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(LifeSiteNews) — On this week’s episode of The Van Maren Show, Jonathon explores the implications of the left’s use of Marxist language in the wake of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
While the language used by Marxists in academia was never concretely defined, despite its use becoming more and more commonplace over the past several years, Jonathon points to the use of words like “decolonization” and “settler” by academics in both Canadian and American universities in reaction to the Israel-Hamas conflict. He does so to posit what these words may mean.
After examining tweet after tweet from academics and politicians responding to the conflict, Jonathon concludes one thing: “These are terms that are used to justify bloodshed.” According to Jonathon, these terms should be unequivocally rejected, maintaining that they are not at all “benign” and carry “real implications for our discourse.”
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Examining what was said in the tweets in detail, Jonathon notes that the normal response is that what happened to the Israelis attacked by Hamas at a music festival on October 7 was something they deserved as “settlers” in a region that belongs to the Palestinians and is a natural part of “decolonization.” He also posits that the widespread availability of videos of the attack means it is “impossible for anybody to be unaware of what they are defending when they use these terms.”
Reacting to the mass of tweets, Jonathon says, “We have professors from the most prestigious Canadian universities now saying that the process of decolonization can absolutely include the murder of civilians, the rape of women and children, the abduction of entire families, the destruction of entire families. They are telling us what they mean when they use these words. And these words are incredibly common.”
Midway through the episode, Jonathon also looks at the terms used in light of the residential schools story, recounting that as of this past July, over 80 churches have been subject to arson since the story broke. He recalls that academics justified the arson and that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s friend and former adviser Gerald Butts said it was “understandable” why these churches were burned to the ground.
“You had a lot of equivocation and an enormous amount of either hesitation or outright resistance to condemning the widespread… destruction of Christian churches across the country. Why? Because this was part of ‘decolonization.’ Why? Because these churches were a ‘settler’ religion and many of them were constructed by or attended by people they would call ‘settlers,’” Jonathon states.
“[T]here is no form of violence that these academics are not willing to defend. And… when they use the terminology that has seeped almost entirely through our federal government and completely dominates the prevailing view in… academia, that these are just revolutionary terms that they use to justify any form of revolutionary violence, and when we force them to look at photographs, at video footage of abductions and rape and the slaughter, the butchering of civilians… they’re still willing to say ‘This is what decolonization looks like,’” Jonathon contends. “When somebody says, ‘I can’t believe civilians got killed,’ and a professor at Yale University… comes out and says, ‘Settlers aren’t civilians,’ what they’ve done is they’ve un-personed you.”
“What they mean is that if you were a ‘settler,’ ‘decolonization’ can happen to you,” he continued. “What does that look like? Burned churches, destroyed families… burning people alive in their homes, which, by the way, happened many times in Israel during the Hamas incursion.”
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