/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!
Blowback picked a really good time to talk about Nixon expanding the war into Cambodia to “”“end”“” the war in Vietnam.
Anticolonial struggles are struggles against colonialism, the decolonial struggle is the struggle for decolonisation once colonization has already happened.
The grounds of conflict are colonial! It’s not a religious conflict, it’s Europeans invading Palestine and ethnically cleansing the land of Palestinians. Zionists around the turn of the 1900s openly called it colonialism when they were discussing it and in their writings.
Obviously the conflict has evolved since that initial infusion of Europeans, so now most Israelis are born in the region, but they’re still the descendents of those colonists. That’s why my initial comparison was with the US because it’s very similar - a bunch of racist Europeans invaded the land for colonization and expelled the indigenous people already living there.
Thinking that you can’t learn from historical examples because everybody is too different to ever compare anything is nonsense.
How am I supposed to read this as anything other than “Palestinians migrated into Israel when the Jews migrated out”? Which, I must reiterate, is a racist myth.
As we all know, ending apartheid and constructing multiracial democracy is impossible. 🙄
A ton of them just converted from Judaism. This idea that Arabs flooded into Palestine after kicking all the Jews out is racist revisionist history.
That’s how colonizers always are. Think about how much Afrikaners wailed and gnashed their teeth? Or French Algerians? Or, again, the white US South which construted a whole identity around being victims?
Settlers are settlers wherever they go. The decolonial struggle not only rehumanizes the colonized, it rehumanizes the colonizer as they are forced to recognize the pain and suffering of others. They still have to be defeated, regardless of their own whining.
That’s also why denazification is necessary - these people need to be forced to recognize the humanity of others or they’ll just migrate to Europe and America and be racist there.
It would definitely require a process similar to denazification in Germany, where the people are reeducated and all members of the previous administrative apparatus are removed from power. Like the radical reconstruction in the South after America’s Civil War (before white terror overthrew their multiracial democracy I mean)
But Jews live in Germany now, and Germany is a great friend of Israel. Much like Black people in the US and whites, things can change.
We’re all human, I have no idea why you think “they just experience the world differently over there” like they’re aliens. I’m not making a 1-1 comparison but like, there ARE similarities!
They don’t like each other because one is a colonizer coming to steal land and ethically cleanse the population. If they stopped doing that I think they could get along.
Black people and whites mostly get along on the US these days. Different peoples can live together.
How about ending apartheid and making a multiethnic, multi-religious democratic state from the river to the sea? Israelis can become Palestinian, they don’t need to leave.
The Jewish settlers didn’t live in Palestine, they lived in Europe and then moved to Palestine to steal the land. They’re white.
Just because one ancestor a dozen generations ago lived somewhere doesn’t mean you have a right to evict the actual people living on that land.
In order to maintain ballot status and to run as third party candidates at lower levels, they actually have to run at the presidential level in many states. They’re forced to run a presidential candidate and split the vote, or else they’re locked out of many states.
Reading theory is for nerds, and sometimes us nerds are… yeah. We all gotta put in the work to be comradely in our orgs and spaces.
I lost a good friend in highschool this way.
Arguing online is only for fun. It’s too alienated from the personal to ever convince anyone of anything. We’re just strings of text here - random encounters in the posting RPG.
They’re precise right up until they aren’t. 😉
Chickens naturally fly. Not well or far, but they can get in a tree to roost if they want. That’s why they get their wings clipped.
Farmers take that away from them, so all they have left is fight.
The death is the point. In their minds, women who die from complications due to pregnancy are being punished by God.
In reality, that’s exactly how they are used.