Talk by the author Thomas Suárez in Burlington on April 15th, 2024
"Dispossession and Expulsion from the River to the Sea:
The Endgame of Israel's 76-year war of Terror"

At the University of Vermont - Recording here
This is a better quality recording of Justifying Slaughter: How the Cult of Messianic Zionism Conquered the West at UMass-Amherst on April 16, 2024 (very similar to his talk in Burlington - Youtube transcript here.) He addressed the historical roots of Israel's ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine, the complicity of Western governments in manufacturing consent to the continuing horrors unfolding in Gaza and the West Bank, and what it will take to fundamentally transform Israel's current apartheid policies and liberate the Palestinian people.

Both at UVM and UMass he presented and uncompromising and refreshingly insightful analysis of the 'marketing' of the Zionist narrative and its 'brand'.

The Israel-Palestine "conflict" is typically misunderstood to be a clash between two ethnic groups - Arabs and Jews - inhabiting the same land. Thomas Suárez digs deep below these preconceptions and supporting "narratives" to expose something starkly different: The violent take-over of Palestine by a European racial-nationalist settler movement, Zionism, using terror to assert by force a claim to the land that has no legal or moral basis.
Drawing extensively from original source documents, Suárez interweaves secret intelligence reports, newly-declassified military and diplomatic correspondence, and the Zionist terrorists' own records boasting of their successes. The use of terror was wide-spread, deliberate and sustained, whose same leaders then established and led the Israeli state. The book proves that Israel's regime of expropriation and Apartheid against the Palestinians are not the result of complex historical circumstances, but the intended, singular goal of Zionism since its beginning.

Thomas Suárez is author of Palestine Hijacked: How Zionism Forged an Apartheid State from River to Sea. He is a London-based historical researcher and former West Bank resident. He devoted several years to researching poorly-tapped and newly-declassified historical archives to compile this story.
Link to a talk by the author on YouTube.

Sponsored by VTJP, UVM SJP, Vermont Coalition for Palestinian Liberation, and Will Miller Social Justice Lecture Series.