Dehumanisation, colonialism and its accomplices

Colonialism is dehumanising. It is something akin to a spectacle that several world leaders and ministers have partially woken up to that fact, after a video showing Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir humiliating the kidnapped Global Sumud Flotilla activists generated much negative attention on social media. Israeli ambassadors were summoned, while the US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said that Ben Gvir “betrayed the dignity of his nation. Ben Gvir did not betray dignity. He exposed Israel’s disregard of dignity. In colonialism, dignity does not exist. The outrage was merely controlled diplomatic theatrics, as dehumanisation spilled over to non-Palestinians. When images of Palestinians, detained, bound, and held in pits first emerged on social media during the genocide, Israel’s security […]