The violence of colonization was not limited to bombs and armies.
The sky lights up as a building is hit during an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City late on Nov. 2. As the assault on Gaza nears its fifth week, I’ve been watching the warfare over language, rhetoric and memory. Understandably, I have gotten a lot of responses to last week’s piece on race, colonialism and the Palestinian plight — including this from Michael Gross of Burke, Va.:“When discussing colonialism we rightly think of a people who ventured to a place that they had no history of living e.g.
As a Ghanaian-Nigerian, I know that Ghana and Nigeria are British colonial projects, even though the British did not mount an invasion, displace the tribes living there and settle the country for themselves.This week so happens to be the 106th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, in which British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour declared the empire’s intention to established a Jewish nation. So I have been reading a lot about what the British themselves said and did.On Nov.
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