1948: Israel, South Africa and the question of genocide
Robin DG Kelley — The UN’s failure to dismantle the colonial order foreclosed the application of the Genocide Convention to Israel, South Africa, and the United States.
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Robin DG Kelley — The UN’s failure to dismantle the colonial order foreclosed the application of the Genocide Convention to Israel, South Africa, and the United States.
By positioning October 7 as Israel’s Ground Zero, Hamas’s assault becomes the self-evident point of origin of the current conflict in Gaza and the obligatory reference point for all critical analysis and moral judgment regarding subsequent events. No matter what Israel does, any criticism of Operation Swords of Iron is forestalled by this eternal return of the ever-same.
Today’s events are the product of the founding of Israel in 1948 through the forcible expulsion of Palestine’s existing Arab population and of the three-quarters of a century of brutality and mass murder that followed.
In July 1976, Nairobi allowed IDF jets to cross Kenyan airspace and refuel at JKIA on their way to Entebbe.
Golda Meir, Israeli politician and stateswoman who helped found (1948) the State of Israel and later served as its fourth prime minister (1969–74). She was the first woman to hold the post. Meir previously served as foreign minister (1956–66). Learn more about Meir’s life and career.