Lecture by Josh Ruebner frames Israel’s genocide in Gaza as the culmination of a 75-year settler colonial project rooted in the logic of elimination. Drawing from diplomatic records, the 1948 Nakba is shown to have involved systematic violence, mass displacement, and property destruction—acts known and tolerated by US officials. The talk criticizes the Biden administration’s unprecedented military support for Israel, contrasting it with the more restrained approach of the Truman administration. It concludes that justice requires dismantling apartheid, ending US complicity, rejecting the two-state paradigm, and actualizing the Palestinian right of return. This source is valuable for research on Israeli settler colonialism, the ongoing Nakba, the Gaza genocide, US complicity, the Biden administration, the right of return, and the two-state solution.
