The United States – like other Anglo-settler states, including Israel – was built on a settler ideology which centers around racial and ethnic oppression and outright genocide against the indigenous people, says Dennis Etler, an American political analyst who has a decades-long interest in international affairs.
In an interview with Press TV on Wednesday, Etler, a former professor of Anthropology at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California, suggested that Zionism is the version of this core settler ideology that was used by the Israelis against the Palestinians, which helps to explain the Zionist orientation of the United States.
“As a settler state the US, like other Anglo-settler states, including Israel, has a core ideology of manifest destiny, racial and ethnic oppression, and outright genocide against the indigenous people they encounter and oust during their colonial conquests. This core settler ideology is indistinguishable from Zionism…