Massive protests against Israel’s war on Gaza have surged on the world’s streets, from the Global South, where people recognise the brutality of colonialism as a lived experience as well as liberation from its chains, to the Global North in states which practised colonialism and have finished with it – at least in its traditional form. The marches for Gaza have been about more than demands for a ceasefire: there is a deep awareness among demonstrators that the issue isn’t Gaza alone, and that current events did not start on October 7. Rather, they are the fatal harvest of decades of ethnic cle…