On Indigenous Solidarity: Deleuze and the Palestinians

Deleuze supported the Palestinian struggle for freedom from the 1970s until his death in 2003, denouncing their colonisation by Israel. His comparison of their struggle with the history of the Native American situation in the US was at the time both daring and popular among left-wing circles. This article discusses how Indigenous people today in North America, Australia or elsewhere in the world see the issue of Palestinian indigeneity. If many Indigenous people protest in solidarity and call for a boycott on Israel for the ongoing genocide in Gaza, others align with the 2024 Israeli government which denies a status of Indigeneity to Palestinians despite the millenary cohabitation of Palestinian tribes with Jewish tribes.