Settler Colonialism | The Bayat Beat [024]

With over 300 injured almost 30 dead, many of which are children, Palestinians are facing rapid state sanctioned ethnic cleansing. They are being ripped from their homes, killed in the streets and beaten in their places of worship. The whole world is watching, but is the world listening? Is the world listening to the pleas of the Palestinian people or the bias apathetic mainstream media? We find that many are quick to recognize the oppression of other ethnicities, but when it comes to Palestinians we are met with a cold and nervous: "it's complicated." We study and are quick to condemn the history of colonialism in our past, but when we see it today, in 2021, we shake our heads and avert our eyes. Because when the Palestinian child says "look into my eyes" we fear that we might feel something. How does settler colonialism of the past relate to the settler colonialism today? What are the elements that drive the colonizers mindset, and will the world finally look into that child's eyes?