Settler Moves to Innocence: A Transnational Legal Glossary - by Azeezah Kanji

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Settler Moves to Innocence: A Transnational Legal Glossary - by Azeezah Kanji

13 Apr 2023

Untitled YELLOWHEAD BRIEF #133 | APRIL 13, 2023 Settler Moves to Innocence: A Transnational Legal Glossary by Azeezah Kanji ACROSS THE GEOGRAPHY of the colonial present, recent of colonial aggression laid bare in recent days yet again events highlight how the settler’s “rule of law” serves by Israeli forces’ naked brutalization of Palestinian more to enforce the law of settler rule, predicated on. [...] or while immobile on the ground; and that Indigenous people charged with “assaulting” Denitional Gerrymandering: Another way of writing colonial atrocities out of legal Canadian police o昀케cers were the targets of existence is by restricting the scope of what is legally police brutality, not the instigators. [...] no need to ratify the Convention Against Torture at all, because according to India’s representative to the UN, “the Inversion of Guilt (Appeal to “Self-Defence”): concept of torture is completely alien to our culture and it at Indigenous peoples’ true “oence” is their failure to has no place in the governance of the nation.” Apparently, submit to colonial domination and die o, is indicated the me. [...] neglected them — echoing the 19th-century medical ocials who wrote o the alarming Indigenous mortality Deputization: rates in Canadian prisons by explaining that “the Indians As the exculpation of Gerald Stanley illustrates, the cannot bear connement as well as whites or Chinese.” ambit of impunity extends to private civilians, deputized as subcontractors of the state’s claimed “monopoly on Self-S. [...] In Israel, out of the few settler prosecutions for most important reality emerging from the evidence is targeting Palestinians, almost one-fth end with a nding the complete absence of racism, malice or bad faith on of “guilt without a conviction” — meaning “the court the part of police […] Mr.
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