I doubt it. Being on the left means you're constantly annoyed and exasperated by other leftists, but you do it anyway because it's about a commitment to human liberation. It's not a social club
@barteeckhout de vergelijking die u maakt in uw artikel is gewoonweg absurd en beschamend, hoe ga je studenten die pleiten voor een stop aan de genocide in Gaza (en ook succesvol de druk op de UGent hebben verhoogd) vergelijken met studenten die zouden pleiten voor massadeportaties?
Gestapo this, IDF that. Not everything authoritarian has to be perceived through a foreign lens. Not all evil is derived from a Nazi Germany or Israel alone. Fascism is inherently American too. Hitler was inspired by America's institutionalized racism and indigenous holocausts. America wrote the playbook they all use(d).
This violence is as American as Apple Pie. Yes, ICE and countless police departments and law enforcement officials across the US hold extensive joint-training and exchange programs with Israel, but this is what the American *security* and state apparatus was always designed to do— to repress and murder those who resisted their mandate.
The earliest police in America, from marshalls to border patrol, would recruit klansmen, slave catchers and rangers who hunted indigenous people. To *protect* and to *serve* has always meant the maintenance of the white supremacist settler state.
In order for their to even be the concept of a United States, white supremacist violence was enveloped into the fabric of the settler colonial project as a necessary backbone of the expansionism which took place.
If anything, Israeli settler colonialism and its state sanctioned systematic erasure of Palestinian life draws inspiration from the American model.
All violence under capitalism is inherently interconnected and interdependent. We are all fighting the same beast in a different form. Confronting imperialist and colonial violence is part of confronting climate catastrophe.
the bare minimum: 1) calling genocide by its name, 2) having an explicitly anti-zionist public stance, and 3) always naming zionism as both the perpetrator and the root cause of the genocide. anything less than that is cowardly and ahistorical.
conrad being the only one awake on the flight to paris 😭😭 he is so LOCKED IN. not even jet lag is going to stop him from getting his girl back. #TheSummerITurnedPretty