Posts on this subject are obviously fraught, so a few things up front:
- the moral question is simple: Palestinian liberation is right & necessary
- the praxis is complicated: antisemitic entryism into the movement for liberation is subtle, pervasive, and unacceptable
- the history is complicated: I have a survey of it which addresses many common misunderstandings on all sides
- I keep an index of resources — my posts and others’
The open letter For a consistently democratic and internationalist left says so much of what has been driving me bats in this season of having a hard time with people on my side in opposing Israel’s brutality against Gaza.
We are longtime left activists and organisers. In this text, we want to engage with the prevailing moods on the left, and through it let others who feel as we do know that they are not alone. It is also an invitation to other leftists to join us in taking a stand against antisemitism, truncated antiracism, campism, nationalism, accommodation with Islamism and other left-right alliances. We write in the hope that a better internationalist left is possible.
Read the whole thing.
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