Sat 2 Mar 2024
“Alex McDonald’s When They Speak Israel, reviewed here by Steve Grant, explains to all of us how to engage. His basic assumption is that while some Zionists are dyed-in-the-wool racists or ethnonationalists, most are not. They sincerely believe they oppose racism but have been taught that support for Israel is justified — if not a solemn moral duty.”
Here’s the thing: I don’t care why a Zionist believes what they believe. As a subject-of-empire under the settler empire that bankrolls the Zionists, I have no reason to care why a settler believes what they do-- I only have reason to oppose their settlement in every manner I can muster with as little loss as possible until I have nothing left to lose.
Fuck would I want to actually hold ‘civil’ dialogue with one of those exported crackers or their waterbearers for?
Note: this may not work for Amerikans, Australians, and other settler-colonial people, who understandably think that if Israel is next, they’re next…
Personally I just don’t speak to them
Listening to others, empathizing and earning their trust, and then being insistent about facts is the only proven remedy to any kind of tribalism. Doesn’t matter what tribe.
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