Thread by @nookyelur

On liberals in the US and the Zionist "left"; their function promoting genocide and the means by which they sabotage resistance from the left.

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2/ Liberals in the US and their liberal Zionist analogues in Israel serve as propagandists for white supremacy, providing a “modern”, “tolerant” and “diverse” facade for a fundamentally racist system.

3/ Liberals persistently shift the discussion away from a systemic analysis of the state’s daily displays of violence to a focus on isolated events and perceived civility of revolutionary tactics, conditioning their allyship on commitments to non-violence...

4/ and respect for state representations and commodities. Protests falling for this trap are quickly co-opted by liberals and their associated politicians with pie-in-the-sky promises of reform, resulting in net losses for the left.

5/ When acts of resistance are limited to non-violent displays, while the far more substantial and pervasive systemic violence is ignored and excused, retaliatory and often defensive acts at the hands of protesters are vilified, resulting in dangerous reactionary precedents.

6/ Inclusion of liberal reformists in protest inevitably dooms any sort of efforts to stall or thwart counter-revolutionary efforts. On the contrary, such displays serve to deflate any revolutionary momentum into a collective vent for frustrations.

7/ The Zionist “left” is an integral part of the oppressive Zionist propaganda apparatus, whether those involved in the endeavour are aware of it or not. The supposed left, “liberal” wing of Zionism, comprising Israeli political parties, non-profit organisations and...

8/ media organs in Israel and outside it, serves to promote Zionist propaganda, which renders occupation, apartheid and the genocide of the Indigenous Palestinian people palatable to audiences in Israel and worldwide.

9/ The Palestinian liberal bourgeoisie, especially those within the Green Line, tend to fall for this mirage time and again. By contrast, the @BDSmovement has wisely adopted a strict anti-Zionist, anti-racist platform. A resistance to oppression through the formation of...

10/ intersectional alliances built on a clear understanding of systems of oppression incorporates lessons of past anti-colonial movements and breaks apart the fictitious, divisive political narratives of white supremacy, imperialism, racism and patriarchy.

11/ The recognition that various oppressed peoples have common enemies serves to reinforce solidarity and cooperation between them and assists in principled grassroots movements, such as BDS and Black Lives Matter.

12/ The anti-Zionist, anti-racist framework intrinsic to the BDS movement has yielded far more impressive gains for Palestinians than any collaboration with white saviours and/or liberal Zionist entities.