Frantz Fanon, geboren 1925 auf Martinique, wurde zu einem der wichtigsten Denker und Akteur der antikolonialen Befreiung. Zum 100. Geburtstag Fanons sprachen wir mit der Abolitionistin Vanessa E. Thom...

<article data-history-node-id="423775" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/war-gaza-why-frantz-fanons-words-are-more-relevant-today-ever-opinion" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/war-gaza-why-frantz-fanons-words-are-more-relevant-today-ever-opinion" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">War on Gaza: Why Frantz Fanon's words are more relevant today than ever: Opinion</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israel’s ongoing violence against&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinians</a>, including the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/meaning-definition-what-genocide-israel-gaza" target="_blank">genocide</a>&nbsp;in Gaza, have left many searching for historical and moral frameworks to make sense of the brutality.&nbsp;</p> <p>The works of Martinique-born anti-colonial psychiatrist&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/what-frantz-fanon-can-tell-us-about-wests-colonial-war-gaza" target="_blank">Frantz Fanon</a>&nbsp;from the mid-20th century offer a valuable tool. Although none of his major works directly address&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israel</a>’s colonisation of Palestine, they offer timeless observations about the axioms of political and armed struggle within the context of decolonisation.</p> <p>From a Fanonian perspective, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/israel-war-gaza" target="_blank">war on Gaza</a>&nbsp;is fundamentally a colonial war, coming decades after Europeans shattered and displaced a pre-existing community from their land.&nbsp;</p> <p>Better known as the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/nakba" target="_blank">Nakba</a>, the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine led to the destruction of around 530 villages and towns, as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2017/5/23/the-nakba-did-not-start-or-end-in-1948" target="_blank">750,000 Palestinians</a>&nbsp;were made refugees to facilitate the creation of Israel.</p> <p>The Nakba was not an isolated historical moment, but the foundation of a continuing project. Today, 77 years later, Palestinians continue to endure siege, bombing and deprivation - conditions made possible by a Zionist ideology that sees them not as human beings, but as obstacles.</p> <h3><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-gaza-why-frantz-fanons-words-are-more-relevant-today-ever">Read more:&nbsp;War on Gaza: Why Frantz Fanon's words are more relevant today than ever: Opinion by Ismail Patel</a></h3> <div alt="Palestinian boy Israeli bombardment Khan Younis" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="ac256763-1e08-442c-85dd-26ce219764fb" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/images-story/palestine-gaza-khan-younis-hospital-july-2024-bashar-taleb-afp.jpg" width="957" height="538" alt="Palestinian boy Israeli bombardment Khan Younis" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> </div> </div> </article>