Yuval Noah Harari: Why We're All a Bit Colonialist
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Some people feel strongly that all colonialist legacies should be eradicated. Is it possible to achieve such a goal? Well, when such views are expressed using imperial languages (spoken by over 90% of the world's population), the answer is clearly - no. The idea that you can go back in time and erase all traces of colonialism is simply unrealistic. But just because we received certain legacies from our ancestors, that doesn't mean we have to behave like them!
From a recent conversation with @adamgrant for the ReThinking podcast. Listen to the full session at
open.spotify.com/episode/15GS....
#colonialism #imperialism #language #history
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How about we just keep telling the truth about history and see what happens?
@shubhanshuindra4859
24 күн бұрын
But even the truth is contextual, isn't it??
@surrealistidealist
24 күн бұрын
@@shubhanshuindra4859 As long as we support honesty as much as possible, the debates about context would be very enriching.
@CC-xn5xi
24 күн бұрын
Evolution is a fact. It happened.
@ceeemm1901
23 күн бұрын
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." If you read such books as "Lies my Teacher Told Me" and " A Peoples History of the United States", et al, you will see how history has been bullshitified...
I can’t believe this brilliant man actually suggested that being anti-colonialist necessarily entails not speaking colonial languages.
@fafolaw
3 күн бұрын
He didn't say that.
@davereynolds3403
Күн бұрын
He said it to show how ludicrous that would be …
Get rid of being a colonial empire, not get rid of all our history and culture today.
@kiloub
24 күн бұрын
exactly! It's ok to accept reality and history but to pretend it's ok to accept a bad thing as it's happening, is just wild.
@srseki
23 күн бұрын
Someone gains power by getting rid of history and enemy, they won't be convinced at all.
@ericb4512
20 сағат бұрын
That would mean the US will cease to exist and vacate the entire country to native americans, as it is inherently a colonial project. Is that what you want?
The point that is well made often though is that forgiveness must connect with changes in behaviour and the restoration of inherited imbalances.
@CC-xn5xi
11 күн бұрын
Inherited imbalances? Oh please. Evolution doesn't care about your feelings.
@ericb4512
20 сағат бұрын
That's a good point, I think especially the changes in behaviour part is crucial. Restoration of inherited balances and stuff like reparations is often trickier because it's tough to implement without creating new anger and potential injustice, because it's hard to quantify when so many generations have passed and to give something to someone you have to in most cases take it away from others, and that's hard to do without impacting some people who may not be connected to the sins of the past, or others who may not feel they should be punished for the sins of their forefathers who they had no control over.
@CC-xn5xi
20 сағат бұрын
@@ericb4512 Evolution is a worldwide fact. Nature doesn't pay reparations.
He's 100% correct about forgiveness. There is no way to change past injustices. We can only hope to shape the future, and that does often require not wanting vengeance for the historical injustice.
It's the ancients who aren't dead you should be worried about!
@bradsillasen1972
24 күн бұрын
Whatever side you sit on, that's gotta be funny :)
@fir3drag0n1984
24 күн бұрын
Vampires? 😨
@user-rg2ge9dz9w
22 күн бұрын
This man is intellectually subversive and morally dishonest. One simply cannot put old political systems on par with modern ones. He totally ignores the creation and role of the UN system and international laws after 1945. These were precisely set up with the aim of putting a stop to the lawlessness, criminal wars and injustices of the past, caused first and foremost by European States waging war against one another, culminating in the most devastating world wars, which wiped out scores of millions of people across the planet. By doing so, he tries to justify the continuation of unspeakable war crimes Israel has committed and continues to commit against the Palestinian people for the last 76 years.
@NicoleBL2
18 күн бұрын
Right, in particular those ‘ancients’ who are 500 years and older!! 😂
@fir3drag0n1984
18 күн бұрын
@@NicoleBL2 I don't understand the gag what does 'ancients' mean?
Great. M big fan of your valued research. I m from Pakistan and hv read books , written by you. Regards
Most anti-imperial ideologies (at least ones I've seen) are most talking about the economic character of imperialism and colonialism not language
One of the finest historians on the planet. Thank you, Yuval, for your many educational books and videos. You are a great teacher.
@petruflorintofoleanu5865
24 күн бұрын
YOU BELIEVE A SATAN WORSHIPER? WHO WANTS TO CHANGE THE WORDS FROM BIBLE AND SCRIPTURE? GOOD LUCK IN HELL WITH LUCIFER
@jeremyi1788
23 күн бұрын
🤢 🤮
@raous2010
22 күн бұрын
Main satan's lieutnant of wef! Nazi Schwab has learnt a lot from him! 🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤔
@youness4547
20 күн бұрын
This is what I thought before he deleted my comment, just because I expressed my opinion. I said that we are now more connected and advanced than the Middle Ages, so we have less need for weapons, war, and the killing of innocents just to show our power over others
@mauroines4128
18 күн бұрын
A true criminal, that defendes NWO, and trans-humanism
STOP The GENOCIDE is what we are syaing not get rid of colonial languages
@davereynolds3403
Күн бұрын
But where does the current genocide come from ? Doesn’t it come from the past genocides ? Weren’t there genocides in the Old Testament ? There were tribes … canaanites, amonites, philistines etc back then. The Israelites killed them all - wiped them out. The people of Jericho were killed by Joshua! Judaism has genocide in its DNA so does Christianity (also lays claim to ownership of the Old Testament) Jews and Christians have been ethnic cleansing for 2 & a half thousand years ! Apparently with God’s blessing 🤷🏽♂️ apparently the Jews are God’s chosen people, so god has favorites and prejudices … apprantly God is xenophobic 🤔
@lm58142
Күн бұрын
We? Who is we? Hamas supporters?
Forgiving the injustices of the past ... Great wisdom. But not forgetting.
, “He will show no regard for the gods of his fathers or for the desire of women, nor will he show regard for any other god; for he will magnify himself above them all”
How nice to have this message so close to Empire Day (24 May), Queen Victoria’s birthday.
2:51 How do distinguish between that vs something that seems hypocritical like: "There's not much we can do about what we already did to you. But we can have all the moral outrage in the world if you try to do that to us."
@BanjoSick
20 күн бұрын
How is that hypocritical? Thats just how it is, or do you wanna eradicate Sapiens as revenge for the Neanderthals?
@user-kh1vo2fc6s
14 күн бұрын
He is just a psycho. In the normal circumstances he would be in jail already for spreading fascist ideas. Plus, look at him, if it wasn’t for his Phd he would probably doing something outrageous on the other woods. And we would know about his as Yuval the ripper or smth.
@surrealistidealist
14 күн бұрын
@@user-kh1vo2fc6s Кажется. ❤️🩹🙏
The observation from a Hebrew speaker raises a thought-provoking question about the potential for successful language revitalization efforts to inspire similar movements focused on learning and preserving more specific, often endangered languages. The revival of Hebrew as a spoken language in the late 19th and early 20th centuries is indeed a remarkable example of linguistic and cultural reclamation. Given the Hebrew language's triumphant resurgence, it is worth considering whether this model could serve as a blueprint for other communities seeking to reconnect with and safeguard their linguistic heritage.
@stefanovergari9815
24 күн бұрын
was not "resurgent" national laguages are ingegnerized to create a Nation State, hebrew you talk is an invention, people didn't use this language some decades ago. What happens if i start to use ancient latin to speak, shoudl i revive the roman empire ;-)?
@BanjoSick
24 күн бұрын
I would love for the same to be done for Egypt. Wish for them to throw of the arab shackles so to speak. Of course I know that they are ethnically mixed but so are Ashkenazi jews, being genetically half german Rhinelanders. Would love to hear some Egyptian in Egypt:
@SuperKripke
24 күн бұрын
Including the languages spoken by the Palestinians and arriving Jewish populations like Yiddish and Ladino who were forced to speak the invented Israeli Hebrew.
@amandeepmidha1
24 күн бұрын
Cannot take this fiction historian seriously anymore :-) He from his usual echo chamber was the one saying in 2022 that Russia must be defeated because Ukraine is superior and older civilization, while he stayed silent on destruction of Mesopotamian (Iraq) civilization by US. Plus his continued silence on Israeli illegal occupation and genocide of Palestine continues
@will7409
24 күн бұрын
@@stefanovergari9815Modern Hebrew is sort of like Orwell's Newspeak, particularly because it was created as part of a dystopian monstrosity of a state
Except it has to do nothing with languages...but justice. We can take the good ones, language for e.g. & leave out the bad...such as racism, discrimination, poverty...etc
Sir you'r great Thinker
Dr Yuval, Great point view from postmodernity mindset that past is death and language is part of colonial too .Therefore,we need stop talking another language because is part of colonialism 😂😂 please, can I copy your video??? Thank you 🗽👍👍
@hifistuded
4 күн бұрын
Your profile icon flag is showing what kind of sheeple you are , let me guess you also love Dr. Fauxi 😂
As long as powerful groups *still* think and believe that they're either the chosen ones, the central nation, the pure race etc, we're doomed to repeat history.
@BanjoSick
20 күн бұрын
only if they are wrong
@NicoleBL2
18 күн бұрын
Like who are you talking about? And how did they get their power, by black magic or by being hard working and highly intelligent?
I couldn't agree more
Better throw salt to my own eyes and eat shit than listening to Yuval. How many or you have got it yet?
I like this one: .... they even don't care how we remember them !!
Nelson Mandela already did what Yuhavl Noah Harari is trying to teach us now, and that is why South Africa is at peace with itself now. Forgive, but don't forget. That is the Wisdom.
Forgiving all the injustice in the past? Seriously?
In Spanish is the same colonialismo e imperialismo!!!!
❤from Kerala
esperanto?
@TheMolkenthin
19 күн бұрын
Exactly
So you are saying lets forgive the Holocaust?
I think Yuval is going from intellectual with little bias to a colonial apologist 😢 but I have hope he will recognize his path and change it
@warmperson2007
23 күн бұрын
Yuval Noah Harari has been 100% consistent since his first book, Sapiens.
Colonial legacies are not necessarily negative, and that we cannot simply discard them. However, we also cannot ignore the injustices of the past.nor present.. Many aspects of modern society, like technological advancements, scientific discoveries, and democratic principles, have roots that predate or developed independently of colonial systems. Colonial powers often introduced infrastructure, education systems, and healthcare services that improved living standards in some regions. Additionally, cultural exchange and interaction fostered new forms of art, literature, and music.Do the current colonial powers deliver on this? Does Russia for example? Does Netanjahu? Many countries have achieved significant progress after gaining independence, demonstrating that alternative paths to modernization, colonization is not q requirement for progress.. We should focus on building a more equitable and just future. This involves addressing current challenges like poverty, inequality, oppression, apartheid and environmental degradation. We should recognize the genocidal intent and acts of current leaders. Extermination , forced displacement,, withholding aid water and food, dehumanization of citizens, using food as a weapon, destroying hospitals. We should not use the languague of genocide a la Amalek "kill alike men and women, infants and sucklings" not only because it is inappropriate, but also because it is counter productive.
@12318529
22 күн бұрын
There's absolutely nothing good about Colonialism. Most if not all peoples who were colonised are still struggling today. Among the poorest in Australia, Americas for example are the colonised people. The Indigenous population. Education and infrastructure in Colonialism existed to serve the colonial power and not the colonised.
@yolanbravo9628
17 күн бұрын
Amen to that. The people who benefit from our current economic and social systems due to colonization really have a hard time understanding that there is and has always been a problem with it.
One of the brightest minds of our time!
Great job, since our logic lecture invited us to your speech about the future of humanity on the University of California TV, l was impressed by your speech. Good content. Keep it up. I don't believe in any traditional religion, I wanna be an atheist but the stigmatization is horrible. I am from Ethiopia 🇪🇹.
True words about Forgiving. As a grand child from a Auschwitz victim from one family side and at the same time grand child of a German soldier from the other family side, I wrote a song about this weird story. „Forgiving“ -> kzread.info/dash/bejne/a5x3ra2gocrfnto.htmlsi=XFpEO-fw74q37gG0
@NicoleBL2
18 күн бұрын
I just heard your song. Very beautiful!! I love the melody and interpretation. But it’s not clear though what it is about from the words
@samknarf
18 күн бұрын
@@NicoleBL2 🙏🏻
Forgiving is the part for the victims. Much more importantly, asking for forgiveness and act in accordance with it by the descendents of the colonialists and trying to be just reverting it back. Of course, we can not get rid of the languages, but there should be honest and tangible efforts such as returning stolen artifacts and etc.
@BanjoSick
20 күн бұрын
We start after the Arabs… can’t wait until they turn North Africa back into Christian realms. We will turn them back into pagans the next day and pay for the recreation of native languages. Can’t wait for the Turks to hand over their country to Greece and move back to steppes. Then the Greecs will rebuild Troy and teach the Anatolians the Hittite language. So dumb
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There are differnt views about justice. Most impires were build on certain ideology and they wanted to spread it, but collonialism is different because its more about gaining not changing. You also mentioned injustice and said that we should not repeat. Well said. However, what is injustice? Does everyone believe in the same moral of justice? Short answer is no. Imperialism kinda wants to make people to believe in certain "justice", but thay have been failing and it is not a good way to do it. What I think is that we should be more tolerant rather than teaching each other what is good or bad
Ok, Yuval, most of the time I agree with you. But this time I have to desagree. Of course, we speak english and spanish and french. The problem is that, colonialism, is not exactly a thing of the past. In many minds and in many parts of the world, the concept and practice of explotation and power control, is alive and well. I think it is still a part of our present and, hopefully, will not be a part of our future...
@maria9567
23 күн бұрын
@@OriginalOogway Harari is completely opposed to Bibi and especially the messianic rightwingers and has Bibi the worst Jewish leader of ALL TIME, not just present day Israel. He is 100% on point here.
@maria9567
22 күн бұрын
@@OriginalOogway His immediate context for this statement is the indomitable neo-colonialist mentality of the "progressive" West - to which they themselves are oblivious. But he is also talking about Israel/Palestine, and saying that parsing through the narratives where every single fact about the past is told in opposing ways by the two people makes a lot less sense than moving forward and working for peace in the present and the future. This is the only way forward for the region - and it's the colonialist mindsets from the screaming western kids, from H*m*s, because they are absolutely colonial in their thinking, from Ben Gvir, from some Arab states, that push for more violence. In the end, Harari's point is: the cycle of violence never stops. Victims become oppressors, the oppressors become victims. It will never end, until they all die, both sides, unless people start focusing on the present and the common future.
@zeddybear257
13 күн бұрын
@@maria9567 Yes, and we can do better being aware of ourselves moving forward since not doing so has brought us to this and continuing down this path will bring further harm. Our world has become uncomfortable enough and with insight and restraint it’s possible to improve.
@ATR-ur5ov
9 күн бұрын
Another brainwashed, get some pills.
It's always good to listen to Yuval Noah Harari. He sets the record straight in a world that sometimes goes crazy. If you feel confused and lost in this woke jungle, read Yuval Harari and your ideas become clear again. Harari is THE doctor for people who feel they loose control.
When you are one of the most woke people on the planet and even that doesn't stop the radical mob trying to 'decolonise' you
THE ARABIC EMPIRE?!
I feel very sad and very anxious thinking that the story of the humans on the Earth can never change. Century after century. Today, the human fury that brings wars can be a big dangerous for every living being. This is the time for a new beautiful story, a very beautiful story will happen and brings peace. Peace inside of all the hearts, peace on Earth.That story will origin a new begin, witch will give rising to others beautiful stories all over the world, and finally, it will be the end of the previous narrative. Finally all the childrens will smile and will knew that on 2024 a story of peace, hapenned and never more existed no kind of colonization or war on Earth. Thank you for the opportunity to write here ❤
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I'm such a huge fan of Yuval. I genuinely agree with his perspectives, but on this, the situation it is far more complex. It's just so easy for the victors of colonialism to say forgive & forget. Well I will be willing to forgive and forget when the ancestors of victims of colonialism are given the same opportunities and privileges as the ancestors victors.
@Moonlight96543
23 күн бұрын
You already have more privileges than the people your ancestors colonized, you just don't know much about it because that history was either never written or repressed.
what about salmon runs?
I'm a colonist. You're a colonist. We're all colonist. We've all been colonialiized
I would make a lecture named "Why we are all stupid and WEF puppets", only to mention the name of Yuval Harari at the end as being stupid and a WEF puppet.
After reading all the comments up to this moment on this post, isn't it nice to have someone who actually makes you think about things? AND is fine if you posses an opposing idea or mind-set. You go Yuval!
Beautiful message ! Thank You !
@djberke
22 күн бұрын
@@OriginalOogway nope, you've missed the point entirely
Sir, I finished Sapiens yesterday evening, and bought Homo Deus yesterday afternoon. I respect you immensely. The comments on these KZread shorts often come from people who get the sum total of their information from 10 second sound bites and social media. Sadly, the Legions of the Uninformed judge you and make idiotic remarks when they haven't opened a history book since the day they barely graduated high school, with its watered-down curriculum, making comments about an author they have never even read. It's hard for me to see you raked over the coals by people who have no clue what an awesome historian you are, truely one of the best I have ever experienced. I wish you had been my professor.
Yuval, thank you for telling the truth - hopefully you will be listened to, hopefully it will not be turned against you.
Ahmmm ok ...
in the future?sounds so far away, how about now?
Nurnberg 2.0.
Open borders promotes colonialism. It seems to be one way though. Why aren’t they sending or promoting western cultures migrate to the Middle East etc?
@WillCarrollHamilton
24 күн бұрын
Um, most the population of israel is immigrants.
Thank you Yuval. Thoughtful
yeah, some realise that the nakba will forever be wrong and only a reversal can lead to peace
@fir3drag0n1984
24 күн бұрын
I think peace starts with the truth. by "Nakba" you mean the war started by the Arabs in 1947 and subsequent fleeing and explosion of 700,000 Arabs. Call it that - A war.
Great wisdom. Thank you.
💚Learn Esperanto!!! Our only way to fight cultural imperialism
WEF goin'down.
国家の存在目的は経済発展では無い
I think apology should come first before forgiveness.
@RS-uh7rz
24 күн бұрын
Speaking only for myself - I find it's important not to wait for an apology. My happiness depends on forgiveness and gratitude.
@Dowinohue
24 күн бұрын
Acknowledging the breath and depth of the harm created by those in the past, along with the impacts of the ripples that have continued on…. Is essential. Forgiveness requires feeling heard and seen… acknowledgment.
@sdksdksdk
24 күн бұрын
no one alive today should have to apologize for our ancestors... it's called the past, let's focus on the present and the future
@Dowinohue
24 күн бұрын
@@sdksdksdk right.. let focus on the present, let’s identify how the decisions and actions of our ancestors have negatively impacted the present, acknowledge those negative impacts on humanity and society, and use that as ways to improve things for the future. It isn’t about apologizing, it’s about acknowledging and understanding.
@juampi92
24 күн бұрын
@@sdksdksdk it's not as easy as that. One usually doesn't ask for forgiveness if there wasn't anyone favored by the outcome. In this case, the colonizer built their empire out of the slavery, abuse and oppression of the colonized, and that inequality persists today. Forgiveness is a way to acknowledge the unfairness, even if you didn't do it yourself, but your ancestors.
Deception
Dude… you’re on your own with this one. Sounds more like a confession to me
@Reel___
24 күн бұрын
You missed the entire point. Or, you're just a bot.
@zaramalik1017
24 күн бұрын
@@Reel___I’m not a bot. But I’ve noticed that a LOT of people online who support Israel’s genocidal onslaught against Gaza do seem to think I’m “just a bot“, because of their cognitive dissonance.
You are the best Yuval 💐💕
#IT
pero hay que saber que la lengua que hablamos es una lengua imperialista a pesar de ser descendientes de los colonizados, saber la maldición que significa esto para nuestra herencia, ser descendientes tanto de los colonizadores y de los colonizados, de los asesinos y las victimas, y no reivindicar legados criminales y genocidas sino condenarlos siempre
@rasmussonderriis
8 күн бұрын
¿Dices por la imposición del latin en España por parte del Imperio Romano?
We can acknowledge the harm created by imperialism and colonialism, without the naivety that we can make things back to how they once were. We can say… that was wrong. That doesn’t mean we expect to reverse everything that was done. Bc of the actions of those in the past, we have new cultures that exist, we have new demographics and societies…. People are born where they are born, without choice, without fault. Of course we can hold people of today accountable to the actions of others. However, we can acknowledge the impacts and effects of those decisions, and make new choices on how to love forward from here. If we focus on the present and future…. Israel has all the power and is slaughtering children… they’ve already done it, it’s in the past…. However those responsible are still alive today. A man rapes a woman… both are still alive, she’s suffering the trauma of that experience…. You want us to just forgive him? Bc we can’t fix it? Just take it as a reminder that we need to try to prevent rapists in the future. Forgiveness has to be earned… does it not?
Thank you sir for linking history with change.... Law of Change ,anitya ... Vipassana
no, we are not all . Many are just colonized. Like the people in Ghaza right now
@zahariachirica5466
23 күн бұрын
That's the truth he is trying hard to avoid.
@kentimmins9171
21 күн бұрын
Bulkshit Bro
@BanjoSick
20 күн бұрын
The People of Gaza are the Arabs. Their ancestors were one of if not the most merciless colonial overlords and slavers in history. Where they went they destroyed local customs, language and culture. Not only arn’t they ashamed of itTo this day that is their greatest pride
@mfre897
9 күн бұрын
People in Gaza could have their free land since 1990 during a peace process negotiated by President Clinton. Palestinian leader Arafat and Hamas refused, dreaming the delusional dream to destroy Israel: "From the River to the sea". To claim colonializm is real about Iran Colonialism over Hamas Gaza.
Arn’t the Jews and Arabs the children of Abraham ?
He should read the Territorial Imperative by Roger Ardrey, 'place' may not be a genetic instinct but the connection of people to place, to home, is extremely strong and probably extremely important in terms of our security. If Harari didnt have the support of every despot in the world I might take him more seriously. nah.
Genocide appologist telling us about colonialism.
@zahariachirica5466
23 күн бұрын
'Genocide apologist'...That's what he really is.
@iachtulhu1420
15 күн бұрын
Absolutely.
you are wrong .... we are all not colonialist ... it is only a powerful rich minority which thinks like that ... our democratic system needs to evolve in order to minimize that minority's impact ...
@fir3drag0n1984
24 күн бұрын
Your comment is written in English, just the example Prof Harari gave 😂 oh my god no wonder the world looks like it is now...
@va-ro
24 күн бұрын
@@fir3drag0n1984 name calling implies lack of argument and excess of bullying tendency ....
@johannahandersen8517
23 күн бұрын
Actually it is true, one cannot simply quit colonialism while still living under settler-colonialism capitalism because that doesn't stop how it's written into modern society's written and unwritten laws.
@fir3drag0n1984
23 күн бұрын
@@johannahandersen8517 would you give the "conialism" bs a rest. There is no colonialism today. We are al justl couch potatoes watching the same Netflix shows. If you feel you need to do something go and volunteer in a pet shelter or help an old lady cross the street .
@johannahandersen8517
23 күн бұрын
@@fir3drag0n1984just because you dont know what the word means doesnt mean it isn't a subject there isn't plenty of literature available about, if you were actually interested in educating yourself and not just seeking an argument in a comment section.
You are way out there and insane.
The dead don't care any more but they did care. Do we care only to live now? Well some do, but if we care for more than the now, why do our concerns cease mattering later? The now is inherited from the then, we should pay respect to that heritage. There are many biases that can be connected to a lack of care for dead concerns, even a bias to make the living dead, to rid us of concern for their concerns... It seems untenable. If you say we should only care abiut the living and the future, to some degree we restrict reasons to live for tomorrow, we limit our trust for today. We limit our potential. Therefore, the full virtue and justice care about the dead, care about what they cared abiut, care about their truths, care about their efforts, their investments, their lessons and their reasons. Care doesn't mean worship, obedience or constraining ourselves. It means treating the voice of the past as if it still speaks today among the living. Speaking to that voice like we speak to each other, even in disagreement.
POV: You find out, as an Israeli, your whole nation is a colonial project.
@warmperson2007
23 күн бұрын
You definitely misuse the word "colonial". It's not because there are illegal settlements in the West bank, that some people sometimes like to call "colonies", that Israel is "colonialst".
@12318529
22 күн бұрын
@@warmperson2007what's the correct use of the word "Colonial" in this case?
@warmperson2007
22 күн бұрын
@@12318529 Colonialist powers : England, France, Spain, Portugal, The Netherlands, Belgium, etc. It's when you have a mainland, called a "metropole", invading a far away country for the purpose of stealing it's ressources. Israel does not enter in this category. (Unless you want to consider Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem as the "mainland" and Ramallah, Jenine, Nablus as the "colonized"). Let's just call it "occupation". Furthermore, there are no ressources in the West Bank that the israeli sttlers are luring. All they want is the land without its inhabitants. They want the arabs of the West Bank to move 30 kilometers more East into Jordan. Mostly for security reasons. Sometimes for religious, messianic and mystical reasons. The use of word "colonialism" in this context is completely wrong.
@user-rg2ge9dz9w
22 күн бұрын
Exactly!
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I am ignorant but it seems to me there is only one religion that really insists on intimidatory behaviour to expand and maintain its dominance. Not to say that people of other religions have not chosen to do that, but it does seem that violence is codified and acted upon in one more than others.
@warmperson2007
23 күн бұрын
I see two religions that do that : Christianity and Islam.
@silotx
22 күн бұрын
You are ignorant there is no but 😂.
@trstnmxc23
17 күн бұрын
Christianity, right?
@warmperson2007
17 күн бұрын
@@trstnmxc23 Islam also I guess.
Yeah, especially when you invade other people's land
@zahariachirica5466
23 күн бұрын
That of the West Bank for instance....
@surajchauhan6483
14 күн бұрын
This guys is another level of human. While he helps his country butcher innocent men, women & children in the neighbourhood, he also finds enough hypocrisy to make a video; lecturing the world about humanity !
this is a misleading debate : don't change society just make sure that land is returned to the landlords all the rest is just tools same as internet we're using to communicate 😮
So forgive the Nazis and Hamas then! Hypocrite nonsense!
@TheEd0206
24 күн бұрын
The irony is that you're saying this in ENglish, a colonial language.
@TheEd0206
24 күн бұрын
Well if you watched his other videos he did say that the Jews and Germans are now good friends and it's a good thing. He also said that the Palestinians deserved to live in their own country in peace.
@fir3drag0n1984
24 күн бұрын
Maybe after hamas, are in the same state of living as the ancient people mentioned by Prof Harari :)
@ceeemm1901
23 күн бұрын
@@TheEd0206 Is that gunna be the new "Get out of Jail Free Card"/ Mike drop/ BOOM line now, is it?
Nobody is suggesting to erase all traces of colonialism! in fact the movement is not to erase but not to forget legacies of colonial atrocities, forgiving is not the same as forgetting. what you are saying in terms of language etc are obvious, and shouldn't even be critical par of the discussion , of course few aspects of colonialism are not as harmful eg. language, food/culinary/ architecture/ technology. If you are saying hat present is more important, then say Israel should stop colonizing Palestine, that should be the more important point of discussion,
But colonization never ended. Nice try tho, buddy.
@ceeemm1901
23 күн бұрын
Colonialism did end. But the colonialists just handed the keys to the Corporations on the way out. Different owners, same oppression and piracy...
They are currently committing crimes against humanity like 🤬
@Reel___
24 күн бұрын
Who?
The best❤
You are going to move people from Gaza to Europe, America and Canada, no thanks we don't want them, make your new Riviera somewhere other than Gaza.
@stefanovergari9815
24 күн бұрын
he was more vocal when before the conflict was admitting that the palestinians were used to test the military and control technology of Usrael
@trstnmxc23
17 күн бұрын
@@stefanovergari9815 What happened? Why not vocal now when we are turning to him as someone we can trust?
Yuval, why are you taking a backseat on the genocide that’s happening in Gaza? We can understand your position early in this conflict, but after what the world has seen from the IDF’s disregard for the international law the repeated intentional targeting of innocent people and bagging about it over and over. I see you held into a position early on and never changed it, despite what happened. As a man of history, you are equipped to see where this is going and how history look at those who choose to stand on the wrong side. People look up to you. Please don’t disappoint them!
@iachtulhu1420
15 күн бұрын
He's a puppet and an imperialist propagandist.
@surajchauhan6483
14 күн бұрын
Have you ever seen him talk or write about Nakba ? This guy is a fraud historian. He is a colonial stooge at the best, pretty good at it though.
This guy speaks absolute facts
This coming from a guy who is not speaking out against a genocide actively taking place.
@earthtribe786
24 күн бұрын
he doesn't consider Palestinians to be human.
@djberke
24 күн бұрын
It will be appropriate for him to speak out about the genocide committed against the Israelis on 10/7 and their ongoing attempt to retrieve those who were kidnapped in the process, from the genocidal terrorist death cult.
@thecount1001
24 күн бұрын
he has said plenty. you aren't listening. that's on you.
@ceeemm1901
23 күн бұрын
@@djberke What "genocide" committed against the Israelis on 10/7? It was a hit and run attack! Formosessake! Do you know what the fn word means? So if a Jew loses a barroom fight, it's "genocide"? If a Jew gets killed in a car crash with a gentile and it's not his fault. it's genocide? Dude stop milking the word into meaninglessness!
@djberke
23 күн бұрын
@@OriginalOogway Have you ever read his books? He's a perfectly kind and decent person, at least, we don't know him personally but that's what I've seen. You take care!
This guy is stating whole lotta nothing 😂 he’s profound to sheep
Is this the way to cope? What does this have to do with your country’s starving people ?
Speak for yourself!
Are you trying to demolish the justice system Yuval? :)
“A wrong concept kills more than an army…” Angel Livraga Yuval is trapped in his own made-up fiction. Apparently he forgot the 21st lesson of his own book. But still to time to work yourself brother. I believe in you.
I will forgive but I will never forget, I'll make sure you won't forget either.
Wow, what an erudite scholar and ignorer of the elephant in the room.
@varunachar87
21 күн бұрын
Actually, he rode the elephant into the room.
@NicoleBL2
18 күн бұрын
I think you are one big elephant except you don’t have their intelligence
Hi Yuval, remember me? 😁 So basically what you are saying is that we should have a world without God! riiiight
@goarmysleepinthemud.
3 күн бұрын
the gawd of the sand desert religions is not for westerners and must be removed.
He has been nice a quiet about the Genocide going on in Gaza!!!!
@fir3drag0n1984
24 күн бұрын
maybe because there is no genocide in Gaza there is a war with isis like Islamist organization
@thecount1001
24 күн бұрын
no he has not. clearly, you don't watch or listen to him. he despises Netanyawhoever and has been warning against him for years. open your ears man.
@rbotnic
24 күн бұрын
Agreed, he has not been silent on Gaza at all. Yuval has been continually discussing the terrible situation in the region both pre & post Oct 7th (and has been publicly calling out the terrible, current government in Israel for years).
@gama69ful
24 күн бұрын
@@rbotnic you should read my comment again! I am very well aware of his views on Netanyahu but has he condemned the Genocide happening in Gaza like many other Jewish academics or has he been shying away from using the words Genocide or ethic cleansing!?
Free Palestine anyway
Free Palestine🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸