I knew that @jvplive was a bunch of selfish privileged Jewish kids, but I didn't know they are so narcissistic, brainless, and lack any moral sense that they would popularize one of the ideologues of Arab fascism and antisemitism.
Ghassan Kanafani was a leading member and the /1
leading literary figure of the PFLP. He started his career in the 60s when he became a disciple of George Habash, a leading terrorist, idealogue, and the founder of the most fascist and totalitarian pan-Arab organization, the ANM. The ANM would break down later to warring /2
Marxist factions (as such movements tend to do) that would pioneer all kinds of modern terror way before Allahu Akbar became a thing. The ANM, conceived by Arab Christians who were heavily influenced by Marxist totalitarian intellectual traditions and thoroughly impressed by /3
German nazi paganism of complete worship of the hyper-masculine self, was responsible for transferring the Nazi vocabulary (Shock brigades, stormtroopers, etc.) into the Palestinian national consciousness. ANM was known for hosting some of the most prolific Arab nationalist /4
intellectuals who formed in the day the true edge of the rising Arab chauvinism and of which Kanafani will become one. The official doctrine of the ANM is that Zionism and Judaism are identical manifestations of the "Jewish threat." The concept of "vengeance" was paramount as /5
it was part of its holy trinity, "Unity, liberation, vengeance," and its official battle cry was "Blood, iron, fire." This self-aggrandizing mythology widened a gap that was already wide between Arab societies and any understanding of political modernity and liberalism and /6
mixed the Jihad of Islam with the sense of authenticity of German political philosophy. The first fruit of this ideological amalgam with the attack on the Jewish synagogue in Damascus on Aug 6th, 1949 in which 12 Jews were killed as well as the bombing of the Alliance /7
Israélite in Beirut. Later in the 60s and 70s, cadres from the ANM pioneered hijackings and bombings terror attacks that killed so many civilians in cooperation with Japanese and German terrorists. Kanafani's direct involvement in promoting and coordinating the ideological /8
terror networks led Mossad to assassinate him in 1972. But Kanafani's most important contribution to Arab fascism was his romantic writings that mythologized the Arab chauvinist male and created pathological German-inspired Arab pagan modern mythology revering blood, manhood, /9
honor, and dehumanized both Jews and Arabs themselves. The iconization of "pain" as the factory of "men" that can make epics of glory was Kanafani's lasting contribution to the dramatization and inflation of Palestinian national ego of militant masculinity of the national /10
socialist kind. (There is also a whole sick sexual thing I don't want to get into) I can go on about Kanafani, his writings, but I think I want to come back to 2021 where many spoiled and ignorant American kids want to play freedom fighters. Yet, what do I know?! I'm just an /11
Arab who grew up in the Middle East. Of course, I don't have the wisdom and social justice instinct of those enlightened, worldly, and highly educated JVP kids who can discover the power of truth and justice by virtue of their own most inner authenticity. Their authentic /12
selves already carry all the education, knowledge, purity, and wisdom there is to have. I blame the families and the lack of good real Jewish education! Well done @jvplive
A side note, I believe that Kanafani's period and the influence of modern Euro fascism and Marxism was actually central to the founding of modern Islamic Jihad and not some return of 8th century Arabia. Any explanation of Islamism that misses this misses the mark wildly.
Thank you to all those who informed me that @jvplive are fake Jews and don't actually have a lot of Jews among them. They should be more honestly called Fake Jewish Voice for Fake Peace.
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Many of the carrying cardmembers of the American liberal elite insist that marching down the streets of Tehran shouting "Death to America.. Death to Israel" is all just performative social gatherings. That Palestinians calling for "slaughtering the Jews" is merely expressive /1
of injustice. I struggle to try to explain that those beliefs and ideas DO matter. But eventually, it did hit me, those liberals and experts say and think so because they themselves don't believe in anything anymore. American liberalism became a preposterous philisitnic /2
phariseeism of a nation of technicians who believe in nothing but means and techniques. They don't believe the Iranians or the Palestinians really believe in what they say they believe because they personally don't believe in what they say they believe. It's all mere /3
A 14-year-old Palestinian girl just stabbed a Jewish woman who was pushing a stroller and walking her children to school. Can critical theory and institutional racism help you understand this? Can apartheid and social justice explain it without entangling us is delusional /1
abstractions? For a Westerner whose mind is well molded in modern liberal habits of mind, there is no way to understand this weird mystifying incident. Reporters will write entire essays about this, academics will write papers without a single mention of "antisemitism," a word /2
that easily cuts through the matter and explains it. The most obvious characteristic of such terrorist attacks is that they are committed by children, and their childhood exposes the true essence of the matter, simple faith in the villainy of Jews as Jews. In antisemitic /3
Do not seek greatness for yourself, and do not covet honor. Practice more than you learn. Do not yearn for the table of kings, for your table is greater than their table, and your crown is greater than their crown and faithful is your employer to pay you the reward of your /1
labor. Greater is learning Torah than the priesthood and than royalty, for royalty is acquired by thirty stages, and the priesthood by twenty-four, but the Torah by forty-eight things. By study, Attentive listening, Proper speech, By an understanding heart, By an intelligent /2
heart, By awe, By fear, By humility, By joy, By attending to the sages, By critical give and take with friends, By fine argumentation with disciples, By clear thinking, By study of Scripture, By study of mishnah, By a minimum of sleep, By a minimum of chatter, By a minimum of /3
Zionism in its origin, as a romanticist and idealist national project, was distinct among all similar movements in more than one way: while other projects were options among other options, Zionism was progressively compulsory given the rise of predatory mass antisemitism in /1
early 20th century Europe that later culminated in the Holocaust. This made Zionism not merely a nationalist project, but a survivalist imperative. Second, because of the first point Zionism was inherently a defensive nationalism as opposed to the prevalent mode of offensive /2
nationalisms built on self-realization of the German kind in Europe (Germany, Italy, France, Russia, etc.) and later in the Middle East. That is, Zionism was romanticist for survival purposes not for self-aggrandizement purposes. Third, the historical circumstances of /3
There is an assumption among many people that Islamists deceptively appropriate wokeness. This assumption portrays that Muslim wokeness must be disingenuous. While this is definitely true on the level of Islamist leaders and politicians, but among many young Muslims woke is /1
as genuinely appealing as it is among young Jews. I spoke to many young American women in hijab who genuinely think Islam is intersectional trans-friendly anti-colonial enterprise. This should show you how potent and dangerous wokeness is. Some who may read this may find it /2
nearly impossible for someone wearing one of the foremost symbols of oppressing women would actually believe this, but that's because you still think woke is truly about justice, liberation, decolonization, etc. It isn't! Not for one bit. It is a predatory totalitarian /3
. Just the kind we all now love; young, brown, female, hip, and cool. The bottom line of her book is that the only way to achieve world justice is the destruction of Jewish sovereignty. /1
I'm used to reading this kind of propaganda and delusional fantasies but what really got on my nerves in this book is how at the end she is very benevolently and selflessly extending a branch of peace to the "Zionist settlers" saying they will be allowed to live but they are /2
only asked to "relinquish their desire to rule" and just let them be part of a Palestinian context. The obnoxious delusional, yet gentle sounding, paternalism is just maddening. The supposed "academics" who do such gaslighting and psychological abuse as if it was some profound /3