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Canada: Values Israel and Settler Colonialism

canada: While Canada is beginning to come to terms with this reprehensible past through acknowledging these truths, and is beginning the long and difficult journey of reconciliation, the same cannot be said for Canada's close friend and ally, Israel, with whom Canada asserts it has shared values, according to Huffington Post Canada. Israel, too, prides itself on being a country that it claims is a beacon of fairness and equality. We must recognize, however, that Canada's history is one of settler colonialism, a violent process by which settlers from foreign lands dispossessed the indigenous inhabitants of this land, and established a society against the interests and consent of the people who were already living here. However, Israel was established as a state -- similarly to Canada -- through the violent dispossession of the people who were already there, and who already had a society rooted deeply in that land for generations. Annually, on May 15, Palestinians in countries all over the world commemorate the Nakba, including in Canada. This violent process of dispossession is referred to by the people who were already living there--the Palestinians--as the catastrophe, or in Arabic, the Nakba. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.