THERE is a structure at work. Not a war. Not a conflict. A structure. Patrick Wolfe, the scholar who defined settler colonialism for the modern era, gave us its engine in one sentence: “Settler colonialism destroys to replace.”That sentence is not history. It is today’s headline. It is the rubble of Gaza. It is the gallows being erected inside Israeli prisons. It is the expletive-laden threats screaming out of Washington. It is the silence from Whitehall.We are living through the normalisation of annihilation. And we must name it, precisely, without flinching.