Opinion: This is not about Hamas. It's a 75-year colonial war

In his latest column for Middle East Eye, researcher Emile Badarin argues that ethnic cleansing in Palestine "is inseparable from the racialised structures of Zionism"

He writes: "Ethnic cleansing and genocide are not spontaneous events; they are preceded by deliberate racial branding, alongside spatial and military planning.

The racialised branding that laid the groundwork for the dispossession of Palestinians in 1948, forcing hundreds of thousands into exile while destroying their towns and villages, endures to this day. The Zionist narrative regards all Palestinians as a demographic threat to the state of Israel.

This branding has been intricately linked with meticulous spatial planning, aiming to concentrate the Palestinian population into encircled and non-contiguous enclaves in the occupied West Bank, Gaza and bounded neighbourhoods within Israel."

You can read the full opinion piece below. 

Column: 'This is not about Hamas. It's a 75-year colonial war'