October 20, 2023
The Café and the Colony
You can replace a people with yourselves: genocide. Or you can replace two peoples with new peoples: decolonization.
One of the basic truths of the Israel-Palestine conflict is that there are no acts within it that can accord with universal human rights: the conflict itself is the trespass. Let me be clearer: the colonization, itself, is the trespass. It is the original sin against human rights. It is the disease.
