Andreas Malm

‘The colonist is an exhibitionist. His safety concerns lead him to remind the colonised out loud: “Here I am the master,”’ Frantz Fanon writes in The Wretched of the Earth.2 Every suggestion of a limit to the destructive power of the settler-colonial state is received as a questioning of its unlimited mastery, and so it must be met with a frenzy of recidivism. The free unfolding of this dynamic can end only with scorched earth in Gaza and beyond.

What, exactly, is it that ties the state of Israel and the rest of the West so closely together?

explanation, still as popular as ever on parts of the left, is the power of the Zionist lobby. I will come back to this.