Other sites, resources
From Askiy to the Sea, by the Yellowhead Institute
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East
About Face: Veterans Against The War
Palestine Children’s Relief Fund
Companies Profiting from the Gaza Genocide, by the Action Center for Corporate Accountability
Collections on this site
Anarchists & Fellow Travellers on Palestine
If We Must Fight, Let’s Fight for the Most Glorious Nation, Insubordination
Intro / Overview
“The people of Palestine has lost not only political control over its country, but physical occupation of its country as well: it has been deprived not only of its inalienable right to self-determination, but also of its elemental right to exist on its own land!”
Fayez A. Sayegh, Zionist Colonialism in Palestine (1965)
“The Zionist ideology insists not only on downgrading the natives in their own lands, but on depriving the natives of their lands altogether.”
George Jabbour, Settler Colonialism in Southern Africa and the Middle East (1970)
“Such a strategy does not imply that activity within the Israeli working class should be neglected; it only implies that this activity too must be subordinated to the general strategy of the struggle against Zionism.”
Haim Hanegbi, Moshé Machover and Akiva Orr, The Class Nature of Israeli Society (1971)
“Institutions whose humanistic and social (even socialist) inspiration were manifest for Jews — the kibbutz, the Law of Return, various facilities for the acculturation of immigrants — were precisely, determinedly inhuman for the Arabs. In his body and being, and in the putative emotions and psychology assigned to him, the Arab expressed whatever by definition stood outside, beyond Zionism.”
Edward W. Said, Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Victims (1979)
“Now and onwards, you must not allow your friends and comrades to turn their backs on the Palestinian liberation struggle. You must not allow them to falter in the face of the events of this week, or to devolve into insipid both-sideism or pragmatic armchair generalismo, or to publish cowardly denunciations that do nothing more than provide a left cover for an impending genocide on the people of Gaza.”
Palestinian Youth Movement, The First Week (2023)
“In any case, the story of Israel’s so-called ammunition economy begins in Ukraine.”
Haaretz, ‘It’s a War of Cruel Rich People‘ (2024)
Current overview
( in reverse chronology )
UN rights chief condemns ‘unprecedented bloodshed’ in occupied West Bank, from Al Jazeera
Israel has encroached on 32% of Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation shows, from Al Jazeera
Ontario Federation of Labour open letter to University of Toronto President
Imperialism’s Shell Game, by Darryl Li
Palestinian Prisoner’s Day: How many are still in Israeli detention?, from Al Jazeera
Mapping Israel-Lebanon cross-border attacks, from Al Jazeera
Three Genocides, by Eyal Weizman
How Canada helps build Israel’s fighter jets, by The Breach
German Arms Exports to Israel: 2003-2023, by Forensis
Palestinian town of Jericho names street after US soldier who set himself on fire
Direct action confronts Canada-Israel arms trade, by Kirsten Francescone and Irene Suvillaga
Or Just Say Nothing: A Response to CrimethInc.’s Initial Statement on Aaron Bushnell, by anonymous
Burnt Offerings: Aaron Bushnell and the age of immolation, by Erik Baker
Taking Aaron Bushnell at His Word (and Deed), by Lyle Jeremy Rubin
Free Palestine, Stop Cop City, by the Palestinian Youth Movement
Two Months, by the Palestinian Youth Movement
Palestine, platitudes and silence, by Tommy Lawson
Why Canada is one of Israel’s most extreme defenders, by Martin Lukacs
The Second Week, by the Palestinian Youth Movement
Ukraine says Israel-Hamas war shows West must ramp up arms production, from Politico
U.S. to send Israel artillery shells initially destined for Ukraine, by Barak Ravid / Axios
Statement on Palestine, by the Pinko Collective
The First Week: Dispatch from the Palestinian Youth Movement
A Textbook Case of Genocide, by Raz Segal
On Mourning and Statehood: A Response to Joshua Leifer, by Gabriel Winant
The wars in Israel and Ukraine are linked, along with the aid, by Josh Rogin / Washington Post
Antony Loewenstein on how Israel exports weapons and surveillance around the world, from Mondoweiss
Pentagon Sends U.S. Arms Stored in Israel to Ukraine, from the New York Times
Historical overview
( in reverse chronology )
Class struggle in Palestine, by the Working Class History podcast (2024)
A Future of Walls or Liberation, by Alexander Aviña (2023)
A Brief History of Canada’s Role in the Colonization of Palestine, by Lucy El-Sherif (2023)
Exiting Law and Entering Revolution, by Basel al-Araj (2018 / translated 2024)
Israel is arming neo-Nazis in Ukraine, by Asa Winstanley (2018)
Dismantle it and let them fall, by Bassel al-Araj (2012/2020)
Architect of apartheid: Canada’s support for Israel has taken many forms, but perhaps its greatest gift has been its example, by Mike Krebs (2012)
Remember the Jewish Labor Bund?, by Alon Aviram (2012)
Israel’s nightmare: Homegrown neo-Nazis in the Holy Land, by Eric Silver (2007)
Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native, by Patrick Wolfe (2006)
Indigenous Intifada: Federal MP Compares Natives to Palestinians (2002)
Behind the 21st Century Intifada, by Aufheben (2002)
Holding the Green Line: Israel and Ecological Imperialism, by Les Levidow (1990)
Israel and Guatemala: Arms, Advice and Counterinsurgency, by Cheryl Rubenberg (1986)
Uzi Diplomacy: How Israel Makes Friends and Enemies Around the World, by Victor Perera (1985)
Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom, by Fredy Perlman (1983)
Palestinians and Native People are Brothers, by the Native Study Group (1976)
Palestine’s Struggle, from FighT bAck (1975)
The Class Nature of Israeli Society, by Haim Hanegbi, Moshé Machover and Akiva Orr (1971)
Settler Colonialism in Southern Africa and the Middle East, by George Jabbour (1970)
Let Us Get Out of the Occupied Territories Immediately (1967)
Two Local Wars, by Mustapha Khayati (1967)
A US Victory in the Middle East?, by Anne-Marie Fearon (1967)
Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, by Fayez A. Sayegh (1965)
Palestine, by Albert Meltzer (1948)
Zionism, from War Commentary (1944)
The “Advantages” of British Imperialism, by Reginald Reynolds (1939)
Anarchist Tactic for Palestine, by Albert Meltzer (1939)
Palestine and Socialist Policy, by Reginald Reynolds (1938)
National Atavism, from Mother Earth (1906)
Specifics, stories, statements, analysis
( in reverse chronology )
Jenin resistance defiant as Israeli army kills 12 Palestinians in raid, by Shatha Hanaysha
“Set the terms of your struggle:” The Cal Poly Humboldt Commune Speaks
From Harlem to Palestine: Globalize the Intifada, by the People of Hind’s Hall
To Them, We Are All Outside Agitators: Encampments & Escalation, by Within Our Lifetime
Birzeit University Teachers & Employees Union releases a statement in defence of academic freedom
Militarism is the carbon bomb we can no longer ignore, by Nick Gottlieb
Canada To Host Tests Of Israeli Arms Tech Used On Palestinians, by Alex Cosh
Gaza is one big ‘kill zone’, by Belén Fernández
Joint Statement: Canada must suspend arms trade with Israel
Violent Crackdown at Land Day March, by David Gray-Donald & Nur Dogan
Stat Can Data Raises More Concerns About ‘Non-Lethal’ Israel Exports, by Alex Cosh
Canadian arms ban on Israel: Step in the right direction but no silver bullet, by Kelsey Gallagher
Honouring Palestinian martyrs, by Rehab Nazzal
Trudeau Government Will Not Revoke Existing Permits For Israel Military Exports, by Alex Cosh
Ottawa slow-walking Israel’s request for permission to import armoured vehicles, from CBC
Unlocking the ‘Mystery’: Ilan Pappé Writes In Memory of Aaron Bushnell
Direct action confronts Canada-Israel arms trade, by Kirsten Francescone and Irene Suvillaga
Canadian Military Buying $43 Million Of Israeli Missiles Used In Gaza Attacks, by Alex Cosh
Aaron Bushnell was my friend. May he never be forgotten, by Levi Pierpont
Memories of Aaron Bushnell as Recounted by His Friends, edited by CrimethInc
Why Would Anyone Kill Themselves to Stop a War? On Aaron Bushnell and Others, by Ann Wright
The truth about Canada’s weapons exports to Israel, by The Breach
Biden Admin Deployed Air Force Team to Israel to Assist with Targets, Document Suggests
Gaza daily deaths exceed all other major conflicts in 21st century: Oxfam, from Al Jazeera
The Tulkarem Brigade’s ‘men in the sun’ resist in search of freedom, by Shatha Hanaysha
CBC says killing of Palestinians doesn’t merit terms ‘murderous,’ ‘brutal’, by Emma Paling
Israeli military uses drones to kill Palestinians in West Bank’s Tulkarem, from Al Jazeera
Hundreds flood Burnaby’s Metrotown Mall to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, from CityNews
Assembly of First Nations backs permanent Gaza ceasefire, by Jeremy Appel
Stephen Harper’s firm pours $350M into developing military tech for Israel, by Tim Groves
In Ukraine war arms race, US stalls as Israel, Turkey and South Korea surge, from Politico
US sends ‘bunker buster’ bombs to Israel for war on Gaza, report says, by Al Jazeera
‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza, by Yuval Abraham
In stunning pre-dawn raids, Toronto police ‘terrorize’ Palestine activists, by Martin Lukacs
The “Civilized World” and its Genocides: Gaza’s Colonial Precedents, by Azeezah Kanji
Palestine, platitudes and silence, by Tommy Lawson
US Is Quietly Sending Israel More Ammunition, Missiles, by Tony Capaccio / Bloomberg News
Settler Moves to Indigeneity: From Canada to Israel, by Megan Scribe
The Boat That Wasn’t Blocked, by anonymous
Workers’ Power Against Genocide – Fighting for a Free Palestine, by Geelong Anarchist-Communists
‘Want to die with my family’: Gaza workers, patients stuck in West Bank, by Al Jazeera Staff
Oakland Rallies To Block Boat Carrying Israeli Arms Shipment, by It’s Going Down
US flying drones above Gaza in search for hostages, by Luis Martinez / ABC News
Salish Sea Intifada – Notes On Expanding the Struggle for the Liberation of the Palestinian People
The Trudeau Government Has Condemned Every Peaceful Method Of Palestinian Resistance, by Alex Cosh
From the Galilee to Gaza: A Voice from Palestine, edited by CrimethInc
Canadian Labour Is Lining Up In Support Of Palestinians, by Adam D.K. King
Pentagon scours weapons stockpiles for Israel, even as Ukraine stresses industry, from Politico
U.S. to send Israel artillery shells initially destined for Ukraine, by Barak Ravid / Axios
Canadian police connections with Israel colour responses to Palestinian solidarity, by Jeff Shantz
Israeli-Canadian reservists ready to ‘go out and fight’, by Jacob Serebrin / Canadian Press
Revealed: BMO bankrolled Israeli weapons maker with a $90M loan, by Emma Paling
U.S. redirecting Israel-stored munitions to Ukraine, by Reuters
U.S. sends Israel-stored weapons to Ukraine, by Barak Ravid / Axios
Do Small Town Cops Need Training in Israeli Counterterror Techniques?, by Matthew Petti (2022)
Meet the man and learn the story behind the iconic ‘Free Palestine’ car, by Duncan Kinney (2021)
Canada and Israel: Partners in the “Settler Colonial Contract”, by Azeezah Kanji (2021)
Solidarity with Palestine, edited by M.Gouldhawke (2021)
In Memory of Lee Maracle, by the Canada Palestine Association (2021)
Solidarity between Palestinians and Indigenous Activists has Deep Roots, by Marion Kawas (2020)
Inauguration of the First Exchange of Indigenous Peoples of Mexico with Zapatista Peoples (2014)
On Sowing and Harvesting, by Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos (2009)
After the horror, disgust, by Alfredo M. Bonanno (1989)
The Palestinian Struggle Continues, from Insurrection (1988)
The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism, by Fredy Perlman (1984)
Waiting for the Massacre, by Lafif Lakhdar, Mustapha Khayati (1970)
Fine Day For The Race, by Albert Meltzer (1947)
Palestine: Idealists and Capitalists, by Vernon Richards (1938)
Terrorism In Palestine: “Democracy” at Work, by Vernon Richards (1937)
More general anti-colonial, anti-imperialist analysis
Colonization and Decolonization, by Warrior Publications (2006) (PDF for download)
Some very common theoretical errors, by Alfredo M. Bonanno (1982)
Anarchism and the National Liberation Struggle, by Alfredo M. Bonanno and Jean Weir (1976)
Racism and Culture, by Frantz Fanon (1956)
Long Live Free Algeria!, by the Libertarian Communist Federation (1954)
Concerning the Beginning of the End, from Tiempos Nuevos (1912)
Anarchists on National Liberation
Anarchism & Indigenous Peoples
Quotes on colonialism in general
“In Algeria, as in every colony, the foreign oppressor looks upon the native as marking a limit to his dignity and defines himself as constituting an irreducible negation of the colonized country’s national existence.”
Frantz Fanon, French Intellectuals and Democrats and the Algerian Revolution (1957), republished in Toward the African Revolution (1964)
“It would indeed be useless to hope to abolish racism without destroying the colonial system of which it is the product; it would be the height of pharisaism to condemn the racism and the racists spawned by the colonial situation without condemning the colonial system itself.”
Pierre Bourdieu, Sociologie de L’Algérie (1958)
“Rather than concentrating on profit, settler colonialism comes to concentrate on preservation of the settlers’ ‘way of life.'”
Clark Kerr, John T. Dunlop, Frederick H. Harbison and Charles A. Myers, Industrialism and Industrial Man (1960)
“The driving force proper to colonialism is none other than the colonizers themselves and I include in this category not only the colonists strictly speaking, but the whole world of import-export, including local agents of the big metropolitan companies and colonial officials (at least subordinates), not forgetting the metropolitan agents and backers of these interest groups.”
Arghiri Emmanuel, Le colonialisme des “poor-whites” et le mythe de l’impérialisme d’investissement? (1971)
Ukraine as junior partner to Western imperialism / colonialism
Ukrainian troops hurt in Iraq job riot, from Al Jazeera (2004)
Al-Kut, Iraq: After-Battle Report [feat. the Ukrainian Army], from Middle East Quarterly (2004)
Ukraine crisis: Canada sending 200 trainers for Ukraine military, from CBC News (2015)
Canada asked to help train new Ukrainian cops, from the Canadian Press (2015)
Israel is arming neo-Nazis in Ukraine, by Asa Winstanley (2018)
Canadian-made parts found in Iranian attack drones used by Russia in Ukraine (2022)
Canadian on frontlines of Ukraine war saw most of his team killed. He’s going back (2022)
Pentagon Sends U.S. Arms Stored in Israel to Ukraine, from the New York Times (2023)
U.S. sends Israel-stored weapons to Ukraine, by Barak Ravid / Axios (2023)
U.S. redirecting Israel-stored munitions to Ukraine, by Reuters (2023)
Ukraine’s nuclear deal with Canada’s Cameco carries big risks, rewards, from Reuters (2023)
The Afghans I Trained Are Fighting for Putin in Ukraine, by Thomas Kasza / New York Times (2023)
Ukraine’s Zelenskyy and Israel’s Netanyahu discuss Israeli support for Kyiv, from Al Jazeera (2023)
Germany, Israel sign ‘historic’ $3.5bn missile shield deal, by Al Jazeera (2023)
U.S. to send Israel artillery shells initially destined for Ukraine, by Barak Ravid / Axios (2023)
Ukraine says Israel-Hamas war shows West must ramp up arms production, from Politico (2023)
Ukraine abstains from UN General Assembly vote on “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” in Gaza (2023)
Imperialism’s Shell Game, by Darryl Li (2024)
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister discusses regional and global threats with Israeli counterpart (2024)
France sends riot police vehicles to suppress Indigenous uprising in Kanaky using Ukrainian-made cargo planes
Cards advertising 160 acres of “Free Land” in Canada (stolen from Native people) to prospective Ukrainian settlers, from the North Atlantic Trading Company, under contract to the Canadian Minister of the Interior (1900-1905)