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The full institutional protection of one community will come to be constitutively built on the misrecognition of another.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/overland.org.au\/2026\/06\/the-zero-sum-state-what-the-royal-commission-reveals-on-the-future-of-muslim-life-in-australia\/\">The zero-sum state: what the Royal Commission reveals on the future of Muslim life in Australia<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/overland.org.au\">Overland literary journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The zero-sum logic that the Royal Commission\u2019s witnesses have voiced through the IHRA definition is a colonial act of oppression. If the state succumbs to that logic, as every indication suggests it will, Muslim political solidarity with Palestine risks becoming not merely unrecognised but structurally criminalised. 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