Decolonizing Terrorism: The Culture-Centered Approach and the Mechanics of Settler Colonial Silencing
The Zionist Free Speech Union Board Member Dane Giraud appearing on the far-right media space The Platform In an era where the language of "terrorism" is weaponized to maintain power imbalances, the CCA offers a powerful lens for understanding how settler colonial structures perpetuate violence. It illuminates the ways in which settler colonial terror operates—not just through physical acts of dispossession and genocide, but through communicative strategies that label critical voices as "terror" itself. This communicative inversion lies at the heart of the global propaganda networks of Zionism. This blog post explores this dynamic, drawing on the theoretical framework to show how such naming is integral to reproducing and perpetuating settler colonial terrorism. Ultimately, it calls for culture-centered scholarship that decolonizes terrorism studies by centering the voices of the marginalized and naming the role of settler colonial terror in sustaining genocide, ra...