#settlercolonialism

For over a century, the term antisemitism has been narrowly defined to refer exclusively to prejudice and hostility toward Jewish people. While that usage is rooted in a very real and painful history—particularly the horrors of the Holocaust and the persistence of anti-Jewish sentiment across the globe—it is time to interrogate and expand the term’s definition.

Because Semitic people are not a monolith. And antisemitism, if we are honest, should not be either.

The Linguistic Truth

The term Semite refers to a broad group of people who speak or descend from speakers of Semitic languages—Hebrew, Arabic, Amharic, Aramaic, and others. This includes Jews, Arabs, Ethiopians, Assyrians, and more. The linguistic origin is clear. But over time, the term antisemitism has been exclusively applied to Jews, erasing the Semitic identity of millions of others who have also faced historic and ongoing oppression.

This isn’t just an academic oversight—it has serious ethical and political consequences.

A Weaponized Definition

Today, we see a dangerous misuse of the term antisemitism. Defending Palestinian rights, exposing war crimes, or criticizing the policies of the Israeli government can result in being labeled “antisemitic”—even when these critiques come from Arabs or other Semitic people themselves.

It is not only inaccurate to call Semitic people antisemitic for criticizing their oppression, it’s also morally absurd. The term has been twisted into a tool of suppression, used to silence legitimate resistance and shield systems of violence from accountability.

The Case of Palestine: Occupation, Apartheid, and Silence

Let’s be clear: what is happening to Palestinians under Israeli occupation is not a misunderstanding or a “complex conflict.” It is the deliberate displacement, surveillance, imprisonment, and dehumanization of an indigenous Semitic people.

• Gaza has been described as the world’s largest open-air prison. Today, it resembles a death camp.

• Between 500–700 Palestinian children are kidnapped by Israeli military forces annually, often taken from their homes at night, denied legal representation, and held in military prisons without charge.

• Palestinians are taxed by the occupying power, yet denied equal rights, legal protections, or meaningful political representation.

• Illegal Israeli settlers routinely attack Palestinian civilians under the protection—or participation—of Israeli forces.

And yet, when Palestinians speak out against this, they are told their resistance is antisemitic.

This is gaslighting at a global scale.

Expanding the Definition: A Moral Imperative

If we are going to fight antisemitism, then let us fight it in all its forms—against all Semitic peoples.

• Let us condemn the hatred and demonization of Jews wherever it occurs.

• But also condemn the dehumanization of Palestinians, Arabs, and other Semitic groups who are treated as second-class citizens, occupiable, bombable, and disposable.

This is not about minimizing Jewish suffering—it’s about recognizing that antisemitism cannot be a one-way street. When we exclude Arab Semites from the protection of this term, we reinforce a hierarchy of whose lives, whose languages, and whose lineages are worth defending.

Toward an Inclusive Framework

It is time for our language to reflect our values. The fight against hate must be principled, not political. If antisemitism means the hatred, marginalization, or violent erasure of Semitic people, then Palestinians must be included in that struggle—not criminalized for surviving it.

Reclaiming the full scope of antisemitism is not just about semantics. It’s about justice, solidarity, and truth.

Massacred while begging for help: Israel killed even those who came to save her.

Hind Rajab was born on May 3, 2018, in Gaza City, Palestine, into a civilian population living under blockade, repeated military operations, and structural deprivation. She was a child, with no political role, no protection, and no possibility of escape from the reality imposed on her life. On January 29, 2024, while attempting to flee the Tel al-Hawa area with members of her family during an Israeli military offensive, the vehicle they were in was struck by Israeli fire. The adults and children with her were killed. Hind survived the initial attack, wounded and trapped inside the car, surrounded by the bodies of her relatives.

For hours, she remained in contact by phone with operators of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society. Her voice—frightened, lucid, and desperate—documented in real time the abandonment of a child under fire. She described tanks nearby and begged for rescue. A medical team was dispatched after coordination intended to allow safe passage. That ambulance was also hit, and the two paramedics sent to save her were killed. Contact with Hind was lost. For days, her fate remained unknown. On February 10, 2024, after Israeli forces withdrew from the area, her body was found alongside those of her family and the rescue team.

The case provoked global outrage. The Palestinian Red Crescent accused Israeli forces of deliberately targeting both civilians and coordinated medical responders. Amnesty International attributed the killing of Hind and the paramedics to the Israeli army, describing it as a violation of the laws of war and fundamental human rights. Independent investigations and journalistic reconstructions have challenged official denials and reinforced the evidence of military presence and responsibility in the area at the time of the attack. No definitive judicial accountability has followed.

Hind Rajab has become one of the most devastating symbols of the war in Gaza: a child left alive long enough to ask for help, then killed along with those who tried to reach her. Her death embodies the collapse of protection for civilians and the targeting, direct or indirect, of those who attempt to save them.

Also, this is going to be a political rant because I'm currently writing about colonialism.

The vast majority of US citizens are completely detached from the colonialism that our government has committed since its foundation.

The theft of Indigenous land, the genocide of Indigenous peoples, and the extraction of their resources.

The countless wars and coups that have destabilized sovereign nations in South America, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

The propaganda that America is the best nation in the world brings the people here who were harmed through colonialism. Hoping to have a happier life, they get treated as lesser than human.

Here's the thing about colonialism: it's global.

Europe benefits from our violence through the extraction of resources and immigration, just as much as we benefit from Europe's own colonialism.

Cheap, desperate labor is easier to exploit than your local union man. Which is morally and ethically wrong, but when have capitalists cared about that?

Then the media and government turn around and scapegoat the people who came here for a better life when the government is failing from its own ineptitude.

Meanwhile, the dude driving his lifted Dodge Ram and waving his Confederate flag votes for the government to fail because he lacks the bandwidth to think beyond NASCAR and his lawnmower.

Here's the thing: he's just as much a victim as he is a perpetrator, because the government doesn't invest in education, healthcare, and infrastructure.

It invests in the military-industrial complex to destabilize, invade, destroy, extract, and exploit.

🐚 The Saltwater Series ~ Stories from the Pacific

“Shining light on the silenced stories of the Kanak people and the Pacific”

⋆₊𓇼࿐𖦹˖ ࣪⭑ Kanak Rising- What’s Happening in New Caledonia Today?⋆｡˚⋆ Part 1: Who are the Kanak people 

The Kanak people are the Indigenous Melanesians of New Caledonia, with ancestral ties to the land ranging thousands of years. Their homeland was first discovered by European contact when James Cook arrived in 1774 and named it “New Caledonia” due to its likeness to the Scottish Highlands. It was then colonized by France in 1841, leading to widespread displacement, land loss, and exploitation, particularly related to nickel mining.

Under colonial rule, the Kanak faced forced labor, land seizure, and violent repression. Their long-standing struggle for sovereignty and cultural survival led to the Nouméa Accord (1998), which promised progressive political autonomy and a path toward independence.

King Charles the Privileged git!