The Guardian’s Chris McGreal today joins RFI in calling Israeli settlements ‘colonies’:
They all believe that yesterday’s vote in the Israeli parliament backing the removal of Jewish settlers from the Gaza strip is a historic step that will inevitably lead to the unravelling of his life’s work at the vanguard of expanding Israel’s colonies and borders…
This language is dead wrong. As we articulated in ‘Not an ‘Apartheid Wall”, the deep Jewish historical relationship to this land clearly places settlement activity outside of the realm of ‘colonization’ in the European or North American sense. Israeli legalist Ruth Gavison addressed this issue in an important article in Azure last summer.
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