Both the United States and Israel were founded and exist on land taken during ongoing genocides. Settler colonialism drives these genocides, and both nations share an ideology that justifies the theft and rationalizes the killing.

American Progress, a 1872 painting by John Gast, depicts the settler-colonial dispossession of Native America as a celebration of the idea of Manifest Destiny. (Image: Wikimedia)Both the United States and Israel were founded and exist on land taken during ongoing genocides. Settler colonialism drives these genocides, and both nations share an ideology that justifies the theft and rationalizes the killing.

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