Includes fruitful comparisons with the response to anticolonial rebellions of ages past.

  • Southern Boy@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Yeah she kinda sucks she already got blasted over her whole October 7th pearl clutching. I have a soft spot for a lot of Occupy Wall Street people don't get me wrong. David Graeber actually really got me into a lot of the stuff I read now with debt.

    I sometimes seriously think she's some kind of fed like Zak Cope who uses quite intelligent and well-researched work to segue into recouping radical political theory to attack US rivals, but with the way she plugs her book she's probably just some kind of un-self aware low empathy self-obsessed type person. Israel is part of her identity and seeing Hamas infringe on her fantasies of a kinder, gentler apartheid state hurts her deeply.

    • hypercracker
      hexagon
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      2 months ago

      I will look up some of her writing about october 7th. Here's a piece she wrote on October 11th so we'll see: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/11/why-are-some-of-the-left-celebrating-the-killings-of-israeli-jews

      • OgdenTO [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        Naomi Klein is on the board of JVP and supports BDS. Yes, she's a liberal, but she's not a Zionist

        I haven't read anything by her lately. Did she change her mind?