Chapter 71: Go Back

280     informed . . . had lived in Palestine “5,000 years ago”  Mahmoud Abbas in United Nations Security Council, verbatim record of the 8183rd Meeting, S/PV.8183 (2018), documents.un.org/doc/undoc/pro/n18/045/49/pdf/n1804549.pdf, 6.

280     became . . . thirteenth prime minister in 2021  “Bennett Sworn In as 13th Israeli Premier,” TV7 Israel News, June 14, 2021, www.tv7israelnews.com/bennett-sworn-in-as-13th-israeli-premier/.

280     “A nation inventing its past has no future” Naftali Bennett quoted in “Ministers Rip into Abbas, Accuse Him of Distorting History,” Times of Israel, February 20, 2018, www.timesofisrael.com/ministers-rip-into-abbas-accuse-him-of-distorting-history/.

280     leader of the Religious Zionism Party and Israeli finance minister  “Israel’s Netanyahu Closer to Hard-Right Government with New Legislation,” Reuters, December 27, 2022, www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israels-netanyahu-closer-hard-right-government-with-new-legislation-2022-12-27/; and Hadas Gold et al., “Israeli Minister Says There’s ‘No Such Thing as a Palestinian People,’ Inviting US Rebuke,” CNN, March 21, 2023, www.cnn.com/2023/03/21/middleeast/israel-smotrich-palestinians-intl/index.html.

280     “Is there a Palestinian history or culture? Nothing . . .” Bezalel Smotrich quoted in Gold et al., “Israeli Minister Says There’s ‘No Such Thing as a Palestinian People,’ Inviting US Rebuke,” www.cnn.com/2023/03/21/middleeast/israel-smotrich-palestinians-intl/index.html.

280     identified as a defender of Chile’s European heritage “Revulsion at Venezuela Is Fuelling the Hard Right in Latin America,” Economist, November 6, 2021, www.economist.com/the-americas/2021/11/06/revulsion-at-venezuela-is-fuelling-the-hard-right-in-latin-america.

280     “not indigenous”  Winston Peters quoted in Lincoln Tan, “Election 2023: Winston Peters Claims ‘Māori Are Not Indigenous’ during Nelson Meeting with NZ First Supporters,” New Zealand Herald, September 10, 2023, www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/election-2023-winston-peters-claims-maori-are-not-indigenous-during-nelson-meeting-with-nz-first-supporters/ZCEBFEUDZJGHXA2SY4KGOFETIQ.

280     father was Māori Tony Verdon, “Winston Peters: Politician, Family Man and Enigma,” New Zealand Herald, September 29, 2017, www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/winston-peters-politician-family-man-and-enigma/UXPID43XCOB4BTZUOG6QPU23FY/.

280     “We didn’t come 54,000 years ago . . .” Peters quoted in Tan, “Election 2023: Winston Peters Claims ‘Māori Are Not Indigenous’ during Nelson Meeting with NZ First Supporters,” www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/election-2023-winston-peters-claims-maori-are-not-indigenous-during-nelson-meeting-with-nz-first-supporters/ZCEBFEUDZJGHXA2SY4KGOFETIQ.

280     “We birthed a nation from nothing . . .”  Young America’s Foundation, “The Fight for Religious Freedom | Senator Rick Santorum | Standing Up For Faith & Freedom,” YouTube, April 23, 2021, www.youtube.com/live/O7_OyMkYkkY?si=3nszG69i7-d-Gb_I, 20:41–20:52.

280     questioned the existence of racist discrimination  Julie Luchetta, “Idaho GOP Stands Behind Senator After Racist Outburst,” Boise State Public Radio News, October 9, 2024, www.boisestatepublicradio.org/politics-government/2024-10-03/dan-foreman-racism-idaho-nez-perce-candidate-kendrick.

280–281 “Just because someone hasn’t . . . doesn’t mean it’s not happening”  Trish Carter-Goodheart quoted in Laura Guido, “Foreman to Carter-Goodheart: ‘Go Back to Where You Came From,’” Lewiston (ID) Tribune, October 4, 2024, www.lmtribune.com/local-news/foreman-to-carter-goodheart-go-back-to-where-you-came-frome17a26d0.

281      “Racism and discrimination are real issues here . . .”  Carter-Goodheart quoted in Guido, “Foreman to Carter-Goodheart: ‘Go Back to Where You Came From,’” www.lmtribune.com/local-news/foreman-to-carter-goodheart-go-back-to-where-you-came-frome17a26d0.

281      Long before . . . Nez Perce ancestors lived there In her statement in response to Dan Foreman’s racist comment, Trish Carter-Goodheart declares, “I am a proud member of the Nez Perce tribe, fighting to represent the land my family has lived on for generations.” In fact, “the oldest known human habitation in North America, more than 16,000 years in age, is located at the site of an ancient Nez Perce village known as Nipéhe, near the confluence of the Snake and Salmon Rivers” in Idaho. For Carter-Goodheart's statement, see Trish Carter-Goodheart, “My statement regarding the events of last night's all-candidate forum in Kendrick,” Facebook, October 2, 2024, www.facebook.com/permalink.php/?story_fbid=122114358350512191&id=61565365741589. For more on the archaeological findings at Nipéhe, see Ellen Morris Bishop, “Ancient Nez Perce Village Site Yields Oldest Date of Human Habitation in North America,” Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland, September 30, 2019, www.wallowanezperce.org/news/2019/9/30/ancient-nez-perce-village-site-yields-oldest-date-of-human-habitation-in-north-america.

281      retired from the U.S. Air Force and an Idaho police force “Sen. Daniel D. Foreman,” Idaho Legislature, accessed March 7, 2025, legislature.idaho.gov/legislators/membership/2024/id4269/.

281      introduced a bill . . . with first-degree murder  William L. Spence, “Idaho Lawmaker Would Charge Women Who Have Abortions with Murder,” Idaho Statesman, January 17, 2017, www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article125859554.html.

281      “I’m so sick and tired of this liberal bullshit” Dan Foreman quoted in Guido, “Foreman to Carter-Goodheart: ‘Go Back to Where You Came From,’” www.lmtribune.com/local-news/foreman-to-carter-goodheart-go-back-to-where-you-came-frome17a26d0.

281      “Why don’t you go back to where you came from?” Foreman quoted in Guido, “Foreman to Carter-Goodheart: ‘Go Back to Where You Came From,’” www.lmtribune.com/local-news/foreman-to-carter-goodheart-go-back-to-where-you-came-frome17a26d0.

281      “I enlightened this person to the fact . . . therefore a native American”  Dan Foreman for Idaho Senate, “I don’t normally respond to blatant lies . . .” Facebook, October 3, 2024, www.facebook.com/permalink.php/?story_fbid=1064605799007961&id=100063756525686, archived at archive.today, February 10, 2026 capture, archive.ph/7ftTa.

281      “a quintessential display of race-baiting"  Dan Foreman for Idaho Senate, “Well, my friends the far-left socialist democrats were at it again. . .” Facebook, October 3, 2024, www.facebook.com/100063756525686/posts/1064394602362414/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v, archived at archive.today, February 10, 2026 capture, archive.ph/B57lZ.

281      “a news flash for the lefties out there. . .” Dan Foreman for Idaho Senate, “Well, my friends the far-left socialist democrats were at it again . . .” www.facebook.com/100063756525686/posts/1064394602362414/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v, archived at archive.ph/B57lZ.

281      “You do not have any right to murder the unborn . . . ”  Dan Foreman for Idaho Senate, “Well, my friends the far-left socialist democrats were at it again . . .” www.facebook.com/100063756525686/posts/1064394602362414/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v, archived at archive.ph/B57lZ.

281      won reelection . . . lost her race “2024 Idaho General Elections Results—State Senate District 6,” USA Today, last updated January 23, 2025, www.usatoday.com/elections/results/2024-11-05/race/13261/idaho; and “2024 Idaho General Elections Results—State House Position 6A,” USA Today, last updated November 27, 2024, www.usatoday.com/elections/results/2024-11-05/race/13302/idaho.

281      published . . . Minority in One’s Own Land  Naomi O’Leary, “Geert Wilders’ Brain,” Politico, October 11, 2016, www.politico.eu/article/martin-bosma-geert-wilders-brain-netherlands-far-right-freedom-party/; Martin Bosma, Minderheid in eigen land: Hoe progressieve strijd ontaardt in genocide en ANC-apartheid (Amsterdam, NL: Bibliotheca Africana Formicae, 2015). Find the library book at search.worldcat.org/title/911019776?oclcNum=911019776.

281      began arriving, settling . . . who had resided . . . for thousands of years Laura Secorun, “South Africa’s First Nations Have Been Forgotten,” Foreign Policy, October 19, 2018, foreignpolicy.com/2018/10/19/south-africas-first-nations-have-been-forgotten-apartheid-khoisan-indigenous-rights-land-reform/; and “The Khoisan,” South African History Online, last updated January 16, 2020, www.sahistory.org.za/article/khoisan.

281      became known as . . .fashioned . . . apartheid Christi van der Westhuizen, “Afrikaner Identity in Post-Apartheid South Africa Remains Stuck in Whiteness,” The Conversation, January 8, 2018, theconversation.com/afrikaner-identity-in-post-apartheid-south-africa-remains-stuck-in-whiteness-87471.

281–282 To Bosma, not only are White Afrikaners indigenous  O’Leary, “Geert Wilders’ Brain,” www.politico.eu/article/martin-bosma-geert-wilders-brain-netherlands-far-right-freedom-party/.

281–282 as subjecting Afrikaners to “cultural genocide” and “Apartheid 2.0”  Martin Bosma quoted in O’Leary, “Geert Wilders’ Brain,” www.politico.eu/article/martin-bosma-geert-wilders-brain-netherlands-far-right-freedom-party/.