Thread by @NimerSultany

1. The defects of Liberal Zionism are evident in this interview with David Grossman, one of the first liberal zionists to acknowledge that Israel is committing genocide: 🧵

2. Denial and delaying criticism: "I have done everything I could to avoid having to call Israel a genocidal state" (echoes Omer Bartov in NYT article).

So you have been part of the problem when others were screaming into the void.

3. Despite denial (in the face of mounting evidence of mass atrocities) no acknowledgement of the moral failure: "I am still a moral person, I am speaking up"

(after 18,500 children killed, after 90% of Gaza was destroyed and when population is crammed into 12% of territory)

4. No self-doubt, no self-criticism

5. No acknowledgment of the original sin: the Nakba. Instead the problem starts with the 1967 occupation.

6. Blaming the victim, revisionism and self-justification: it is not about Israel's policies (annexation, denial of self-determination, 16 year siege on Gaza, and right wing turn in Israeli society): it is Palestinian fanaticism and choices

As @Alonso_GD also says

@Alonso_GD PS - what happens in situations of "crisis" or "trauma" like 7 October is that under the banner of "patriotism" (or genocidal sense of victimhood) the line separating between liberal and right wing Zionism collapses. Now they seek to reassert it:

@Alonso_GD PS 2: Liberal Zionists are part of the problem and the reason why we are here today: they granted Israel a veneer of respectability despite the consolidation of apartheid and increasing brutality of occupation: