From Healing through Palestinian Jewish Solidarity: Hadar Cohen – Into Healing S1, Ep.4:
“What is colonization? It's a lot of things… but one way I like to think about it is that it's a separation of the body from the land, right? It's this rupture that happens between people and land. And the body and the land is the most powerful connection one can have. And when you are literally ruptured at your root, you are destabilized. You are destabilized spiritually, you are destabilized ancestrally, and you lose your power. Because the land is your anchor.
We're living in a time of massive global displacement, and colonization, and so many issues in our global world. […] Hannah Arendt, which I think everyone should read everything she's written. But she really predicted everything that would happen now. And she was writing in the '40s—she's a German Jew. And as the State of Israel was created, she wrote letters to all the Jewish leaders at that time. She said, the Jews are not psychologically fit for a state right now. If they do this, it's going to turn into disaster and into a totalitarian fascist regime.
In the '40s—imagine that, coming out of the Holocaust. In the leftist Jewish community, we always have this slogan: ‘Arendt was right.’ And I don’t think it's particular to Jewish people. People who've suffered oppression— we can't just return to the land and then it's fine. We actually need to go through a process of reckoning with the psychology of oppression, with the spiritual return.”
