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Settler meaning
Someone who settles in a new location, especially one who takes up residence in a previously uninhabited place; a colonist. | Someone who decides or settles something, such as a dispute. | That which settles or finishes, such as a blow that decides a contest.
Example sentences (20)
This can be understood as a “settler move to innocence,” to use Tuck and Yang’s term. A settler move to innocence is a move by which a settler attempts to reconcile their settler guilt.
As cultures blended in the early 19th century, a number of Cherokee assimilated into the white settler culture: putting up English-style housing, adopting white settler farming techniques, and in some cases establishing plantations.
Accounts about the “Indian Wars” in Utah are told almost exclusively from a settler perspective, with plenty of omissions and half-truths.
Also on Tuesday, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant spoke on the phone with top Palestinian official Hussein Al Sheikh on the recent incidents in the West Bank, including the Eli attack and settler violence.
An Israeli Jew in Tel Aviv is, by the understandings of those who think Israel itself it illegitimate, no matter its borders or leadership, a settler.
A screenshot from a video shared on social media shows an Israeli settler using a club to attack Palestinians and foreign hikers, near the West Bank city of Jericho on January 13, 2022.
A US State Department spokesman described the reports of Wednesday's settler rampage as "troubling", adding that Washington was "deeply concerned" by the rising violence in the West Bank.
Being against a racist, settler-colonialist state does not mean you hate Jews.
Daniella Weiss, another settler leader, told Kan public radio that the ministers' participation in the march could be a ''therapy for the government to free yourselves from the dictates of the U.S. and Europe'' concerning West Bank settlement.
Furthermore, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, near Duma village, a group of Palestinians fell victim to an Israeli settler attack, causing injuries among them.
However, such a view focused on individuals, albeit one with considerable power, obscures the systemic nature of settler colonialism.
In Canada, there are discussions about how to reverse colonial norms maintained by a “settler” mentality.
In recent decades, Israeli settlements in the West Bank have expanded under successive governments, with the settler population surpassing half a million people earlier this year.
Instead they need humanitarian assistance because of settler violence and the failure of Israeli authorities to hold perpetrators accountable,” the UN OCHA report said.
Israeli authorities welded shut the doors and sealed the windows of the home of the family of Friday’s synagogue shooter, whose grandfather, the family said, was killed by an Israeli settler 25 years ago.
It continued to discuss settler colonialism and made calls for action against Israel without mentioning Hamas or the many Israeli lives lost in the Oct. 7 attack.
It is impossible to extricate Hitler’s mission from the long project of European colonialism, or the particular expression it found in U.S. settler-colonialism.
Like the US, Israel is a settler colonial state.
Many on the Israeli right view the country’s judiciary, which in reality has the very existence and expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, as hostile to the settler movement.
Ms Zai, a Palestinian who has family in the West Bank, said they were under threat from “Israeli settler violence”.