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How colonialist depictions of Palestinians feed western ideas of eastern 'barbarism'

By Elizabeth Vibert, Professor of Colonial History, University of Victoria

The dismissal of Palestinians as “barbaric” or somehow less human is rooted in a long history of colonizing narratives, including how the land and people were first viewed as “uncivilized.”

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