The Allied powers were themselves constituted by colonial genocide

Evidence

It is little recognized that the stunning failure of such critique and analysis, as Power exemplifies in her book, never gets to the real point, that the leading countries in what later became the Alliance that stood and watched the Nazi genocide against the Jews were themselves constituted, formed, and shaped by a genocidal process in the colonies, a process whose origins lie in a thought structure that fashions worldviews that have become the bases for action. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 445

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Unifies Holocaust inaction and colonial genocide into one ‘genocidal modernity’ thought-structure; paradigm-shifting in its scope.
• SEED: Article angle: why liberal critiques of Western genocide inaction structurally cannot see that the state-form itself is constituted by colonial genocide.
• XREF: connects to: The Allied ban on political activity eased Nazi and conservative continuity in German institutions — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1640