... It’s because, as Palestinian activists and scholars Haneen Maikey and Lana Tatour have pointed out, a common pattern in progressive Israeli spaces is that Palestinians can provide labor, translation, lived experience and trauma to feed the analysis of Israeli Jews, but cannot be equal partners who get to do the analysis side by side and set the agenda together.

TIL isrealis are more like white Americans than I realized

Human rights come from Christianity. Rights in general is a Western obsession. It is a religion which most Westerners believe everything is structured in, but not the reality. When you think of it this way, it is a thing that can be used cynically to feign morality. As such, don't rely on the unreliable. Consider the powers that be. Power shapes the world. You are either ruled by it, or you are fighting it.