@JeninYounesEsq There are more serious problems w/ @normfinkelstein's agnostic position on the Ziofascist settker-colonial state that can't be ignored https://t.co/ePMzjGphCr
Iโve now listened to half of this and I can say that my esteem for @normfinkelstein has dropped precipitously.
1) he asks incredulously and rhetorically whether anyone can possibly believe right wingers care about suffering and oppression, dismissively concluding they donโt and all ostensible concern for Palestine is really just about antisemitism. I know a number of right wingers, including @Villgecrazylady and @CurtMills reasonably well and I guarantee they are driven by Palestinian suffering more than concern for America first. They are also driven more by genuine concern than many left-wingers who simply use Palestine to virtue signal and are willing to destroy the pro Palestine movement from within in order to do so.
2) Finkelstein posits America first and concern for Palestinian suffering as antithetical values. Actually, the point Iโve heard many right wingers cogently make, including @TuckerCarlson and @RealCandaceO (who I disagree with on many other issues, btw) is that it is automatically detrimental to America to enable and ratify gross human rights violations. So the two are complementary. We canโt advance our values when we are actively destroying them in other parts of the world.
3) apparently, right wingers do not talk about the holocaust enough for Finkelsteinโs satisfaction, which he believes evinces inherent antisemitism. Isnโt this the same guy who wrote the book of the Holocaust industry? Maybe itโs time to concentrate on the holocaust happening now, not the one that happened 80 years ago, with many others in between, by the way. And given how the Nazi holocaust has been weaponized to kill Palestinians and ironically commit a new Holocaust, I think itโs reasonable to determine weโve discussed it enough and the right lessons havenโt been learned
4) Finkelstein warns about handing your enemies their arguments on a silver platter. He did just that in this podcast.
My essay argues that the colonial Real is not outside history. It names the ontological and perceptual conditions through which colonial reality sustains itself, but also the impossibility of colonial finality:
A ziofascist hasbara account #Gazawood recently circulated videos from a wedding celebration in al-Mawasi, Khan Yunis, falsely presenting them as evidence of โnightlife in Gazaโ to mock reports of mass starvation, displacement, bombardment, and exterminatory genocidal violence that claimed over 73,000 Palestinian lives in Gaza, including 20,000 children.
Read the latest commentary buy Jamil Khader.
https://t.co/g8BYNZ2xdj
Come join scholars, students, organizers, artists, and social justice activists at the #Palestine is Global Conference at #OPAL for critical conversations on Palestine, Ziofascist settler-colonialism, race, necro-imperialism, resistance, and global solidarities.
I will be presenting an expanded version of my recent #MiddleEastCritique article examining #ลฝiลพekโs liberal-Zionist position on the Gaza genocide, and how he reproduces the epistemic foreclosure of Ziofascist colonial violence ..
His primary concern becomes the reactions, ironies, and interpretive ambiguities surrounding his own symbolic position within Ziofascist discourse.
The narcissism of Western Marxists!!
#Slavojลฝiลพekโs latest Substack once again reveals how his position on the #GazaGenocide remains deeply anchored within #Ziofascist liberal intelligibility:
https://t.co/x0x4PXp4wg
Palestinian existence recedes into the background, while the genocide appears primarily as a crisis in the ethical and symbolic self-understanding of Ziofascist actors rather than as a material structure of colonial extermination organized against Palestinians themselves.
This refusal to confront the colonial structure of Zionism is not confined to anti-establishment media commentary. It also appears in some corners of Western critical theory, some of which has been identified with Western Marxism.
Read the latest article by Jamil Khader.
https://t.co/xpeVToAlgv
This refusal to confront the colonial structure of Zionism is not confined to anti-establishment media commentary. It also appears in some corners of Western critical theory, some of which has been identified with Western Marxism.
Read the latest article by Jamil Khader.
https://t.co/xpeVToAlgv