05/29/2025
Did you know?
The banks in Israel were called colonial trusts, and that wasn't just branding. They were part of the Zionist economic machinery designed explicitly to settle, displace, and exploit. Institutions like the Jewish Colonial Trust (est. 1899 in London) served as the financial backbone for land acquisition and infrastructure in Palestine, predating the state itself. This wasn't a benign investment strategy, it was part of a colonial settler project with financial teeth.
The IDF, or Israel Defense Forces, wasn’t born as a neutral state army. It emerged in 1948 by consolidating three primary militias: Haganah, Irgun (Etzel), and Lehi (Stern Gang), all of which had been labeled as terrorist organizations by the British Mandate and even by elements within the Jewish community. These groups carried out bombings, assassinations, and massacres, most notoriously the King David Hotel bombing (Irgun, 1946) and the Deir Yassin massacre (Lehi + Irgun, 1948).
When the Israeli state was declared, it didn’t wash away the bloodstains. It absorbed the violence, legitimized the militias, and made the architects of terror into generals and prime ministers like Menachem Begin, leader of Irgun, who later won a Nobel Peace Prize. Irony, thy name is geopolitics.
The Nakba (Arabic for catastrophe) refers to the forced displacement of over 750,000 Palestinians in 1947–1949. Schools might frame it as a side-effect of war, but the archival record tells another story, one of ethnic cleansing by design, not by accident.
Enter Plan Dalet (Plan D), drawn up by the Haganah in early 1948. It was the operational doctrine to secure the future Jewish state by systematically clearing Palestinian villages. The sanitized euphemism was “cleansing hostile elements,” but the reality was destruction, mass killings, and permanent exile. Entire villages were razed, not evacuated, so their people could never return. Over 400 towns and villages were depopulated and erased.
Take Lydda and Ramle: In July 1948, over 50,000 Palestinians were expelled at gunpoint in a forced march through the desert. Yitzhak Rabin signed the orders. David Ben-Gurion approved it. And Begin’s Irgun helped enforce it.
Israel didn’t stop in 1948. It institutionalized displacement. Post-1967, it became a military occupier in Gaza and the West Bank. Settlements were dropped like concrete tumors, checkpoints metastasized, and Palestinians were locked into an open-air prison system.
Over 2 million Palestinians in Gaza live under siege, no port, no airport, and electricity controlled by Israel.
The wall (or “separation barrier”) snakes through Palestinian land, not Israel’s border. It’s not about safety; it’s a land grab.
Administrative detention = you can be arrested indefinitely without charge.
Dual legal systems: Jewish settlers in the West Bank get civil law. Palestinians get military law.
Sound like apartheid? That’s not hyperbole, it’s the legal term used by:
Human Rights Watch (2021)
Amnesty International (2022)
B’Tselem, Israel’s own leading human rights org
Here's some massacre they committed:
Deir Yassin (1948): Over 100 Palestinians massacred. Women r***d, children executed. The goal? Terrorize surrounding villages into fleeing.
Sabra and Shatila (1982): Thousands of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon butchered by Phalangist militias, with the IDF literally lighting the way and sealing the exits. Ariel Sharon was found personally responsible by an Israeli inquiry. He became Prime Minister anyway.
Israel wasn’t founded to be a refuge. It was founded to be a colonial settler state, and like all settler states, it required the erasure of the indigenous population to exist.
This ain’t antisemitism. It’s anti-colonialism.
