A succinct index of my posts here (and a few outside links) addressing Israel-Palestine:
Principles, analysis, and information
A short statement of principles, in support of Palestinian liberation without the disenfranchisement of Israelis
A survey of the history of Israel focused on debunking common canards on all sides
Resources explaining why Clinton’s attempt to broker an agreement between Israel and the PLO was doomed, illuminating a lot more than just that moment
Quote from a long essay about the radically liberal side of the Zionist movement which
opposed the creation of a nation-state as a homeland
Why this turn of phrase is a bad way to make a good point about condeming Israel’s actions without faulting Israel as a uniquely illegitimate state
Unpacking common metaphors which create confusion rather than clarity
Wrestling with another bad analogy, stumbling into creating a worse analogy, and the bitter lessons that teaches about analogies
On para-fascist Likud rule in Israel not just brutalizing Palestinians but even violating core
Zionist principle
A grab bag of commentaries about the dynamics of Zionism and politics in Israel
On
embracing a false telling of history in which Palestinians have only ever demanded a sovereign Gaza & West Bank
On the deaths of Ariel Sharon and Yasir Arafat
Grumbles about uninformed commentators
Critiquing a common image misrepresenting history; I need to revist this one because the image
is bad … but so is my critique
A hopeful note from 2011 which now seems tragic and naïve
Tragic fundamentals
Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza after 10/7/2023
Why people of conscience
must use the word in 2025, because Israel’s attack on Gaza
became an attempt to expell or murder all Arab Palestinians and annex the territory
Outside link — the open letter which persuaded me in October 2023 that while Israel’s attack on Gaza was not (yet) eliminationist violence pursuing the expulsion and / or murder of all Arab Palestinians in Gaza, it was such an unmistakable attempt to violently disrupt them
as a people that we needed to register it as genocidal
An explanation of why I have not used the word “war” but have used the word “genocidal” to describe Israel’s attack, and the complexities in that decision
A close examination of the reasons why it is a mistake to assume that Israel’s attack on Gaza was an attempt to annex the territory from the start
Capture of an elaborate and informative Twitter thread by a Palestinian commentator, which animated my read of Israel’s intentions in 2024
Why — despite Biden & Harris falling far short of their moral obligation to stand against Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza — all people of conscience needed to vote for Harris in the Presidential election, even if protecting Gaza was the
only thing they cared about
On avoiding a Both Sides shrug while recognizing culpability by both Likud and Hamas
On the Biden administration making a weird, clever move attempting to deliver aid to Palestinians in Gaza
Avoiding antisemitism while supporting Palestinian liberation
Outside link — an open letter to leftists about avoiding facile forms of opposition to wrongs Israel commits which implicitly compromise leftist principle and invite antisemitism
Outside link — a survey of antisemitic tropes and how to recognize & avoid them
Examining attention-hungry theocratic reactionary Jewish cultists as an example of how easily gentiles unfamiliar with Judaism & and the complexities of Israel-Palestine can get confused about the allies they cultivate in supporting Palestinian liberation
In case you need this simple rule explained to you
On misrepresentations of Zionism which reflect an ugly general tendency to describe wrongs Israel commits as the inevitable fruit of Israel’s uniquely evil roots, and antisemitic consequences
Closely examining this slogan as an exemplar of the movement for Palestinian liberation offering subtly antisemitic propaganda to people of good conscience who do not understand the implications
A case study in the movement for Palestinian liberation making irresponsibly antisemtic demands in a community
A dialogue with a leftist anti-Zionist, exemplifying common bad ideas offered by people motivated by good conscience
Avoiding opposition to Palestinian liberation disguised as faux opposition to antisemitism
Examining a bad policy
Less about Israel-Palestine itself than about opposing MAGA fascism attempting to veil itself as opposition to antisemitism
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