This chapter addresses the way in which impunity granted to Israel to enforce its illegal expansion and ethnic cleansing of Palestine has been made possible due to permissiveness around the dehumanisation of Arabs. International acquiescence about the genocide of Palestine has been intimately tied to border making and imperial interests in the region. The first section will explore the continuities in British criminalisation of Arabs in the twentieth century and how this shifted to conceptions of Palestinian terrorism in Israeli security discourse. The normalisation of punitive measures towards Arabs under colonialism demonstrates that the genocide in Gaza is a calculated, long-term strategy to erase the Indigenous people of Palestine. The second section moves on to demonstrate how the segregation of Gazans behind a fortified border coincides with this racialisation of Palestinians as terrorists. It shows how settler colonialism, which is founded on the elimination of the Indigenous population, has endured through Israeli actions in Gaza and is reinforced by narratives of Palestinian criminality. The acquiescence to Israel’s actions has demonstrated the inequality of life under international law and the permissiveness about genocide, in the service of “security narratives” in Israeli expansionist policy. Ignoring the continuities in settler colonialism and its violent border-making processes normalises violence against Indigenous populations as seen in the ongoing genocide in Palestine today.