Netanyahu’s Genocidal Religious Rhetoric isn’t Just an Appeal to the Israeli Right — He Has Another Constituency in Mind
…inely inspired genocide by describing Native Americans as “Ammonites” and “Indian Amalekites.” In his racial taxonomy, drawing on the Curse of Ham/Canaan mythos, Mather believed the surviving Canaanites escaped to Africa (their black skin allegedly evidence of the curse of perpetual slavery). He subsequently speculated that “[Native] Americans may be the Posterity of those Canaanites, who after the Wars of Canaan, set up their Pillars in Africa.”…
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