![]() ![]() Muslims and South Asian, North African and Arab immigrant settlers must interrogate the legitimacy of America’s and Canada’s right to exist and the costly trade-off they make in taking on national identities in these countries that come at the expense of Indigenous peoples at “home” and imperialist adventurism abroad. We have ignored our own complicity as settlers. ![]() Many of us see the US and Canada as secular democracies that provide good economic opportunities and not as settler-colonial societies, serving as the blueprint for Israel. However, many attendees – especially pro-Palestinian immigrants – have failed to comprehend their own relationship to settler colonialism. ![]() Participants have denounced “US imperialism” for enabling Israeli aggression, ethnic cleansing and genocide while others have charged Israel itself with “settler colonialism”. They have attracted a diverse crowd of people, including many Indigenous nations and communities. Over the past two months, protest marches in solidarity with the Palestinian people have taken place all across the United States and Canada. ![]()
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