Today, armed settlers roam with impunity through Palestinian villages while Israeli occupation forces provide protection, sanctioning a pattern of dispossession and killings. The United Nations has recorded more than 2,000 incidents of settler violence in the West Bank since October 2023 — more than 1,000 Palestinians killed, including over 200 children — even as the Israeli state wages a genocidal war on Gaza less than 100 kilometres away. Meanwhile, Palestinians in the 1948 territories face intensifying repression and ghettoisation.
What is unfolding is not a series of isolated outrages. Nor is it simply the work of bombs and bulldozers. It is the deliberate construction of a comprehensive system of colonial domination: banks, businesses, construction firms, universities, security contractors, political institutions and international trade networks all interlock to form the architecture of apartheid — all ultimately backed by bombs and a brutish carceral state.
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