Amy McQuire: The No vote was a racist vote

Amy McQuire says The No vote was a racist vote

We must recentre this No vote on what we already know is true: the racism and white supremacy of a settler-colonial state which, even now, even as the country votes against us, refuses to acknowledge its true face.

It is not time to be silent — not for our own people, but also for our Indigenous and brothers and sisters in Gaza and across the world.

Many genocide scholars have already stated that what is happening in Gaza is a textbook case of genocide. I repeat that: this is not a war.

This is mass ethnic cleansing and genocide, and the Israeli government has already perpetrated war crimes on the people of Gaza.

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Racism is the basis for settler-colonial states, such as Australia, USA, Canada, New Zealand, and Israel. One cannot displace the indigenous peoples without treating them as lessers by destroying their cultures and connections to the land. Settler-colonialism is all about replacing the indigenous populations.

The struggles against settler-colonialism are linked around the world. It is not identity politics to promote the struggles of the dispossessed. The ruling class will try everything to discredit and suppress the resistance groups because the power of the ruling class comes from oppression. They are riding the tiger and cannot get off.