Israeli settlers are both occupying and showing commitment to orientalist visions that helped colonize Palestine.
An Israeli settler is posting videos from the Galilee. In them, Ayala Ben Baruch bakes bread on a taboon, picks olives, wears embroidered dresses. In the background, familiar folk music plays, familiar in melody and rhythm, yet the words are foreign. These carefully crafted videos sell an image: that Israeli settlers can be indigenous. She performs this by tending to olive trees that preceded her arrival in Palestine by generations, by wearing dresses stitched in inspired patterns that belong to villages her state destroyed, and by playing songs copied and stolen in style and rhythm from Palestinian folklore that generations composed and carried.