Dismantling Green Colonialism

Abstract

Israel has portrayed pre-1948 Palestine as an empty, parched desert, and has suggested that after the establishment of the State of Israel that parched desert became a blooming oasis.¹ For Israel and its supporters, what surrounds that oasis is a fearsome, degraded and arid Middle East that is sinking in primitiveness and backwardness.² Israel’s green image, which is set in contrast to a savage and undemocratic Middle East, has been central to its efforts to greenwash its settler colonial and apartheid structure. Israel uses its expertise in agribusiness, afforestation, water solutions and renewable energy technology as constituents of its greenwashing