Summary - pity the Palestinians, but don’t say anything to support their struggle.

On Thursday, Students for Justice in Palestine, a network of pro-Palestinian campus groups, is holding Day of Resistance demonstrations across the United States and Canada. A planning document the group posted online refers to all of Israel as a “settler colony” and says, “Settlers are not ‘civilians’ in the sense of international law, because they are military assets used to ensure continued control over stolen Palestinian land.”

Perhaps such hideous dogmatism shouldn’t be surprising. The left has always attracted certain people who relish the struggle against oppression primarily for the way it licenses their own cruelty; they are one reason movements on the left so reliably produce embittered apostates. Plenty of leftists have long fetishized revolutionary violence in poor countries, perhaps as a way of coping with their own ineffectuality. Che Guevara didn’t become a dorm room icon only for his motorcycle and rakish beret.

  • Wertheimer [any]@hexbear.netOP
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    1 year ago

    Which would do exactly jack shit. This is the lib equivalent of when conservatives gives oh so very sincere and not at all manipulative “advice” as to how Democrats can better win elections. They want a left that’s complacent fits neatly into the liberal order, doesn’t threaten it, maybe produces a few leaders that can be subsumed into the DC blob. I’m glad these left wing and Palestinian organizations aren’t giving a shit about what the respectability libs are demanding of them because they realize it’s a no-win situation.

    Even Jacobin recognizes this: Israel’s Western Allies Have Done Everything Possible to Criminalize Nonviolent Resistance