Michael Rubin (@mrubin1971) is a contributor to the Washington Examiner's Beltway Confidential blog.
Indigenous land statements, acknowledgment of peoples who lived on the land in centuries past, first became popular in Australia three decades ago as a way to push back upon the conceit that Australia was"territory without a master" prior to its colonization. Such statements have since spread to Canada and grow increasingly popular on U.S. university campuses.
Put aside the virtue signaling of the land statements, or the fallacy of seeing land ownership as anything but fluid over the centuries. Native American tribes fought each other brutally, ethnically cleansed, and often enslaved each other.The settler-colonial rubric is also false. Jews are an indigenous people in the land Romans renamed Palestine to punish the rebellious Jews.
Those who prioritize academic theory over reality might insist each population represents settler-colonists. They may also argue that multigenerational societies, even those like Israel created by the United Nations, are illegitimate under international law. Enter Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland who was a U.N. high commissioner for human rights, oversaw a resolution that condoned"all available means, including armed struggle," to establish a Palestinian state.
Ivy League schools are cloistered on the best of days; few are as worldly as they imagine. Progressives might justify the land acknowledgment ritual to atone out of a sense of historical guilt or their own notion of social justice, but the idea that they do no harm is false.
Michael Rubin is a contributor to the Washington Examiner's Beltway Confidential. He is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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