As we watch countries across the world drop US investments like hot potatoes, we need to remember that they are not anti-American. They are pro-democracy.
Columbia University seems not to understand that when their students call to divest from Israel due to Netanyahu’s genocide in Gaza, they are not anti-Israeli or anti-semitic. They are pro-life.
I can support the Israelis protesting Netanyahu and I can voice my horror at the IDF’s indiscriminate killing of Palestinians and still be a stalwart supporter of Judaism.
All Israeli policies against Palestinians mirror the policies established in the US. Kill as many as possible, relocate the survivors to reservations, clap debilitating policies that kill any possibility of economic advancement, cause massive, indiscriminate death because the US is, at heart, afraid of acknowledging any First Nations’ contributions to this country.
Netanyahu does not represent all Jews. He doesn’t represent all Israelis. He represents a small, vocal minority in a country that has seen generations of war because this small portion of the Israeli population does not want to share.
When I look at the history of Israel, when I study the geopolitics in which Israel is located, I see a whole bunch of people who keep tripping over their own egos, holding on to grudges that have long since had any meaning and are acting like toddlers. ‘But, they were mean to us first!’ ‘But, they stole our land!’ ‘But, we were here first!’ ‘But …’ It has now shifted to Israel acting like the colonial US, perpetrating genocide on the Palestinians since Israel always holds all the miliary might.
The Israeli leadership is not unlike US leadership at the moment. Netanyahu is an aging dictator. Krasnov is an aging dictator. Netanyahu called for and got a genocide. Krasnov … sigh … dammit, I was having such a good day.
Enough. You are both pretty.
Pro-Palestinian ≠ anti-Semitism. Being pro-Palestinian is merely a call for a suppressed, oppressed population crying out for escape from genocide.
Pro-American ≠ pro-coup.
Do not obey.
Illegitimi non carborundum.