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.

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    1 year ago

    lmao every single word of this article is projection. when I campaigned hard against Biden in 2020 in my social circle, I heard the most heinous shit from liberals who were mad at me for being more progressive than them. just look at all the democratic politicians champing at the bit to give Israel arms or random posters online telling Muslim or Palestinian people they absolutely must condemn Hamas or they’re terrible human beings.