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Racism and the Gaza war
In order to ‘justify’ their actions, oppressors seek to dehumanise their victims – hence the need to present the Palestinians as ‘human animals.’ The anti-racist left should be ready to combat this tendency, writes KEVIN OVENDEN
Last weekend’s massive pro-Palestine demo in London

THE coloniser has to reduce the native to the level of an animal if the process of domination is to be maintained. 

The Martiniquan revolutionary Frantz Fanon was one leading post-war independence figure to remind us of that in the last century. 

Any doubt that this latest war by Israel on the Palestinians arises from the settler-colonial encounter of dispossession, occupation and siege is removed by considering the language of extreme dehumanisation already deployed. 

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