Abstract
How does the genocide of Palestinian people in Gaza, broadcast into homes around the world for over ten months, fail to compel decisive intervention? Such inaction from the Western political consensus relies on two settler colonial mythologies: that of a belief in the limitless settler imagination and incredulity toward testimony of interlocutors who challenge settler colonial world-building. Through the operation of these two features, Western hegemony, and settler states particularly, are engaged in defending a belief in what Hage theorizes as mono realism. It contrasts this analysis with the role of Indigenous solidarities, such as that offered by the Red Nation in October 2023, as a starting point for engaging the crisis of genocide by suspending an understanding of Israel framed according to its own terms.