I have to concede ground on identity politics 🧵

I was warned over & over it would be weaponised against the very people it claims to protect.
I worried that reasoning was a cover for closet bigots, not wanting to make changes to language or views.

But my god, what came next- The utter bastardisation of discourse that’s happened since 2015 is breathtaking

Wealthy white supremacists (whether white or not) cosplaying as liberals hijacked the “lived experience” discourse

To the point they’re now using it to justify GENOCIDE

I’ve crossed the terrifying Erez Crossing multiple times across the past decade. Let me describe the experience for you 🧵

https://twitter.com/davidmakovsky/status/1737257339512565784

I arrived in a taxi to what looks like the outer wall of a prison. Because that’s what Gaza is. Israel has built prison walls 30m high around the Palestinian towns that make up Gaza.

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🧵 We need to talk about the Holocaust

Most westerners think Hitler took Germany by force. They think most Germans were opposed to fascism, weren’t antisemitic, and/or didn’t know about the Final Solution.

They don’t know about the 5m OTHER humans murdered with the 6m Jews. Let’s bust some myths & explore the reality:

1. Most people here are still enormously prejudiced towards socialists, sick and disabled people, and the LGBT & GRT communities who made up the rest of the Holocaust victims. So these victims are memory-holed.

Decolonising your mind means telling on yourself.

I’m happy to do that if it helps a single person in the Global North challenge their socialised racism

So here’s how I ended up going from pro-Israel to pro-Palestine 🧵 In May 2002, post 9/11 and with the Blair govt in its first term, I was a total Centrist.

I refused to sign a petition on my uni campus against the invasion of Afghanistan.

Then some students that had just returned from a delegation to Palestine held a talk. I went…