It is not just when settler violence against Palestinians goes unpunished.
My research about early Canberra led me to stories of violence against the Aboriginal people of the Limestone Plains: the Aboriginal people speared the stock; the shepherds, convict workers and the settler masters "took" and raped the women, leading to reprisal and counter-reprisal.
The conflicts involved colonial police and soldiers, settler militias and raiding parties.
Many, like Kanabygal, were victims of frontier violence between tribesmen – defending traditional lands on the pastoral frontier – and colonial troops, paramilitary police forces, settler militia and raiding parties.
Complaints have been lodged with a human rights watchdog after Zuma blamed South Africa's ills on the country's first white settler, Jan van Riebeeck, a Dutch administrator who opened the way for European colonisation.
Among them was usually right-leaning Ben-Dror Yemini, writing in the newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, who noted that Netanyahu has spoken not at a Likud rally but at one representing largely settler and national religious interests.
Aslan-Levy, who was born and brought up in Britain, said he is keen for the Palestinian conflict to be settled diplomatically and disagrees with the settler movement and its representatives, such as Dani Dayan, who spoke at the union last Friday.
The "danger of whiteness studies" is, as settler colonialism scholar Sam Markwell recently said: [It] emerged alongside the fields of critical race and ethnic studies.
See articleIsrael thumbed its nose at the UN General Assembly's vote to recognise Palestine as a non-member observer state, by pushing ahead with plans to build 3,000 settler homes on part of the West Bank that would cut across any future sovereign Palestinian state.
The area is heavily policed with floodlit observation posts and army checkpoints, plus settler vigilantes who routinely vandalise, and sometimes burn, Palestinian properties.In immediate reprisal for the ambush, the Israeli army razed several Palestinian houses on the site.
Some say that at least 12,000 of them have left since 1967.The Israeli settler lobby argues that most of the land where settlers reside in Hebron was anyway not privately owned by Palestinians; some of it has been confiscated for military purposes; some was state land (under the Ottoman and other later authorities); and some was owned by Jews who lived there until the 1930s.
