Comments for settler colonial studies blog

Comment on paul mchugh, lisa ford, settlers, law and natives by Adrian

Adrian — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 07:11:31 +0000

Thanks for law and history review by this blog. I like this.

Comment on studies in settler colonialism edited by fiona batemen and lionel pilkington by Jimmy

Jimmy — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 03:34:15 +0000

Reviewed through the lens of Palestine on Electronic Intifada: http://electronicintifada.net/content/book-review-how-zionism-paved-way-permanent-war/10690

Comment on ran greenstein on israel, apartheid and hasbara by Thomas G. Mitchell, PhD

Thomas G. Mitchell, PhD — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:27:27 +0000

The reason the barrier was built where it was is that Israel has a dysfunctional party and political system similar to that of the French Fourth Republic. Just as France was unable to leave Algeria until it had abolished its parliamentary system and replaced it with a semi-presidential system under De Gaulle, Israel will be unable to leave the West Bank until it institutes serious major electoral reform by either replacing its list proportional representation system or significantly raising the barrier to entry to the Knesset so as to reduce the total no. of parties and increase the size of the larger parties.

Derick,
Israeli Jews and their supporters regard them(selves) as returned natives, not as settlers. In this like everything else there is a zero-sum dynamic with the Palestinians usually attempting to deny any Jewish connection to the land. Because Palestinians, the international Left, etc. regard the settler issue totally as a way of undermining the legitimacy of Israel, of course it is denied by Israelis that they are settlers. And the adjectival form of Jew in English isJewish, those who insist on using Jew as in Jew history expose themselves as either ignorant of proper English or anti-semitic or both.

Comment on anderson on sexual threat, settler society and black perils in kenya by Elektrische Zahnbuerste

Elektrische Zahnbuerste — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:45:02 +0000

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Comment on ran greenstein on israel, apartheid and hasbara by derickwrite

derickwrite — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 17:54:52 +0000

It is such a pity that the “average Jew” who just want a peaceful life is being endangered by the world “domination wannabees”. My contact with Jews over the past two years were marred by near hysterical type of reactions.

Honest efforts at trying to understand were dubbed “Jew Hater”, “Anti-Semitist” and what not. Swearing and general bad behavior on blogs forums etc to honest questions seems to be the standard.

I have sympathy with Jew history, but as one very hated “holocaust denier” puts it: “The average Zionist Jew has lost all perspective and ability to carry a reasonable and formal debate regarding Palestine”.

One has to wander who are the evil people that controls the Jewish tribal psyche? It certainly is not to the advantage of the “average” Jew.

Comment on wmq’s critical form on christopher tomlins’ freedom bound by Daniel MacDonald

Daniel MacDonald — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 01:22:22 +0000

Legal history blog has some other reviews of the book. See the link here:

http://legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/banner-reviews-tomlinss-freedom-bound.html

Daniel MacDonald
http://imagininghistory.blogspot.com/

Comment on lorenzo veracini’s response to the scepticism of tequila sovereign by Defining ‘Settler Colonial Studies’ | Tobold Rollo

Defining ‘Settler Colonial Studies’ | Tobold Rollo — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:34:52 +0000

[...] ‘settled’ or ‘reconciled’ (see 1, 2, 3, 4; see Veracini’s response here, and a response from Patrick Wolfe here). While I agree that the terms ‘empire’ and [...]

Comment on aboriginal australia to learn from aboriginal ireland by thesraidJohn

thesraidJohn — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:11:12 +0000

The Irish Travellers are not the sole native community in Ireland. Most Irish people are Aboriginals due to the British planters policy of not interbreeding with the “natives”. In fact the modern Irish Traveller tradition is quite recently only appearing in the late 1800′s.

Comment on settler girls by settler girls (via settler colonial studies blog) « Diana Brydon

settler girls (via settler colonial studies blog) « Diana Brydon — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 01:37:57 +0000

[...] Settler colonies and colonies of occupation, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Ireland, South Africa, and the Caribbean, held out the possibility for girls to experience freedom from, and the potential to reconfigure, British norms of femininity. ‘Colonial Girlhood/Colonial Girls’ seeks to draw together international scholars for a multi-disciplinary examination of how colonial girlhood was constructed, and redefined, in both British … Read More [...]

Comment on penny edmonds on urbanizing frontiers by PDL

PDL — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:05:21 +0000

A fantastic book, a must read