woke DSA comrades: "noooo, I'm not a settler anymore!!!! indigenous people have already been genocided so I'm innocent little baby who you must respect". I always hear these hipsters say their finance imperialist hive is innocent, but I have never once heard them demand for the recognition of indigenous treaties. Worthless opportunists are slime clinging to the sewer of the empire
:yes-chad: yes the American Empire and it's puppets must be destroyed.
Though actually this is the most useless, infantile whineing. Totally on point for a leftcom of course. I suppose what they'd rather happen is for Palestinians to suddenly adopt whatever meme ideology the author believe in (DeLeonism with Arab Characteristics) so the author can finally feel comfortable in their armchair making awful articles about the Middle East no one ever cares about or reads. Leftcoms and being totally ignorant of the material conditions on the ground when criticizing left projects, name a better combo.
Hamas is a left project?
It's not, they are explicitly anti-communist. But they're "good" in that they are fighting against colonialism and imperialism, IMO the primary contradiction.
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Freeing Palestine is a left project. It not like we are literally giving Hamas weapons (like the IDF did decades ago lol), we aren't that important, we're all just clammering on the internet, in which case Hamas deserves your critical support in their resistance against ethnic cleansing since they are the biggest organization fighting against Israeli colonialism and apartheid. Israel sabotaged the PFLP and Fatah so as to give Palestine a "scary" islamist face with Hamas, so getting all liberal about guerilla fighters resisting their annihilation is literally you falling for an IDF op. Don't worry, Hamas isn't going to form an Islamic Caliphate over Israel and kill all the Jews, they are simply fighting to save their nation and people
The general anti appartheid-colonial-settler liberation movement from the side thats being genocided is, even if it isnt spearheaded by a left org rn ( it has been for large parts of its existance tho)
I mean okay, but the quote clearly talks about Hamas, not the whole movement.
whining about Hamas without mentioning that Israel backed it specifically to weaken the Palestinean liberation movement is pretty disingenuous
the article's right that Hamas isn't a perfect, unproblematic, proletarian resistance movement, but they're the only real option Gaza has at the moment
Shit like
I mean the material conditions on the ground are that Palestine should capitulate because they have been completely defeated and there situation is totally hopeless.
and yet... they don't :soviet-hmm: this is what toxic defeatism looks like folks