{"id":1315211,"date":"2023-11-06T17:47:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T17:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/?p=145497"},"modified":"2023-11-06T17:47:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T17:47:27","slug":"what-does-landback-have-to-do-with-the-war-against-palestine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/11\/06\/what-does-landback-have-to-do-with-the-war-against-palestine-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does LandBack Have to Do with the War Against Palestine?"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a> A recurring theme in the campaigns has been landgrabs, or the seizure of land occupied by people who have been living there for centuries or millennia. With this in mind, the Green Party of St. Louis (GP StL) decided to point to the strong connection between the criminal occupation of Palestine and the LandBack movement on its website, in its speeches and in its flyers<\/a>. <\/p>\n LandBack<\/a> was introduced in 2018 by Arnell Tailfeathers<\/a> of the Blackfoot Confederacy. [Land Back has been percolating since, at least, the publication of the Red Paper in 1970, led by Indigenous leader Harold Cardinal in Canada. The Red Paper has been updated and republished<\/a> by the Yellowhead Institute. — DV ed] The movement called for Native Americans in the US and Canada for to regain their ancestral lands<\/a>. The idea quickly spread to Mexico, Australia, New Zealand and even Fiji.<\/p>\n LandBack could easily encompass the 104 million Adivasi<\/a> of India, Native cultures throughout Latin America, and peoples across Africa who have been driven out of their homes for corporate farming, fossil fuel extraction, and desecration of land for \u201cgreen\u201d energy minerals. <\/p>\n Today, there is no place more justified for LandBack than Palestine, where Israeli \u201csettlers\u201d (with military backing) have pushed them off their land and slaughtered them for generations. <\/p>\n According to the LandBack manifesto<\/a> \u201cOur struggle is interconnected with the struggles of all oppressed Peoples. It is a future where Black reparations and Indigenous LANDBACK coexist. We are the land.\u201d <\/p>\n Going far beyond economics, LandBack sees land as tied to culture \u2013 regaining land is central to efforts by the colonized to assert their existence. It advocates decolonization, dismantling white supremacy, and reclaiming stewardship to save their land, <\/p>\n Palestinian efforts to regain their land can become a spark to mobilize LandBack across the globe.<\/p>\n Whose Lives Matter?<\/b><\/p>\n Colonizers inevitably dehumanized their victims, whether enslaving Africans or thieving indigenous land. Racist slurs permeated the capitalist conquest of those they deemed \u201cinferior.\u201d<\/p>\n One of the current dehumanization fads is saving the word \u201cterrorist\u201d for those who assert their human rights. Corporate media never portray the Israeli\u00a0Defense\u00a0Force as \u201cterrorist,\u201d although it has waged countless military attacks on Palestinians during the past 75 years. The only way that this makes sense is by assuming that \u201cPalestinian Lives Do Not Matter.\u201d<\/p>\n After a Benjamin Netanyahu aide admitted<\/a> that Israeli forces targeted a hospital for over 500 murders to supposedly attack a Hamas base, Joe Biden swore his support for Israel. He sides with Netanyahu no matter how many Palestinians Israel kills. Biden claims to be humanitarian while acting like \u201cPalestinian Lives Do Not Matter.\u201d <\/p>\n Genocidal Landgrab of Palestine<\/b><\/p>\n Genocide of a people includes both their physical elimination and the extermination of their culture, their ways of living, their ties to the land, their customs, the things they hold sacred. US and Canadian \u201cIndian schools\u201d that forced children to cut their hair and speak English were just one way that Western powers have screeched at other peoples that their cultures are too worthless to be preserved.<\/p>\n The Balfour Declaration, which set the stage for partitioning Palestine, was based on the assumption that Israel would eventually drive out the people who lived there. It was a scheme for slow but certain genocide of Palestinians.<\/p>\n Biden is at least as guilty for committing genocide against Palestinians as is Netanyahu or Trump. All three join together to do whatever it takes to eliminate Palestinians and peoples across the globe who are in the way of landgrabs. <\/p>\n Palestine Is the World<\/b><\/p>\n
\nAs horrible as Zionist atrocities against Palestinians are, we must not forget the fact that they reflect events that have happened for decades and that will continue to happen. They are the current chapter in repeated parades of mass extermination which have characterize capitalism since its birth. <\/p>\n