Harry LaForme: I stood on my ancestral land and said what Carney would not
I stand before you on the land of my ancestors to say what the prime minister should have said: “Anti-Zionism is a libel-driven hate movement that incites violence and the targeting, exclusion, and marginalization of Jews in the diaspora and has as its ultimate goal wiping Israel off the face of Mother Earth and the death of all beings within it.”
Indigenous Zionism at Concordia University
Some time ago, scholars gathered in Montreal, Canada, to discuss “Jewish conceptions of indigeneity in Zionist thought”—that is, Zionist indigeneity and its Jewish roots (rather than the fabricated indigeneity of supposed “non-Jewish Israelis” or various “Canaanites”). They discussed the genuine indigeneity of a continuous and ancient Jewish people that was uprooted, exiled, and returned twice; a people that, until its return, maintained for centuries an indigenous attachment to the Land of Israel—like other indigenous peoples who survived and aspire to return.