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How France’s Colonial Past Explains Its Racism Today
By: guest5 Date: October 18, 2020, 2:15 pm
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When it comes to Palestine, France can't shake off its colonial
past
[quote]By signing up to serve in the Israeli army and settling
on Palestinian land, French citizens have been contributing to
ongoing violations of international law[/quote]
[quote]On 10 October, the Israeli ambassador to Paris, Aliza Bin
Noun, requested that France Television censor a documentary
entitled Gaza: A Crippled Youth, covering the stories of young
Palestinian demonstrators mutilated by Israeli snipers along the
Gaza fence since the Great March of Return began six months ago.
The documentary follows the life of Alaa, 21, who had trained to
become Palestine’s first cycling champion - a dream that was
shattered on 30 March, when an Israeli bullet took his right
leg. Another young man, 13-year-old Mohamad, wanted to become a
doctor, but was also wounded in the demonstrations and underwent
an amputation. Dozens more have been crippled by Israeli
soldiers since the protests erupted in March.
One of these soldiers is French-Israeli Michael Oiknine, who
proudly tweeted that he killed two Palestinian protesters at the
Gaza fence. His statement incited a storm of controversy, with
many denouncing his acts of terrorism against an unprotected and
besieged civil population. Oiknine later retracted his claim of
killing protesters and issued an apology.[/quote]
[quote]Committing war crimes
Although French police and intelligence services were alerted to
this public confession of murder, Oiknine had nothing to fear;
no French officer would knock on his door to investigate.
There is precedent for French citizens committing war crimes on
occupied Palestinian land. In March 2016, French-Israeli soldier
Elor Azaria fatally shot an injured Palestinian, an
extrajudicial execution that amounted to a crime under
international law, according to Amnesty International. After an
international outcry, Azaria spent nine months in prison.
The French government did not issue a statement on Azaria’s dual
nationality, nor was there any national debate over the
termination of nationality after a war crime, as is the norm
when French citizens commit crimes in Syria or Iraq. Will Azaria
ever be called in by French intelligence services for an
interrogation upon returning home, or have his name added to the
interior ministry’s database?[/quote]
[quote]The French Ministry of Interior has registered in its
database some 18,500 individuals related to radicalisation, most
suspected of having links to terrorist organisations abroad in
Syria and Iraq - but, according to the former interior minister,
none in Israel, a country that has been vigorously condemned for
its ongoing violations of international law.
The interior ministry offers a clear definition of who’s to be
considered a radicalised element. Certain changes in behaviour,
such as a sudden rupture with family members, asocial tendencies
or a shift in cultural identity are among the criteria.[/quote]
Ongoing violations of international law doesn't seem to be a
deterrent for other nations to try and make "peace" with
Israel....
[quote]Lone soldiers
These characteristics fit with the pattern of the “lone
soldiers” programme, designed by the Israeli army to recruit
foreigners or new immigrants who do not have family in the
country. Around 7,000 lone soldiers are currently serving in
Israel, including many French dual nationals, although there are
no exact figures as to how many.
Active recruitment of these soldiers takes place in the French
capital. A few years ago, the Israeli embassy in Paris invited
the local Jewish community to attend a recruitment session with
an army representative. This past August, the Israeli army
welcomed 300 new lone soldiers, including seven from France.
France is viewed as an important source of settlers for Israel,
comprising the largest Jewish community in Europe and the
third-largest in the world, after Israel and the US. According
to Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics, thousands of French
settlers have arrived in the country in recent years; today,
there are more than 21,000 French settlers violating
international law on Palestinian land.
Israel has worked hard to conflate anti-Zionism with
anti-Semitism and colonisation with migration. While migration
has always been part of human nature - triggered by different
social, financial or political reasons - colonisation is a
movement based on privilege, thriving on the exploitation of the
native population’s land and resources. Indeed, French settlers
have contributed to the eradication of Palestinian lives, yet
they have never once been condemned by the French government.
[/quote]
[quote]Murderous colonial history
Could it be that France wouldn’t recognise a colonisation
project, even if it was right before its eyes? Given its own
dark and murderous colonial history throughout the world, France
may have a blind spot in this regard.
Over the past six months, scores of Palestinians in Gaza have
been killed by Israeli forces for demanding their rights to
return home to their villages, located just a few kilometres
from the Israeli fence that imprisons them.
Many of the victims were children who knew nothing but
colonisation, war and misery; were always yearning for a better
life, a better future, one with dignity. It was Israel, backed
by France, that robbed them of this.[/quote]
[quote]Many of the victims were children who knew nothing but
colonisation, war and misery; were always yearning for a better
life, a better future, one with dignity. It was Israel, backed
by France, that robbed them of this.[/quote]
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Re: When it comes to Palestine, France can't shake off its colon
ial past
By: guest5 Date: October 20, 2020, 2:26 pm
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Al-Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe - Episode 1
[quote]Al-Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe
"The Nakba did not begin in 1948. Its origins lie over two
centuries ago…."
So begins this four-part series on the 'nakba', meaning the
'catastrophe', about the history of the Palestinian exodus that
led to the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948, and the establishment
of the state of Israel.
This sweeping history starts back in 1799 with Napoleon's
attempted advance into Palestine to check British expansion and
his appeal to the Jews of the world to reclaim their land in
league with France.
The narrative moves through the 19th century and into the 20th
century with the British Mandate in Palestine and comes right up
to date in the 21st century and the ongoing 'nakba' on the
ground.
Arab, Israeli and Western intellectuals, historians and
eye-witnesses provide the central narrative which is accompanied
by archive material and documents, many only recently released
for the first time.
For Palestinians, 1948 marks the 'nakba' or the 'catastrophe',
when hundreds of thousands were forced out of their homes.
But for Israelis, the same year marks the creation of their own
state.
This series attempts to present an understanding of the events
of the past that are still shaping the present.
This story starts in 1799, outside the walls of Acre in
Ottoman-controlled Palestine, when an army under Napoleon
Bonaparte besieged the city. It was all part of a campaign to
defeat the Ottomans and establish a French presence in the
region.
In search of allies, Napoleon issued a letter offering Palestine
as a homeland to the Jews under French protection. He called on
the Jews to ‘rise up’ against what he called their oppressors.
Napoleon’s appeal was widely publicised. But he was ultimately
defeated. In Acre today, the only memory of him is a statue atop
a hill overlooking the city.
Yet Napoleon's project for a Jewish homeland in the region under
a colonial protectorate did not die, 40 years later, the plan
was revived but by the British. [/quote]
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Re: When it comes to Palestine, France can't shake off its colon
ial past
By: guest5 Date: October 21, 2020, 2:41 pm
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Is France at war with its Muslims?
[quote]A mosque has been ordered shut and a pro-Hamas group
disolved. It follows dozens of raids on muslims and
organisations suspected of inciting hatred. The campaign comes
after the stabbing and decapitation of a teacher by a
Moscow-born Chechen refugee, who was later shot dead by police.
Samuel Paty had discussed cartoons of Prophet Mohammed in a
class on free speech. President Emamnuel Macron has promised to
step up crackdowns on what he calls 'radical Muslims'. He says
he's protecting the French people from 'evil'. But will this
iron-fist policy work? And how much is politics at play?[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnkqCyyy72g
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How France’s Colonial Past Explains Its Racism Today
By: guest5 Date: April 3, 2021, 6:41 pm
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How France’s Colonial Past Explains Its Racism Today
[quote]Despite resistance from French elite, there’ve been
growing calls for France to recognize and apologize for its
violent colonization of millions of people in Africa and Asia.
In fact, by 1901, France ruled 79 million people over 4.6
million square miles.
“Where would France be without its colonies in the Caribbean?”
asks Professor Mame-Fatou Niang. “Where would France be without
its huge possessions in Sub-Saharan Africa? Where would France
be without its possessions in Asia, without Algeria?”[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI696dEof-g
[quote]
D
2 days ago
"It will never be stopped, until we stop it ourselves" - Malcolm
X [/quote]
[quote]Liam Tahaney
1 day ago
Honestly the attitude of "colorblindness" and the idea that they
already "fixed" racism with the revolution (civil war in the us)
has huge parallels with discourse in the us [/quote]
[quote]Prime Sterling
3 days ago
The world is in desperate need of truth and reconciliation.
[/quote]
[quote]Banks of Barcelona
2 days ago
They don't want to talk about colonialism because France is
still a colonial power with their colonial tax on 14 African
countries Jacques Chirac once said without the exploitation of
these 14 countries in Africa, France will become a third world
country [/quote]
[quote]Sydney W
3 days ago
I know people are so sick of hearing about it. I know it.
Imagine how tired people are from suffering from it? 🙃
Nobody wants to talk about it and acknowledge it and this is why
we aren’t moving past it. People heal with apologies and changed
action. We knew this in kindergarten. [/quote]
[quote]Sathya M
3 days ago
France is still a colonial nation. [/quote]
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Re: How France’s Colonial Past Explains Its Racism Today
By: guest5 Date: April 5, 2021, 5:38 pm
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When France Extorted Haiti – the Greatest Heist in History
[quote]In the 19th century, the thinking went that the former
enslavers of the Haitian people needed to be compensated, rather
than the other way around.[/quote] (Homo Hubris)
[quote]In the wake of George Floyd’s killing, there have been
calls for defunding police departments and demands for the
removal of statues. The issue of reparations for slavery has
also resurfaced.
Much of the reparations debate has revolved around whether the
United States and the United Kingdom should finally compensate
some of their citizens for the economic and social costs of
slavery that still linger today.
But to me, there’s never been a more clear-cut case for
reparations than that of Haiti.
I’m a specialist on colonialism and slavery, and what France did
to the Haitian people after the Haitian Revolution is a
particularly notorious examples of colonial theft. France
instituted slavery on the island in the 17th century, but, in
the late 18th century, the enslaved population rebelled and
eventually declared independence. Yet, somehow, in the 19th
century, the thinking went that the former enslavers of the
Haitian people needed to be compensated, rather than the other
way around.
Just as the legacy of slavery in the United States has created a
gross economic disparity between Black and white Americans, the
tax on its freedom that France forced Haiti to pay – referred to
as an “indemnity” at the time – severely damaged the newly
independent country’s ability to prosper. [/quote]
Entire
article:
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Re: How France’s Colonial Past Explains Its Racism Today
By: guest5 Date: April 7, 2021, 8:39 pm
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Kagame: France knew the Rwandan genocide was being planned by
their allies
[quote]"He (former French president Mitterrand) believed this
was necessary for France’s geopolitical position."
This is what Rwandan President Paul Kagame said about a French
report documenting France’s role in the 1994 genocide.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zmLXq5O1dc
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Re: How France’s Colonial Past Explains Its Racism Today
By: guest5 Date: April 29, 2021, 10:56 pm
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How colonialism objectified and otherised the hijab
[quote]On April 4, 2021, France banned the headscarf for anyone
under the age of 18. But the western conception of the ‘veil’
goes back to the European colonisation of the Middle East, and
even further before that.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbEL9ZjYehI
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Re: How France’s Colonial Past Explains Its Racism Today
By: guest5 Date: May 7, 2021, 12:05 am
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Is Napoleon Bonaparte’s legacy really worthy of celebration?
[quote]Here’s a side of #Napoleon​ Bonaparte you probably
have not heard about.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erxVBF8SIQs
I know that Napoleon's image has a place atop a hill in Israel
and that's all I've ever needed to know about Napoleon:
HTML https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/PikiWiki_Israel_3297_Napoleon_Statue_at_Napoleon_Hill_Acre_Israel.jpg/800px-PikiWiki_Israel_3297_Napoleon_Statue_at_Napoleon_Hill_Acre_Israel.jpg
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Re: How France’s Colonial Past Explains Its Racism Today
By: guest5 Date: May 11, 2021, 12:01 am
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France explained: Napoleon, the far-right, the hijab and the
'civil war'
[quote]We explain all the recent political controversy in
France: Napoleon, far-right pundits, the hijab ban, the "civil
war", and France's recent UN-reported crime in Mali.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgGDLt8SuLE
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Re: How France’s Colonial Past Explains Its Racism Today
By: guest5 Date: May 18, 2021, 11:14 pm
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Rwanda says France bears responsibility for enabling 1994
genocide
[quote]France was aware that a genocide was being prepared in
Rwanda ahead of the 1994 killings and the French government bore
a significant responsibility for enabling it, the Rwandan
government said in a report.
#CNN #News[/quote]
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