Arora, Saurabh; Levidow, Les; O'Donovan, Cian; Stirling, Andy; (2025) Confronting the world’s 21st century colonial genocide. [Digital scholarly resource]. https://4sonline.org/news_manager.php?page=39875

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Commonplace analyses of Israel’s genocide against Gaza have attributed responsibility in concentric circles. Starting with the innermost circle of Israeli politicians and armed forces, bigger circles have included Israel’s settler-colonial political culture, the USA’s massive military aid, Western imperialism and more broadly global racial capitalism. Extending the latter analyses, this essay situates Israel’s ongoing genocide in the wider, deeper world of colonial modernity. This concept understands colonial relations as central to the making of the modern world, not just in the past but also in the present. Thus it subverts the hegemonic Eurocentric frame in which modernity today has overcome colonialism. We propose a ‘topological’ perspective on colonial modernity’s deeply constitutive relations, highlighting how these remain largely the same, even as they enact violent socio-materiality in many new and horrific forms. Beyond the immediate cessation of Israel’s genocidal violence and the centrality of Palestinian anticolonial resistance, our analysis makes a case for directly confronting and transforming modernity’s colonial topologies around the world. Topological transformations require worldwide mobilisations not only for dismantling the web of relations constituting colonial modernity, but also for the flourishing of decolonial relations that make many worlds grounded in reparative justice and demilitarisation across Palestine and elsewhere.

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