This is what Fanon called the 'pitfalls of national consciousness.' You are taking Lumumba—a revolutionary, anti-colonial, materialist fighter—and reducing him to a religious prop. They cannot celebrate his actual politics because those politics threaten the order they serve.
Pulling up to public housing that people still live at in a Rolls-Royce and continued silence on his people being murdered back at home in Palestine. What an example of class.
Actor Sacha Baron Cohen, the star of several racist films about Muslims and Arabs, privately lobbied TikTok executives for Israel during it's war on Gaza.
the distance americans manufacture between their soldiers and the idf is entirely imaginary. occupation produces the same rituals of humiliation, cruelty and domination because that is what occupation requires.
"Grassroots volunteer group to defend their town against rising settler violence" fundamentally describes the PLO, Hamas, PFLP, Hezbollah, and all anti-Zionist resistance factions.
When these guys get too effective, Israel will just bomb them and say they're terrorists.