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Ziggy's avatar

I don't think that the DSA kinder are driven by any particular sympathy for Palestinians. It's just that they represent the negation of what they hate. They exist in a Manichean world driven by Rousseauvian fantasies: noble savage good/white man evil; nature good/tricknology evil; imagined society good/existing society evil. I call it the "America Worst" movement. Anything identified with America is bad; anything in opposition to America must be good. Israel is pretty easy to identify with America.

Lord knows, there is plenty of evil in technology, existing society, and, uh, America. But their negation is not an unalloyed good.

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Susan Feiner's avatar

Max, you write in part: “failure of Western nations to offer any place of refuge.”

Very true & sickening … before the war.

After the war … not true. FDR/Churchill/DeGaul offered refuge to the roughly 600k survivors of the camps. The religious leaders of America’s Jewish communities shot that plan down bc they wanted the survivors to go to Palestine … so they (the Zionists) use torture, violence & the threat of starvation to get the Jews in DP camps to sign up for Palestine.

If you are demanding historical grounding for the discussion leaving this part out is both sloppy & a-historical.

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