In his clearly written, concise little work , Adam Kirsch has done for settler colonialism what John Fonte did for “transnational progressivism” at the turn of the century, Peter W. Wood and Phillip W. Magness did for The 1619 Project in 2020, and Joshua Mitchell, James Lindsay, and Christopher Rufo did for Critical Race Theory and DEI in the early 2020s. He has taken the latest iteration of Leftist ideology and dissected it, retracing its academic origins and conceptual developments and connecting them to activists and contemporary events, starting with 2024’s anti-Israel campus “protests” that erupted even before Israel’s response to October 7, 2023. With these well-funded and organized protests, a constellation of theorists, writers, and teacher-activists, along with their youthful minions, revealed itself to the general public. The Left was on the march again, protesting what it deemed the deepest form of injustice, the “original sin” of modern history and politics, “settler colonialism,” while justifying the most heinous violations of moral and international law.
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