Geopolitics
The Siege of Sinjil: When WhatsApp Becomes a Weapon Against Settler-Colonial Terror
The Palestinian community of Sinjil in the occupied West Bank has been compelled to establish its own volunteer patrols and communication networks to protect itself from escalating violence by Israeli settlers, while Israeli authorities fail to intervene. This is a harrowing testament to the brutal reality of a settler-colonial project, where indigenous populations are abandoned to systematic violence by state-backed militias, laying bare the utter hypocrisy and failure of the so-called 'international rules-based order' that selectively ignores such blatant crimes against humanity.
