Thread by @jvplive

This July 4th, remember parallels between the colonization of Turtle Island (“North America”) and Palestine.

If you support Palestinians’ right to return and self-determination in their homeland, you should also support Indigenous people’s demand for #LandBack.

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The parallels between the colonization of Turtle Island and Palestine include land theft.
Ethnic cleansing.
Environmental destruction.
Forced displacement of people from their homes, and sequestration into isolated areas with (artificially) scarce resources.

Denial of self-determination and sovereignty.
Criminalization and surveillance.
Violent repression of resistance.
Erasure of native history and culture.
Ideologies (Manifest Destiny, Zionism) of entitlement to, and justification for, these atrocities.

Of course, there are major distinctions between the colonization of Turtle Island and that of Palestine. It’s hard to even talk about the first as a monolith, since the various peoples of the “Americas” endured colonization in different ways and at different points in time.

Still, there are enough similarities to foster a deep sense of solidarity and joint struggle between Indigenous people and Palestinians — and to make it morally inconsistent to support one liberation movement and not the other.

As @ndncollective writes, the struggles of Palestinians and people indigenous to Turtle Island against settler colonialism "are the same... because settler colonists share playbooks,” and “zionism, white supremacy, and imperialism… act as one to oppress and eliminate us.”

And both groups of natives are working toward a similar vision of liberation. In @ndncollective’s words: “Just as we fight and organize to reclaim land on Turtle Island, our Palestinian relatives fight and organize to return the land and for the land to return to the people.”

Read more of @ndncollective's paper “The Right of Return is LANDBACK" below.

ndncollective.org/right-of-retur…

Image source:
Palestine map adapted from @visualizingpal and US map adapted from Louisiana State University