Tag: Palestine: Nazi food theft

NOVANEWS Israeli food theft as a form of genocide of Palestinian culture By Lawrence Davidson Cultural genocide Back in 2012 I wrote a short book entitled Cultural Genocide (Rutgers University Press). It looked at four case studies of this phenomenon: the American Indians, Russian treatment of Jews in the 19th century, Chinese assimilation of Tibet and Israel’s ongoing treatment of the Palestinians. It is an aspect of the Palestinian plight that I want to revisit here. The idea behind cultural genocide is relatively simple: it is the systematic erasure of the culture of indigenous people subject to colonisation. The endgame here is that the conquered land will no longer be popularly identified with the culture and traditions of those who were once native to it. Instead, their culture wil...