke or nothin' but like that's like #racist right?

Edit: oh and ofcourse they are Christians

#ethnonationalism #nationalism #rightwing #ukpol

Not tryna be #woke or nothin' but like that's like #racist right?

Edit: oh and ofcourse they are Christians

#ethnonationalism #nationalism #rightwing #ukpol

The #Land Lord's Game

Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above
Don't fence me in
Let me ride through the wide open country that I love
Don't fence me in...

* Australia's housing market >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-01/common-wealth-house-prices-land-resource-taxation/106852936

* Rentierism
describes an economic or political system where individuals, corporations, or even governments generate wealth by controlling and extracting "rents" from scarce assets, rather than by creating new products or services

* Financialisation
"is the process by which financial markets, institutions, and motives gain increasing influence over the broader economy, society, and corporate decision-making. It represents a shift from an industrial economy—where profits are generated primarily by producing goods and services—toward one driven by financial engineering, speculation, and wealth.

* Expansionism
Go West - Westward movement refers to the historic 19th-century migration of American settlers to the Pacific coast. Driven by "Manifest Destiny". Colonialism is the physical practice of establishing settlements and taking direct political control over a foreign territory,

* Nazis moving into foreign territories (eastern Europe) looking for "Living space" (Lebensraum)

* 'Boundaries bursting" #globalisation - Leaving the "safe operating space" of planet Earth.

Don't fence me in | Bing Crosby & Te Andrew Sisters (Lyrics) >>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G84dJHgLE-4
#land #ThePropertyGame #CommonWealth #housing #AffordableHousing #rentierism #inequality #extractivism #mining #housing #monopoly #speculation #wealth #expansionism #WideOpenSpaces #Europeancolonisation #SettlerSociety #PlantetarianBoundaries #ethnonationalism #xenophobia #IndigenousPeoples

The #Land Lord's Game

Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above
Don't fence me in
Let me ride through the wide open country that I love
Don't fence me in...

* Australia's housing market >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-01/common-wealth-house-prices-land-resource-taxation/106852936

* Rentierism
describes an economic or political system where individuals, corporations, or even governments generate wealth by controlling and extracting "rents" from scarce assets, rather than by creating new products or services

* Financialisation
"is the process by which financial markets, institutions, and motives gain increasing influence over the broader economy, society, and corporate decision-making. It represents a shift from an industrial economy—where profits are generated primarily by producing goods and services—toward one driven by financial engineering, speculation, and wealth.

* Expansionism
Go West - Westward movement refers to the historic 19th-century migration of American settlers to the Pacific coast. Driven by "Manifest Destiny". Colonialism is the physical practice of establishing settlements and taking direct political control over a foreign territory,

* Nazis moving into foreign territories (eastern Europe) looking for "Living space" (Lebensraum)

* 'Boundaries bursting" #globalisation - Leaving the "safe operating space" of planet Earth.

Don't fence me in | Bing Crosby & Te Andrew Sisters (Lyrics) >>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G84dJHgLE-4
#land #ThePropertyGame #CommonWealth #housing #AffordableHousing #rentierism #inequality #extractivism #mining #housing #monopoly #speculation #wealth #expansionism #WideOpenSpaces #Europeancolonisation #SettlerSociety #PlantetarianBoundaries #ethnonationalism #xenophobia #IndigenousPeoples

The #Land Lord's Game

Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above
Don't fence me in
Let me ride through the wide open country that I love
Don't fence me in...

* Australia's housing market >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-01/common-wealth-house-prices-land-resource-taxation/106852936

* Rentierism
describes an economic or political system where individuals, corporations, or even governments generate wealth by controlling and extracting "rents" from scarce assets, rather than by creating new products or services

* Financialisation
"is the process by which financial markets, institutions, and motives gain increasing influence over the broader economy, society, and corporate decision-making. It represents a shift from an industrial economy—where profits are generated primarily by producing goods and services—toward one driven by financial engineering, speculation, and wealth.

* Expansionism
Go West - Westward movement refers to the historic 19th-century migration of American settlers to the Pacific coast. Driven by "Manifest Destiny". Colonialism is the physical practice of establishing settlements and taking direct political control over a foreign territory,

* Nazis moving into foreign territories (eastern Europe) looking for "Living space" (Lebensraum)

* 'Boundaries bursting" #globalisation - Leaving the "safe operating space" of planet Earth.

Don't fence me in | Bing Crosby & Te Andrew Sisters (Lyrics) >>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G84dJHgLE-4
#land #ThePropertyGame #CommonWealth #housing #AffordableHousing #rentierism #inequality #extractivism #mining #housing #monopoly #speculation #wealth #expansionism #WideOpenSpaces #Europeancolonisation #SettlerSociety #PlantetarianBoundaries #ethnonationalism #xenophobia #IndigenousPeoples

The #Land Lord's Game

Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above
Don't fence me in
Let me ride through the wide open country that I love
Don't fence me in...

* Australia's housing market >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-01/common-wealth-house-prices-land-resource-taxation/106852936

* Rentierism
describes an economic or political system where individuals, corporations, or even governments generate wealth by controlling and extracting "rents" from scarce assets, rather than by creating new products or services

* Financialisation
"is the process by which financial markets, institutions, and motives gain increasing influence over the broader economy, society, and corporate decision-making. It represents a shift from an industrial economy—where profits are generated primarily by producing goods and services—toward one driven by financial engineering, speculation, and wealth.

* Expansionism
Go West - Westward movement refers to the historic 19th-century migration of American settlers to the Pacific coast. Driven by "Manifest Destiny". Colonialism is the physical practice of establishing settlements and taking direct political control over a foreign territory,

* Nazis moving into foreign territories (eastern Europe) looking for "Living space" (Lebensraum)

* 'Boundaries bursting" #globalisation - Leaving the "safe operating space" of planet Earth.

Don't fence me in | Bing Crosby & Te Andrew Sisters (Lyrics) >>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G84dJHgLE-4
#land #ThePropertyGame #CommonWealth #housing #AffordableHousing #rentierism #inequality #extractivism #mining #housing #monopoly #speculation #wealth #expansionism #WideOpenSpaces #Europeancolonisation #SettlerSociety #PlantetarianBoundaries #ethnonationalism #xenophobia #IndigenousPeoples

The #Land Lord's Game

Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above
Don't fence me in
Let me ride through the wide open country that I love
Don't fence me in...

* Australia's housing market >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-01/common-wealth-house-prices-land-resource-taxation/106852936

* Rentierism
describes an economic or political system where individuals, corporations, or even governments generate wealth by controlling and extracting "rents" from scarce assets, rather than by creating new products or services

* Financialisation
"is the process by which financial markets, institutions, and motives gain increasing influence over the broader economy, society, and corporate decision-making. It represents a shift from an industrial economy—where profits are generated primarily by producing goods and services—toward one driven by financial engineering, speculation, and wealth.

* Expansionism
Go West - Westward movement refers to the historic 19th-century migration of American settlers to the Pacific coast. Driven by "Manifest Destiny". Colonialism is the physical practice of establishing settlements and taking direct political control over a foreign territory,

* Nazis moving into foreign territories (eastern Europe) looking for "Living space" (Lebensraum)

* 'Boundaries bursting" #globalisation - Leaving the "safe operating space" of planet Earth.

Don't fence me in | Bing Crosby & Te Andrew Sisters (Lyrics) >>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G84dJHgLE-4
#land #ThePropertyGame #CommonWealth #housing #AffordableHousing #rentierism #inequality #extractivism #mining #housing #monopoly #speculation #wealth #expansionism #WideOpenSpaces #Europeancolonisation #SettlerSociety #PlantetarianBoundaries #ethnonationalism #xenophobia #IndigenousPeoples

Wait until the editors over at JNS actually read a history book some day. :fozzie_wocka_wocka:

"Today, the #American covenant is under serious pressure from two directions simultaneously.

The left has been replacing the covenant’s universal terms with group identity. The relevant question, in this framework, is not what you accept but what you are: your #race, your #gender and your position in a hierarchy of historical grievance. From the right, #ethnonationalism defines the nation by #ancestry and #culture rather than by shared obligation. In both models, the covenant is conditional, depending on which group you belong to.

Both abandon America’s founding logic. Both make #Jewish belonging in #America contingent in ways that Washington explicitly said it never could be."

https://www.jns.org/opinion/eldad-tzioni/what-george-washington-really-said-to-the-jews-of-newport

Wait until the editors over at JNS actually read a history book some day. :fozzie_wocka_wocka:

"Today, the #American covenant is under serious pressure from two directions simultaneously.

The left has been replacing the covenant’s universal terms with group identity. The relevant question, in this framework, is not what you accept but what you are: your #race, your #gender and your position in a hierarchy of historical grievance. From the right, #ethnonationalism defines the nation by #ancestry and #culture rather than by shared obligation. In both models, the covenant is conditional, depending on which group you belong to.

Both abandon America’s founding logic. Both make #Jewish belonging in #America contingent in ways that Washington explicitly said it never could be."

https://www.jns.org/opinion/eldad-tzioni/what-george-washington-really-said-to-the-jews-of-newport

Wait until the editors over at JNS actually read a history book some day. :fozzie_wocka_wocka:

"Today, the #American covenant is under serious pressure from two directions simultaneously.

The left has been replacing the covenant’s universal terms with group identity. The relevant question, in this framework, is not what you accept but what you are: your #race, your #gender and your position in a hierarchy of historical grievance. From the right, #ethnonationalism defines the nation by #ancestry and #culture rather than by shared obligation. In both models, the covenant is conditional, depending on which group you belong to.

Both abandon America’s founding logic. Both make #Jewish belonging in #America contingent in ways that Washington explicitly said it never could be."

https://www.jns.org/opinion/eldad-tzioni/what-george-washington-really-said-to-the-jews-of-newport

Wait until the editors over at JNS actually read a history book some day. :fozzie_wocka_wocka:

"Today, the #American covenant is under serious pressure from two directions simultaneously.

The left has been replacing the covenant’s universal terms with group identity. The relevant question, in this framework, is not what you accept but what you are: your #race, your #gender and your position in a hierarchy of historical grievance. From the right, #ethnonationalism defines the nation by #ancestry and #culture rather than by shared obligation. In both models, the covenant is conditional, depending on which group you belong to.

Both abandon America’s founding logic. Both make #Jewish belonging in #America contingent in ways that Washington explicitly said it never could be."

https://www.jns.org/opinion/eldad-tzioni/what-george-washington-really-said-to-the-jews-of-newport

Wait until the editors over at JNS actually read a history book some day. :fozzie_wocka_wocka:

"Today, the #American covenant is under serious pressure from two directions simultaneously.

The left has been replacing the covenant’s universal terms with group identity. The relevant question, in this framework, is not what you accept but what you are: your #race, your #gender and your position in a hierarchy of historical grievance. From the right, #ethnonationalism defines the nation by #ancestry and #culture rather than by shared obligation. In both models, the covenant is conditional, depending on which group you belong to.

Both abandon America’s founding logic. Both make #Jewish belonging in #America contingent in ways that Washington explicitly said it never could be."

https://www.jns.org/opinion/eldad-tzioni/what-george-washington-really-said-to-the-jews-of-newport

https://www.europesays.com/iran/168680/ Israel: What Went Wrong? Omer Bartov on Zionism, Genocide Warnings and the Crisis of Israeli Democracy #constitution #EthnoNationalism #GazaWar #genocide #GenocideScholar #Holocaust #Israel #IsraeliDemocracy #Nakba #netanyahu #NewYorkTimes #OmerBartov #palestinians #SettlerColonialism #Zionism

#frg #usa #israel #palestine : #zionism / #ethnonationalism / #supremacy / #greaterisrael / #essay

„Criticism of the #ideology underpinning Israel's foundation remains contentious in Germany. In the US, however, a significant shift is taking place. The Zionist consensus within the Jewish community is fracturing and debate is opening up.“

https://qantara.de/en/article/israel-and-palestine-how-talk-about-zionism

#frg #usa #israel #palestine : #zionism / #ethnonationalism / #supremacy / #greaterisrael / #essay

„Criticism of the #ideology underpinning Israel's foundation remains contentious in Germany. In the US, however, a significant shift is taking place. The Zionist consensus within the Jewish community is fracturing and debate is opening up.“

https://qantara.de/en/article/israel-and-palestine-how-talk-about-zionism

#frg #usa #israel #palestine : #zionism / #ethnonationalism / #supremacy / #greaterisrael / #essay

„Criticism of the #ideology underpinning Israel's foundation remains contentious in Germany. In the US, however, a significant shift is taking place. The Zionist consensus within the Jewish community is fracturing and debate is opening up.“

https://qantara.de/en/article/israel-and-palestine-how-talk-about-zionism

"His new book, #Israel: What Went #Wrong?, is an attempt to explain that indifference. The book, which was published on Tuesday, is a detailed account of how Israel was transformed from a hopeful nation that in its founding document promised “complete equality of social and political rights to all its citizens irrespective of religion, race or sex” into one intent on what he bluntly terms “settler colonialism and #ethnonationalism”."
#genocide
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/21/omer-bartov-israel-zionism-genocide

"His new book, #Israel: What Went #Wrong?, is an attempt to explain that indifference. The book, which was published on Tuesday, is a detailed account of how Israel was transformed from a hopeful nation that in its founding document promised “complete equality of social and political rights to all its citizens irrespective of religion, race or sex” into one intent on what he bluntly terms “settler colonialism and #ethnonationalism”."
#genocide
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/21/omer-bartov-israel-zionism-genocide

"His new book, #Israel: What Went #Wrong?, is an attempt to explain that indifference. The book, which was published on Tuesday, is a detailed account of how Israel was transformed from a hopeful nation that in its founding document promised “complete equality of social and political rights to all its citizens irrespective of religion, race or sex” into one intent on what he bluntly terms “settler colonialism and #ethnonationalism”."
#genocide
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/21/omer-bartov-israel-zionism-genocide

"His new book, #Israel: What Went #Wrong?, is an attempt to explain that indifference. The book, which was published on Tuesday, is a detailed account of how Israel was transformed from a hopeful nation that in its founding document promised “complete equality of social and political rights to all its citizens irrespective of religion, race or sex” into one intent on what he bluntly terms “settler colonialism and #ethnonationalism”."
#genocide
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/21/omer-bartov-israel-zionism-genocide

"His new book, #Israel: What Went #Wrong?, is an attempt to explain that indifference. The book, which was published on Tuesday, is a detailed account of how Israel was transformed from a hopeful nation that in its founding document promised “complete equality of social and political rights to all its citizens irrespective of religion, race or sex” into one intent on what he bluntly terms “settler colonialism and #ethnonationalism”."
#genocide
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/21/omer-bartov-israel-zionism-genocide

“So it’s clear that the major source of affinity between #MAGA, #Fidesz and #Putinism is something more raw and atavistic: a shared commitment to #racism, #ethnonationalism, and social #illiberalism.”

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/post/3mibnemke4s24

“So it’s clear that the major source of affinity between #MAGA, #Fidesz and #Putinism is something more raw and atavistic: a shared commitment to #racism, #ethnonationalism, and social #illiberalism.”

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/post/3mibnemke4s24

“So it’s clear that the major source of affinity between #MAGA, #Fidesz and #Putinism is something more raw and atavistic: a shared commitment to #racism, #ethnonationalism, and social #illiberalism.”

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/post/3mibnemke4s24

Illumination in dark times
A genealogy of modern Western selfhood and a post-Western world

"Smith ... outlines a genealogy of modern Western selfhood: a radically individual, hypermasculine character that was formed during the rapid nineteenth-century expansion of the white man’s world. “Bold, conquering, and altogether assertive,” it was “dedicated to action,” hostile to reflection, indifferent to community and the environment, and guilty of possessing, Smith writes, an “undeveloped heart,” a term borrowed from E. M. Forster’s assessment of the British elite." "

" “We must alter our very relations with the world around us.” This means giving up the exalted and exaggerated idea of the West that boosts a masculinist self-image but severely constricts thought and feeling. “We should welcome our era’s uncertainties,...the not-knowing of how the post-Western story will come out.” Smith’s final warning—that “we will not survive the Western notion of the individual much longer”—should resonate today, as nineteenth-century individualism reasserts itself in the degraded Nietzscheanism of Peter Thiel and Stephen Miller." >>

* Mishra, P. (2026, April). "The Authority of Thought". Harper's Magazine.
https://harpers.org/archive/2026/04/the-authority-of-thought-pankaj-mishra/

* Somebody Else's Century: East and West in a Post-Western World by Patrick Smith. 2010 >>
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/169395/somebody-elses-century-by-patrick-smith/
#TheWest #WhiteSupremacy #masculinity #ImpulseControl #EthnoNationalism #WesternCivilization #AngloAmerican #parochialism #individualism #subjectivity #SettlerSociety #Culture #RacialInequality #war #EastWest #PostWesternWorld #DarkTimes #illumination #narrative #environment

Image: Double Bay War Memorial, Steyne Park, Sydney

Illumination in dark times
A genealogy of modern Western selfhood and a post-Western world

"Smith ... outlines a genealogy of modern Western selfhood: a radically individual, hypermasculine character that was formed during the rapid nineteenth-century expansion of the white man’s world. “Bold, conquering, and altogether assertive,” it was “dedicated to action,” hostile to reflection, indifferent to community and the environment, and guilty of possessing, Smith writes, an “undeveloped heart,” a term borrowed from E. M. Forster’s assessment of the British elite." "

" “We must alter our very relations with the world around us.” This means giving up the exalted and exaggerated idea of the West that boosts a masculinist self-image but severely constricts thought and feeling. “We should welcome our era’s uncertainties,...the not-knowing of how the post-Western story will come out.” Smith’s final warning—that “we will not survive the Western notion of the individual much longer”—should resonate today, as nineteenth-century individualism reasserts itself in the degraded Nietzscheanism of Peter Thiel and Stephen Miller." >>

* Mishra, P. (2026, April). "The Authority of Thought". Harper's Magazine.
https://harpers.org/archive/2026/04/the-authority-of-thought-pankaj-mishra/

* Somebody Else's Century: East and West in a Post-Western World by Patrick Smith. 2010 >>
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/169395/somebody-elses-century-by-patrick-smith/
#TheWest #WhiteSupremacy #masculinity #ImpulseControl #EthnoNationalism #WesternCivilization #AngloAmerican #parochialism #individualism #subjectivity #SettlerSociety #Culture #RacialInequality #war #EastWest #PostWesternWorld #DarkTimes #illumination #narrative #environment

Image: Double Bay War Memorial, Steyne Park, Sydney

Illumination in dark times
A genealogy of modern Western selfhood and a post-Western world

"Smith ... outlines a genealogy of modern Western selfhood: a radically individual, hypermasculine character that was formed during the rapid nineteenth-century expansion of the white man’s world. “Bold, conquering, and altogether assertive,” it was “dedicated to action,” hostile to reflection, indifferent to community and the environment, and guilty of possessing, Smith writes, an “undeveloped heart,” a term borrowed from E. M. Forster’s assessment of the British elite." "

" “We must alter our very relations with the world around us.” This means giving up the exalted and exaggerated idea of the West that boosts a masculinist self-image but severely constricts thought and feeling. “We should welcome our era’s uncertainties,...the not-knowing of how the post-Western story will come out.” Smith’s final warning—that “we will not survive the Western notion of the individual much longer”—should resonate today, as nineteenth-century individualism reasserts itself in the degraded Nietzscheanism of Peter Thiel and Stephen Miller." >>

* Mishra, P. (2026, April). "The Authority of Thought". Harper's Magazine.
https://harpers.org/archive/2026/04/the-authority-of-thought-pankaj-mishra/

* Somebody Else's Century: East and West in a Post-Western World by Patrick Smith. 2010 >>
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/169395/somebody-elses-century-by-patrick-smith/
#TheWest #WhiteSupremacy #masculinity #ImpulseControl #EthnoNationalism #WesternCivilization #AngloAmerican #parochialism #individualism #subjectivity #SettlerSociety #Culture #RacialInequality #war #EastWest #PostWesternWorld #DarkTimes #illumination #narrative #environment

Image: Double Bay War Memorial, Steyne Park, Sydney

Illumination in dark times
A genealogy of modern Western selfhood and a post-Western world

"Smith ... outlines a genealogy of modern Western selfhood: a radically individual, hypermasculine character that was formed during the rapid nineteenth-century expansion of the white man’s world. “Bold, conquering, and altogether assertive,” it was “dedicated to action,” hostile to reflection, indifferent to community and the environment, and guilty of possessing, Smith writes, an “undeveloped heart,” a term borrowed from E. M. Forster’s assessment of the British elite." "

" “We must alter our very relations with the world around us.” This means giving up the exalted and exaggerated idea of the West that boosts a masculinist self-image but severely constricts thought and feeling. “We should welcome our era’s uncertainties,...the not-knowing of how the post-Western story will come out.” Smith’s final warning—that “we will not survive the Western notion of the individual much longer”—should resonate today, as nineteenth-century individualism reasserts itself in the degraded Nietzscheanism of Peter Thiel and Stephen Miller." >>

* Mishra, P. (2026, April). "The Authority of Thought". Harper's Magazine.
https://harpers.org/archive/2026/04/the-authority-of-thought-pankaj-mishra/

* Somebody Else's Century: East and West in a Post-Western World by Patrick Smith. 2010 >>
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/169395/somebody-elses-century-by-patrick-smith/
#TheWest #WhiteSupremacy #masculinity #ImpulseControl #EthnoNationalism #WesternCivilization #AngloAmerican #parochialism #individualism #subjectivity #SettlerSociety #Culture #RacialInequality #war #EastWest #PostWesternWorld #DarkTimes #illumination #narrative #environment

Image: Double Bay War Memorial, Steyne Park, Sydney

Illumination in dark times
A genealogy of modern Western selfhood and a post-Western world

"Smith ... outlines a genealogy of modern Western selfhood: a radically individual, hypermasculine character that was formed during the rapid nineteenth-century expansion of the white man’s world. “Bold, conquering, and altogether assertive,” it was “dedicated to action,” hostile to reflection, indifferent to community and the environment, and guilty of possessing, Smith writes, an “undeveloped heart,” a term borrowed from E. M. Forster’s assessment of the British elite." "

" “We must alter our very relations with the world around us.” This means giving up the exalted and exaggerated idea of the West that boosts a masculinist self-image but severely constricts thought and feeling. “We should welcome our era’s uncertainties,...the not-knowing of how the post-Western story will come out.” Smith’s final warning—that “we will not survive the Western notion of the individual much longer”—should resonate today, as nineteenth-century individualism reasserts itself in the degraded Nietzscheanism of Peter Thiel and Stephen Miller." >>

* Mishra, P. (2026, April). "The Authority of Thought". Harper's Magazine.
https://harpers.org/archive/2026/04/the-authority-of-thought-pankaj-mishra/

* Somebody Else's Century: East and West in a Post-Western World by Patrick Smith. 2010 >>
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/169395/somebody-elses-century-by-patrick-smith/
#TheWest #WhiteSupremacy #masculinity #ImpulseControl #EthnoNationalism #WesternCivilization #AngloAmerican #parochialism #individualism #subjectivity #SettlerSociety #Culture #RacialInequality #war #EastWest #PostWesternWorld #DarkTimes #illumination #narrative #environment

Image: Double Bay War Memorial, Steyne Park, Sydney

Social cohesion and gritted-teeth tolerance

"In 2022, for the first time in decades, the government commissioned a review of multiculturalism, Towards Fairness. It found Australia had muddled on, but squandered its world-leading status and recommended the government create a minister, a permanent commission and department for multiculturalism. Labor MP Dr Anne Aly was appointed multicultural affairs minister in 2025."

She delivered a powerful speech last November:

"Aly declared it was time to end “the conditional form of multiculturalism, that kind of gritted-teeth tolerance that,

'You are welcome here as long as your food tastes good,

your celebrations are colourful, and

your music is present to the ears.’"

"But any questioning, any speaking out, any disruptive participation in any practice of citizenship will not be tolerated. Instead, acts of citizenship afforded to the broader community are viewed as acts of defiance when performed by the other and are met with cries of, ‘Go back to where you came from,’ and ‘Love Australia or leave it.’ " >>
https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2026/mar/23/social-cohesion-meaning-has-lost-feelgood-vibe

Full speech: Reimagining Multiculturalism in Australia, The Hon Dr Anne Aly MP, Minister for Small Business, Minister for International Development, and Minister for Multicultural Affairs 2025 >>
https://ministers.treasury.gov.au/ministers/anne-aly-2025

#SocialCohesion #ethnonationalism #Anglosphere #SettlerSociety #mainstream #belonging #diversity #IndigenousPeoples #CALD #hate #racism #silencing #culture #entertainment #SongAndDance #ScarilyDiverse #representation #participation #Australia #culture

Social cohesion and gritted-teeth tolerance

"In 2022, for the first time in decades, the government commissioned a review of multiculturalism, Towards Fairness. It found Australia had muddled on, but squandered its world-leading status and recommended the government create a minister, a permanent commission and department for multiculturalism. Labor MP Dr Anne Aly was appointed multicultural affairs minister in 2025."

She delivered a powerful speech last November:

"Aly declared it was time to end “the conditional form of multiculturalism, that kind of gritted-teeth tolerance that,

'You are welcome here as long as your food tastes good,

your celebrations are colourful, and

your music is present to the ears.’"

"But any questioning, any speaking out, any disruptive participation in any practice of citizenship will not be tolerated. Instead, acts of citizenship afforded to the broader community are viewed as acts of defiance when performed by the other and are met with cries of, ‘Go back to where you came from,’ and ‘Love Australia or leave it.’ " >>
https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2026/mar/23/social-cohesion-meaning-has-lost-feelgood-vibe

Full speech: Reimagining Multiculturalism in Australia, The Hon Dr Anne Aly MP, Minister for Small Business, Minister for International Development, and Minister for Multicultural Affairs 2025 >>
https://ministers.treasury.gov.au/ministers/anne-aly-2025

#SocialCohesion #ethnonationalism #Anglosphere #SettlerSociety #mainstream #belonging #diversity #IndigenousPeoples #CALD #hate #racism #silencing #culture #entertainment #SongAndDance #ScarilyDiverse #representation #participation #Australia #culture

Social cohesion and gritted-teeth tolerance

"In 2022, for the first time in decades, the government commissioned a review of multiculturalism, Towards Fairness. It found Australia had muddled on, but squandered its world-leading status and recommended the government create a minister, a permanent commission and department for multiculturalism. Labor MP Dr Anne Aly was appointed multicultural affairs minister in 2025."

She delivered a powerful speech last November:

"Aly declared it was time to end “the conditional form of multiculturalism, that kind of gritted-teeth tolerance that,

'You are welcome here as long as your food tastes good,

your celebrations are colourful, and

your music is present to the ears.’"

"But any questioning, any speaking out, any disruptive participation in any practice of citizenship will not be tolerated. Instead, acts of citizenship afforded to the broader community are viewed as acts of defiance when performed by the other and are met with cries of, ‘Go back to where you came from,’ and ‘Love Australia or leave it.’ " >>
https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2026/mar/23/social-cohesion-meaning-has-lost-feelgood-vibe

Full speech: Reimagining Multiculturalism in Australia, The Hon Dr Anne Aly MP, Minister for Small Business, Minister for International Development, and Minister for Multicultural Affairs 2025 >>
https://ministers.treasury.gov.au/ministers/anne-aly-2025

#SocialCohesion #ethnonationalism #Anglosphere #SettlerSociety #mainstream #belonging #diversity #IndigenousPeoples #CALD #hate #racism #silencing #culture #entertainment #SongAndDance #ScarilyDiverse #representation #participation #Australia #culture

Social cohesion and gritted-teeth tolerance

"In 2022, for the first time in decades, the government commissioned a review of multiculturalism, Towards Fairness. It found Australia had muddled on, but squandered its world-leading status and recommended the government create a minister, a permanent commission and department for multiculturalism. Labor MP Dr Anne Aly was appointed multicultural affairs minister in 2025."

She delivered a powerful speech last November:

"Aly declared it was time to end “the conditional form of multiculturalism, that kind of gritted-teeth tolerance that,

'You are welcome here as long as your food tastes good,

your celebrations are colourful, and

your music is present to the ears.’"

"But any questioning, any speaking out, any disruptive participation in any practice of citizenship will not be tolerated. Instead, acts of citizenship afforded to the broader community are viewed as acts of defiance when performed by the other and are met with cries of, ‘Go back to where you came from,’ and ‘Love Australia or leave it.’ " >>
https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2026/mar/23/social-cohesion-meaning-has-lost-feelgood-vibe

Full speech: Reimagining Multiculturalism in Australia, The Hon Dr Anne Aly MP, Minister for Small Business, Minister for International Development, and Minister for Multicultural Affairs 2025 >>
https://ministers.treasury.gov.au/ministers/anne-aly-2025

#SocialCohesion #ethnonationalism #Anglosphere #SettlerSociety #mainstream #belonging #diversity #IndigenousPeoples #CALD #hate #racism #silencing #culture #entertainment #SongAndDance #ScarilyDiverse #representation #participation #Australia #culture

Social cohesion and gritted-teeth tolerance

"In 2022, for the first time in decades, the government commissioned a review of multiculturalism, Towards Fairness. It found Australia had muddled on, but squandered its world-leading status and recommended the government create a minister, a permanent commission and department for multiculturalism. Labor MP Dr Anne Aly was appointed multicultural affairs minister in 2025."

She delivered a powerful speech last November:

"Aly declared it was time to end “the conditional form of multiculturalism, that kind of gritted-teeth tolerance that,

'You are welcome here as long as your food tastes good,

your celebrations are colourful, and

your music is present to the ears.’"

"But any questioning, any speaking out, any disruptive participation in any practice of citizenship will not be tolerated. Instead, acts of citizenship afforded to the broader community are viewed as acts of defiance when performed by the other and are met with cries of, ‘Go back to where you came from,’ and ‘Love Australia or leave it.’ " >>
https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2026/mar/23/social-cohesion-meaning-has-lost-feelgood-vibe

Full speech: Reimagining Multiculturalism in Australia, The Hon Dr Anne Aly MP, Minister for Small Business, Minister for International Development, and Minister for Multicultural Affairs 2025 >>
https://ministers.treasury.gov.au/ministers/anne-aly-2025

#SocialCohesion #ethnonationalism #Anglosphere #SettlerSociety #mainstream #belonging #diversity #IndigenousPeoples #CALD #hate #racism #silencing #culture #entertainment #SongAndDance #ScarilyDiverse #representation #participation #Australia #culture

#ethnonationalism Yair, son of wanted war criminal #Netanyahu, is in #Hungary standing in for his father in support of Viktor Orbán. While his father is busy killing Iranians, his son praised cultural and ethnic homogeneity, linked immigration from #Muslim countries to disorder and terrorism, and celebrated an authoritarian leader who claims to protect national “heritage.” The overlap with themes common to many neo‑Nazi and extreme‑right movements is striking.

[…] "Prime Minister Orbán shows strong leadership at a time in Europe when, sadly, that is very rare. In Western Europe, unfortunately, there are weak leaders who cause their countries to decay. They opened their countries to a flood of migrants from Muslim countries. They brought migrants who do not share the same culture and civilization. That brought a lot of public unrest and disputes imported from the Middle East that are not typical of the local population […] One result of this is terrorism, while Hungary on the other hand, under Orbán's leadership, is safe. There is no terrorism, there is social unity. Everyone shares the same Hungarian heritage and culture, and society is much more peaceful. Prime Minister Orbán has done a wonderful job, and he also defends Hungary's sovereignty vis‑à‑vis the European Union, because many countries in Europe have given up their sovereignty and handed it to unelected officials in Brussels who do not serve their countries' interests — while Orbán puts Hungary's interests first and knows how to oppose Brussels' proposals that are contrary to Hungary's interests."

One thing’s certain about Yair: he spends his time in Miami and has dodged military service while his father started multiple wars (and a genocide).

Hebrew https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/b1simb6qbl

#zionism #nazism

#ethnonationalism Yair, son of wanted war criminal #Netanyahu, is in #Hungary standing in for his father in support of Viktor Orbán. While his father is busy killing Iranians, his son praised cultural and ethnic homogeneity, linked immigration from #Muslim countries to disorder and terrorism, and celebrated an authoritarian leader who claims to protect national “heritage.” The overlap with themes common to many neo‑Nazi and extreme‑right movements is striking.

[…] "Prime Minister Orbán shows strong leadership at a time in Europe when, sadly, that is very rare. In Western Europe, unfortunately, there are weak leaders who cause their countries to decay. They opened their countries to a flood of migrants from Muslim countries. They brought migrants who do not share the same culture and civilization. That brought a lot of public unrest and disputes imported from the Middle East that are not typical of the local population […] One result of this is terrorism, while Hungary on the other hand, under Orbán's leadership, is safe. There is no terrorism, there is social unity. Everyone shares the same Hungarian heritage and culture, and society is much more peaceful. Prime Minister Orbán has done a wonderful job, and he also defends Hungary's sovereignty vis‑à‑vis the European Union, because many countries in Europe have given up their sovereignty and handed it to unelected officials in Brussels who do not serve their countries' interests — while Orbán puts Hungary's interests first and knows how to oppose Brussels' proposals that are contrary to Hungary's interests."

One thing’s certain about Yair: he spends his time in Miami and has dodged military service while his father started multiple wars (and a genocide).

Hebrew https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/b1simb6qbl

#zionism #nazism

#ethnonationalism Yair, son of wanted war criminal #Netanyahu, is in #Hungary standing in for his father in support of Viktor Orbán. While his father is busy killing Iranians, his son praised cultural and ethnic homogeneity, linked immigration from #Muslim countries to disorder and terrorism, and celebrated an authoritarian leader who claims to protect national “heritage.” The overlap with themes common to many neo‑Nazi and extreme‑right movements is striking.

[…] "Prime Minister Orbán shows strong leadership at a time in Europe when, sadly, that is very rare. In Western Europe, unfortunately, there are weak leaders who cause their countries to decay. They opened their countries to a flood of migrants from Muslim countries. They brought migrants who do not share the same culture and civilization. That brought a lot of public unrest and disputes imported from the Middle East that are not typical of the local population […] One result of this is terrorism, while Hungary on the other hand, under Orbán's leadership, is safe. There is no terrorism, there is social unity. Everyone shares the same Hungarian heritage and culture, and society is much more peaceful. Prime Minister Orbán has done a wonderful job, and he also defends Hungary's sovereignty vis‑à‑vis the European Union, because many countries in Europe have given up their sovereignty and handed it to unelected officials in Brussels who do not serve their countries' interests — while Orbán puts Hungary's interests first and knows how to oppose Brussels' proposals that are contrary to Hungary's interests."

One thing’s certain about Yair: he spends his time in Miami and has dodged military service while his father started multiple wars (and a genocide).

Hebrew https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/b1simb6qbl

#zionism #nazism

#ethnonationalism Yair, son of wanted war criminal #Netanyahu, is in #Hungary standing in for his father in support of Viktor Orbán. While his father is busy killing Iranians, his son praised cultural and ethnic homogeneity, linked immigration from #Muslim countries to disorder and terrorism, and celebrated an authoritarian leader who claims to protect national “heritage.” The overlap with themes common to many neo‑Nazi and extreme‑right movements is striking.

[…] "Prime Minister Orbán shows strong leadership at a time in Europe when, sadly, that is very rare. In Western Europe, unfortunately, there are weak leaders who cause their countries to decay. They opened their countries to a flood of migrants from Muslim countries. They brought migrants who do not share the same culture and civilization. That brought a lot of public unrest and disputes imported from the Middle East that are not typical of the local population […] One result of this is terrorism, while Hungary on the other hand, under Orbán's leadership, is safe. There is no terrorism, there is social unity. Everyone shares the same Hungarian heritage and culture, and society is much more peaceful. Prime Minister Orbán has done a wonderful job, and he also defends Hungary's sovereignty vis‑à‑vis the European Union, because many countries in Europe have given up their sovereignty and handed it to unelected officials in Brussels who do not serve their countries' interests — while Orbán puts Hungary's interests first and knows how to oppose Brussels' proposals that are contrary to Hungary's interests."

One thing’s certain about Yair: he spends his time in Miami and has dodged military service while his father started multiple wars (and a genocide).

Hebrew https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/b1simb6qbl

#zionism #nazism

#ethnonationalism Yair, son of wanted war criminal #Netanyahu, is in #Hungary standing in for his father in support of Viktor Orbán. While his father is busy killing Iranians, his son praised cultural and ethnic homogeneity, linked immigration from #Muslim countries to disorder and terrorism, and celebrated an authoritarian leader who claims to protect national “heritage.” The overlap with themes common to many neo‑Nazi and extreme‑right movements is striking.

[…] "Prime Minister Orbán shows strong leadership at a time in Europe when, sadly, that is very rare. In Western Europe, unfortunately, there are weak leaders who cause their countries to decay. They opened their countries to a flood of migrants from Muslim countries. They brought migrants who do not share the same culture and civilization. That brought a lot of public unrest and disputes imported from the Middle East that are not typical of the local population […] One result of this is terrorism, while Hungary on the other hand, under Orbán's leadership, is safe. There is no terrorism, there is social unity. Everyone shares the same Hungarian heritage and culture, and society is much more peaceful. Prime Minister Orbán has done a wonderful job, and he also defends Hungary's sovereignty vis‑à‑vis the European Union, because many countries in Europe have given up their sovereignty and handed it to unelected officials in Brussels who do not serve their countries' interests — while Orbán puts Hungary's interests first and knows how to oppose Brussels' proposals that are contrary to Hungary's interests."

One thing’s certain about Yair: he spends his time in Miami and has dodged military service while his father started multiple wars (and a genocide).

Hebrew https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/b1simb6qbl

#zionism #nazism

from 2019, nothing's changed

from 2019, nothing's changed

https://quokk.au/c/mop/p/670427/from-2019-nothing-s-changed

from 2019, nothing's changed

https://quokk.au/c/mop/p/670427/from-2019-nothing-s-changed

from 2019, nothing's changed

https://quokk.au/c/mop/p/670427/from-2019-nothing-s-changed

Sir Ian McKellen quoting Shakespeare. Words for the modern day on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXq58BbhCO4

Sir Thomas More is a play written circa 1592 in collaboration between Henry Chettle, Anthony Munday, William Shakespeare, and others. It is about the riots against an influx of immigrants in 1517.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_More
#speech #literature #strangers #riots #aliens #EthnoNationalism #hate #violence #zeitgeist

Sir Ian McKellen quoting Shakespeare. Words for the modern day on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXq58BbhCO4

Sir Thomas More is a play written circa 1592 in collaboration between Henry Chettle, Anthony Munday, William Shakespeare, and others. It is about the riots against an influx of immigrants in 1517.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_More
#speech #literature #strangers #riots #aliens #EthnoNationalism #hate #violence #zeitgeist